Hello!
I've been lurking for a while so I figured it was time to post something. I'm recently engaged though it's not the most traditional arrangement! My FI and I met in Berlin, Germany. I was working in the city and he's stationed in Germany and was visiting the city for the weekend. We met at a tram stop when I heard him speaking English and everything went from there. I was working for a German company so he was pretty much the only person I got to speak English with! We dated while I was living/working in Germany but when my job ended I had to go back to the States to finish my last semester of college. We originally planned on me moving back to Germany after graduation but there were all sorts of bureaucratic/visa problems with that. We thought about getting married in Denmark (since Germany makes it nearly impossible for non EU citizens to get married) but that was going to take too much time with the bureaucratic procedures and again, my visa might run out. So, now we're having a civil ceremony in the States after Christmas, I'll move with him to Germany, and then we'll plan our religious ceremony/reception for the summertime in my hometown in the US.
Our families and friends are all very supportive and excited, and I expect we'll be having a very military influenced wedding since my father, brother, and grandfather are in the Air Force and all of his groomsmen are in the Army. I'm excited about being in Germany again (I study EU history and have spent half my college career studying in France and Germany) though I'm not looking forward to the adjustment period as I get used to a new place and have to get out there and make friends and start a new life. But it'll be great to be together again!
Nice to meet everyone!
