Hey all-- just an intro thread so we can get a sense of each other and what our weddings will be like.
Ages of you and Fi:
How long you've been together:
Professions or if in school, what you're studying:
Any fur babies or real babies?
Wedding date:
Wedding location:
What style of wedding (size, type of meal, or whatever)?
Fun fact about yourself or your relationship:
"I'm not a rude bitch. I'm ten rude bitches in a large coat."
Re: Getting to know you!
How long you've been together:7 years and 3 months
Professions or if in school, what you're studying: he is an Engineer and I am a One to One with disabled Pre-k students.
Any fur babies or real babies? A dog
Wedding date: May 24, 2015
Wedding location: Highlawn Pavillion West Orange NJ
What style of wedding (size, type of meal, or whatever)? Aprox 130 ppl sit down
Fun fact about yourself or your relationship: We are complete opposites but are able to understand each other.
-We've been together for 5 years
-I'm currently working on my masters degree in social work.I plan on being a child welfare case worker.
-We have one cat who we love as if she were our real child.
-We haven't booked a venue yet but we're hoping for May 24th
-The wedding will be in Portland, Oregon. Hopefully downtown overlooking the river. I'm touring the Portland World Trade Center on Monday. From the pictures I really love it.
-We'll probably have about 125 guests. We'd like a formal evening wedding. My colors will be dark purple, dark blue, and a little bit of dark green. We're planning on having a buffet.
- Interesting fact: My FI is currently working abroad and won't be back until October
Ages of you and Fi: I'm 27 and FI is 26
This is fun!
My proposal was perfect--I had no idea it was happening, either! It was on Christmas Eve (it sounds cliche but we are both RNs and I got stuck working both Thanksgiving and Christmas this year and I was being a grump all season about it and I think he used Christmas eve as a way to make me happier about working Christmas Day haha!) so we were headed to my parents' house for Christmas eve lunch and we stopped by his parents' house on the way and then he drove down a side road, which wasn't uncommon for him to do, and it leads to my favorite old stone bridge (think "ye olde new england") and so we got out of the car because it was an uncommonly nice day for December in Massachusetts, and then he's talking to me about our love and how much he loves me and how he wants to spend more Christmases with me and start our own family and traditions some day and he says wonderful things like this a lot to me, which is nice, so I didn't think anything was out of the ordinary, until he's suddenly down on one knee with the ring shining in my face haha! I burst into tears, it was incredible. And of course our parents knew this was what was happening and they were all at my parents' house with champagne and we all had lobster rolls for lunch. It was just so perfect.
He had done SUCH a great job of throwing me off for so long that there was NO way I would have thought it was happening when it happened. I knew we were going to get married, it was just a matter of when. And he definitely succeeded--all he wanted to do was completely surprise me, and he did!