GTKY

Swazzle · May 2014

We haven't done one of these in a while and with all the new faces and engagements it seems like a good time for it! Thanks for the idea, @foxandbunny!

TK Name:

Age:

Location:

Occupation:

Single/In a Relationship/Engaged/Married:

How Long You've Been Together:

When You Got Engaged (if applicable):

Wedding Date (if applicable):

Real Babies:

Furbabies:

How You Came to be on TK:

[Deleted User] · May 2014

TK Name: allusive007

Age: 30

Location: Suburbs of Denver, CO

Occupation: Landman (I negotiate oil & gas leases for drilling purposes)

Single/In a Relationship/Engaged/Married: Married

How Long You've Been Together: We've been together for 7.5 years, married for 11 months

When You Got Engaged (if applicable): May 7, 2012

Wedding Date (if applicable): June 22, 2013

Real Babies: None...yet!

Furbabies: Remington (an aussie) and Kiki (a tabby)

How You Came to be on TK: I was a BM for one of my besties a few years back and she wanted us to join because they were running a promotion where you could win dresses or something. None of us won, but I got to meet all of you fine ladies!

BreMR · May 2014

This is perfect for a newbie like me, now I can know everyone's back story

TK Name: BreMR

Age:28

Location: St. Paul, MN

Occupation: Lost my job in December but actively looking and going to school to be an elementary teacher.

Single/In a Relationship/Engaged/Married: JUST ENGAGED

How Long You've Been Together: 12 years

When You Got Engaged (if applicable): YESTERDAY!! (turns out it was Hamburger day, what a perfect day for an engagement, I celebrated with a Whopper Jr. and a glass of wine later.. happy engagement )

Wedding Date (if applicable): We've discussed Dec. 2015

Real Babies: 1 six year old daughter named Alyvia

Furbabies: 1 cat Mallie

How You Came to be on TK: I can't remember now, it was over a year ago, we were probably talking about getting engaged and I probably jumped the gun Or I was maybe doing research about cost of weddings to prove to my FI (!) that we could afford a wedding

[Deleted User] · May 2014

TK Name: Southernpeach89

Age: 24

Location: Cumming, Georgia

Occupation: Resourcing Analyst

Single/In a Relationship/Engaged/Married: Happily Married

How Long You've Been Together: We started dating in March 2012

When You Got Engaged (if applicable): Engaged February 15th 2013

Wedding Date (if applicable): November 23rd 2013

Real Babies: None!

Furbabies: We are hopefully getting a puppy in the next few weeks, we are visiting two shelters this week to pick him out.

How You Came to be on TK: I joined TK back in late 2012 when BF told me that he was planning on proposing sometime within the next 6 months and then I found this group of other NEY/engaged/married girls that were awesome calmed my crazy pants down until H proposed a couple months later.

ETA: I spelled my name wrong

Swazzle · May 2014

TK Name: Swazzle

Age: 28

Location: New Jersey

Occupation: Wall Streetish shit. I do trades while watching TV and Knotting.

Single/In a Relationship/Engaged/Married: OMH

How Long You've Been Together: 7 years next month

When You Got Engaged (if applicable): August 30th, 2011

Wedding Date (if applicable): May 4th, 2013

Real Babies: Negative

Furbabies: 2 cats (Bailey and Hailey) and 1 pittie who thinks shes's a cat (Lucy)

How You Came to be on TK: I was browsing engagement rings and saw "Community" and when I clicked, I saw "Not Engaged Yet" and was like OMG! A board just for me! And now you're all stuck with me for eternity.

beanbot2002 · May 2014

Wait...are we all doing this?

labro · May 2014

TK Name: LaPeanut1018 formerly lmhollister

Age: 27 ETA 26. Apparently I have no idea how old I am. I'll be 27 in July.

Location: suburbs of Atlanta, GA

Occupation: Contract manager/negotiator

Single/In a Relationship/Engaged/Married: Engaged

How Long You've Been Together: 3 years (since April 2011)

When You Got Engaged (if applicable): December 15, 2013

Wedding Date (if applicable): October 18, 2014

Real Babies: None!

Furbabies: A 1 year old lab/border collie mix named Cinders. Her little face is my avatar!

How You Came to be on TK: I joined when I was being BSC over getting engaged plus my sister's engagement was also pending and I was excited for her. FI didn't ask me until over a year later but I'm glad I joined when I did because I've loved getting to know the women here! They helped me keep my patience pants on and enjoy life while it was happening rather than dwelling over a pending engagement.

beanbot2002 · May 2014

TK Name: beanbot2002

Age: 34

Location: Ol' Virginny

Occupation: Development Services Technician (Construction permits tech)

Single/In a Relationship/Engaged/Married: In A Relationship

How Long You've Been Together: 3 years/5 years/forever?

When You Got Engaged (if applicable): He says sometime this year

Wedding Date (if applicable): N/A

Real Babies: Bean, 11 and No-Uh, 3 months

Furbabies: AJ the evil guniea pig

How You Came to be on TK: You expect me to remember that? Psssssh! It was probably in a moment of BSC to be honest. Who knows?

minskat30 · May 2014

I've been out of the loop on here for a while (new job, new city, moving, selling home woes and buying home woes) so I'll join in.

TK Name: minskat30

Age: 32

Location: WI

Occupation: Attorney

Single/In a Relationship/Engaged/Married: Married

How Long You've Been Together: 3+ years

When You Got Engaged (if applicable): Gah, its aweful I don't remember the date but about 7 months before we got married (which I remember because I had to plan a wedding in 7 months).

Wedding Date (if applicable): 3/30/13

Real Babies: N/A

Furbabies: 1 crazy 120lb dog

How You Came to be on TK: I wasn't yet engaged and wanted to keep "cool" about it.

Peaseblossom55 · May 2014

TK Name: Peaseblossom55

Age: 34

Location: NJ

Occupation: Financial Compliance stuff

Single/In a Relationship/Engaged/Married: engaged

How Long You've Been Together: 4 1/2yrs

When You Got Engaged (if applicable): 3/20/13

Wedding Date (if applicable): 6/14/14 16 days!!!!!!!!!

Real Babies: none

Furbabies: Bailey Cosmo Darling and Boo our kitties ( 2 were mine & 2 were FI's before we moved in together)

How You Came to be on TK: I was helping out a friend with her wedding and stumbled on NEY I think around the spring of 2011

blabla89 · May 2014

Yay, I like it when we do this! Because it's hard for me to keep up with everyone...

TK Name: blabla89 (formerly lalalaurita)

Age: 25

Location: Atlanta, but I grew up in the midwest

Occupation: Nonprofit marketing/fundraising

Single/In a Relationship/Engaged/Married: Engaged!

How Long You've Been Together: Coming up on 2 years

When You Got Engaged (if applicable): March 2014

Wedding Date (if applicable): May 2, 2015

Real Babies: Nope

Furbabies: Davis Dogglesworth

How You Came to be on TK: When I was BSC before FI proposed. I stuck around because I love the community here.

lilacck28 · May 2014

TK Name: Lilacck28

Age: Will be 25 in a week and a half

Location: Currently DC, but we're moving back home to CT soon

Occupation: Artist, teacher

Single/In a Relationship/Engaged/Married: Engaged

How Long You've Been Together: 3 years September 5th

When You Got Engaged (if applicable): April 5, 2014

Wedding Date (if applicable): May 24, 2015

Real Babies: none. Will wait at least 3 years before trying, maybe a little longer. I love babies.

Furbabies: none Fiance grew up with/ his parents still have a goldendoodle. That's what we want when the timing is a little better.

How You Came to be on TK: I think I was looking at wedding dresses a while back (sometime in 2012?), and it wouldn't let me keep looking unless I signed up.

Hummingbird125 · May 2014

TK Name: Humminbird125

Age: 27

Location: New York

Occupation: Executive Assistant

Single/In a Relationship/Engaged/Married: Engaged

How Long You've Been Together: 3 years and a few months

When You Got Engaged (if applicable): This past Christmas Eve

Wedding Date (if applicable): 5/30/15

Real Babies: Zero

Furbabies: Our shiba inu, Kaya

How You Came to be on TK: An CW of mine (who wasn't engaged at the time), told me she was obsessed with TK and loved reading about wedding stuff, so I started to too.

LizzyTish88 · May 2014

TK Name: CaseFace5

Age: 25 for a few more weeks!

Location: South of Boston

Occupation: Payroll/ Admin assistant in the School system

Single/In a Relationship/Engaged/Married: In a realationship

How Long You've Been Together: it will be 13 years in November, but we did have a year and a half break when we went to college. So basically a long ass fucking time.

When You Got Engaged (if applicable): Not yet..

Wedding Date (if applicable): nope

Real Babies: None

Furbabies: Tessie girl! Our 9 month old lab puppy.

How You Came to be on TK: My cousin was getting married and I wanted to know about Bach parties (dress code, bringing a gift.. etc) and stumbled onto this board. I started posting and then got hooked. I was gone for a while because I had a sucky ass job that didn't allow me to post but I am back!! And very happy to be back!

ShallowSeas · May 2014

TK Name:Severmilli12 or Sev

Age:26

Location:Indiana

Occupation:mental health social worker

Single/In a Relationship/Engaged/Married: Engaged

How Long You've Been Together:year and a half

When You Got Engaged (if applicable): December 1st, 2013

Wedding Date (if applicable): September 6th, 2014!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Real Babies: not yet

Furbabies:an English Bulldog named Watson and a kitty named Reagan Sue

How You Came to be on TK:Came here originally in like 2009 while planning my first wedding. Came back last May when FI and I started getting serious.

cu97tiger · May 2014

TK Name: cu97tiger

Age: 38

Location: Central Maryland

Occupation: Management in the Events industry

Single/In a Relationship/Engaged/Married: Married... WOOT

How Long You've Been Together: Six years next month

When You Got Engaged (if applicable): 7.1.2011

Wedding Date (if applicable): 3.24.2012

Real Babies: Not yet

Furbabies: Not at this time (RIP Casey and Toby)

How You Came to be on TK: I was BSC and so I lurked on TK, but then I found NEY and came out of lurkdom.

GoldenPenguin · May 2014

TK Name: GoldenPenguin (used to be BriSox)

Age: 33

Location: Upstate New York

Occupation: Media Relations at a university in Student Life & Athletics

Single/In a Relationship/Engaged/Married: Engaged!!

How Long You've Been Together: A year & eight months.

When You Got Engaged (if applicable): Last week! 05.21.14

Wedding Date (if applicable): We're discussing fall of 2015.

Real Babies: No thank you.

Furbabies: A Golden Retriever named Violet & a crazy fluffernutter kitty named Brady.

How You Came to be on TK: I was a bridesmaid for my best friend, and you had to sign in in order to look at galleries, so I made an account. A few years later, I was in a relationship that I thought was going to lead to marriage, so I found this board. That relationship ended, but I had found some amazing friends here, so I stuck around, and now they've seen me through sadness, dating stories, and finding my true love with my amazing fiance!!

KeptInStitches · May 2014

TK Name: KeptInStitches

Age: 27

Location: North Dakota

Occupation: graduate student / occupant of Hotel California

Single/In a Relationship/Engaged/Married: Engaged

How Long You've Been Together: 5+ years

When You Got Engaged (if applicable): April 5, 2014

Wedding Date (if applicable): April 25, 2015

Real Babies: None

Furbabies: Two now! My ticked tabby (brown, grey, white, black - white tummy, brown-and-black striped tail) named Eleanor / Ellie / Ellie-belle. His Garfield-cat named Kade / Kadey-cat.

How You Came to be on TK: I was a BM in my former friend's wedding and I started out by lurking to see if the way she was treating me was normal. Eventually I found NEY and just started posting.

Sakalicious · May 2014

TK Name: Sakalicious

Age: 26

Location: Delaware

Occupation:grad student--graduating tomorrowwww

Single/In a Relationship/Engaged/Married: married

How Long You've Been Together: 9 years

When You Got Engaged (if applicable): March 14, 2009

Wedding Date (if applicable): Nov 6, 2010

Real Babies: none

Furbabies: Minnie the wonder-hound

How You Came to be on TK: I joined shortly after getting engaged

Sakalicious · May 2014

@LaPeanut1018 I also keep forgetting that I haven't turned 27 yet...September, woot!

eilis1228 · May 2014

TK Name: weewittlewizabeth

Age: 25... 26 next month

Location: Tejas

Occupation: Customer service rep at a library services company

Single/In a Relationship/Engaged/Married: In a relationship, soon to be officially engaged

How Long You've Been Together: 3 years

When You Got Engaged (if applicable): Not yet. Should be sometime in the next few months.

Wedding Date (if applicable): We've talked about October 30, 2015

Real Babies: This is a baby-free zone

Furbabies: None yet

How You Came to be on TK: He mentioned an October 2015 wedding a while back, and I got all excited and joined TK.

KeptInStitches · May 2014

Congrats, sak!

thetimewillcome · May 2014

TK Name: thetimewillcome

Age: 29

Location: Pittsburgh

Occupation: Patent Attorney (former Electrical Engineer)

Single/In a Relationship/Engaged/Married: In a relationship

How Long You've Been Together: Almost 2 years

When You Got Engaged (if applicable): N/A

Wedding Date (if applicable): N/A

Real Babies: None

Furbabies: 2 kitties: Nibble and Dot

How You Came to be on TK: My boyfriend mentioned getting married so I was looking at engagement rings (even though he'll pick it out himself) and so I had to make an account to look through some of the galleries. I found these boards and thought, awesome.

Sakalicious · May 2014

Thank you, @KeptInStitches! It has been a long 5 years haha

evadorrough · May 2014

TK Name: travelcoffeemug0

Age: 22

Location: Seattle

Occupation: boring office job

Single/In a Relationship/Engaged/Married: in a relationship

How Long You've Been Together: a year

When You Got Engaged (if applicable): n/a

Wedding Date (if applicable): n/a

Real Babies: none

Furbabies: none

How You Came to be on TK: I first discovered it when I was 18 and in luuurrve and BSC. That relationship ended (thank god), and then my sister got engaged, which brought me back here for planning fun.

loves2shop4shoes · May 2014

TK Name: Loves2Shop4Shoes (Shoes)

Age: 26

Location: Chicago

Occupation: Marketing for a Travel Company

Single/In a Relationship/Engaged/Married: Married

How Long You've Been Together: Since September of 2007...so roughly 7 years

When You Got Engaged (if applicable): August 14, 2010

Wedding Date (if applicable): August 4, 2012

Real Babies: We are discussing pulling the goalie this winter... There, the cat is out of the bag!

Furbabies: Two cats, Annie (A 2.5 year old black cat) and our brand new addition, Tessie (an 8 year old Snowshoe cat).

How You Came to be on TK: I knew DH had bought the ring, and I was going slightly BSC waiting for my proposal, which happened 2 months later.

AuroraRose41 · May 2014

TK Name:AuroraRose41

Age:23

Location: San Diego, CA, but born and raised in Upstate NY.

Occupation: Electrical Engineer

Single/In a Relationship/Engaged/Married: In a Relationship

How Long You've Been Together: It will be 3 years in October!

When You Got Engaged (if applicable): n/a

Wedding Date (if applicable): n/a

Real Babies: nope not for a long time

Furbabies: none yet, but we get to dog sit for our parents who both have awesome dogs.

How You Came to be on TK: I am a bridesmaid in a friend's wedding in 2015, and wanted to know the etiquette of being a bridesmaid, what I should and shouldn't be expected to do, and who throws a bridal shower/bachelorette party. I started lurking on the boards and came across NEY and decided to join!

doubleSS07 · May 2014

TK Name: doubless07

Age: 35

Location: Texas

Occupation: Contract Manager and Order Processing - livin the dream (sarcasm font)

Single/In a Relationship/Engaged/Married: Married

How Long You've Been Together: 7 years in December

When You Got Engaged (if applicable): October 27 2012

Wedding Date (if applicable): August 17 2013

Real Babies: none

Furbabies: 2 Siamese cats Dexter and Winston

How You Came to be on TK: I was the MOH in my BFF's wedding and I was looking at bridesmaids dresses

Blue & White · May 2014

TK Name: Blue & White

Age: 29

Location: Florida

Occupation: teacher (had an interview yesterday for a job down here but currently teaching online)

Single/In a Relationship/Engaged/Married: Married!

How Long You've Been Together: Like 6.5 years

When You Got Engaged (if applicable):2/9/13

Wedding Date (if applicable):4/12/14

Real Babies: Nope. FI wants a biological, I want an adopted one. We will likely do one of each, but if we have issues conceiving, we won't be likely to go to any extraordinary means to get pregnant. I'm terrified of needles.

Furbabies: Nope. I'm allergic to cats and scared of dogs, lol. I'm lame.

How You Came to be on TK: Uh I think one of my friends was engaged? Or I was just BSC. Who knows.

bethsmiles · May 2014

TK Name: Bethsmiles

Age: 23 (24 in a month!)

Location: Colorado

Occupation: Sad Post-Graduation Job Seeker (I hate applying for jobs!)

Single/In a Relationship/Engaged/Married: In a relationship

How Long You've Been Together: 5 years 8 months

When You Got Engaged (if applicable): n/a

Wedding Date (if applicable): n/a

Real Babies: none

Furbabies:none

How You Came to be on TK: A mix between BSC-ness and helping out a friend who was planning a wedding

bethsmiles · May 2014

Blue & White said:

Real Babies: Nope. FI wants a biological, I want an adopted one. We will likely do one of each, but if we have issues conceiving, we won't be likely to go to any extraordinary means to get pregnant. I'm terrified of needles.

BF and I are the same way! We've compromised on one of each, although we might have 3 and do two biological and one adopted assuming we have no problems conceiving.

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