stellavision Posted July 16, 2008 Report Share Posted July 16, 2008 I'm engaged! The man I love proposed to me while we were on vacation in Italy -- a fitting end to a wonderful trip full of great art, good food, and romantic moments. I'm enjoying the blissful time between when he asked me to be his wife and when I get to tell my parents there will be no mention of god at the wedding! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thales Posted July 16, 2008 Report Share Posted July 16, 2008 Awesome news! Congratulations, Stella! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~Sophia~ Posted July 16, 2008 Report Share Posted July 16, 2008 Congratulations! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
softwareNerd Posted July 16, 2008 Report Share Posted July 16, 2008 Congratulations to the two of you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve D'Ippolito Posted July 16, 2008 Report Share Posted July 16, 2008 A disappointment to all the other bachelors around no doubt. Hopefully you won't need body armor the time you explain to your parents the ceremony will be Male-Bovine-Excrement Deficient. Congratulations! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adrock3215 Posted July 16, 2008 Report Share Posted July 16, 2008 Approximately when is the wedding (assuming you already know)? Many couples like to have a long engagement period. That never appealed to me, and my wife and I were only 'engaged' for a month before we had our wedding. Anyway, congratulations! Sidenote: Where did you visit in Italy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khaight Posted July 16, 2008 Report Share Posted July 16, 2008 I'm enjoying the blissful time between when he asked me to be his wife and when I get to tell my parents there will be no mention of god at the wedding! Do stick to your guns on that one. Your wedding is for you and your husband-to-be, and it should reflect your values. Nobody else's. In my case, I've always been annoyed by the way most wedding ceremonies present love as selfless. When I got married, my wife and I wrote our own ceremony and the very first line was "Love is a profoundly selfish emotion." I could feel my mother wincing in the audience, and to this day I don't care. My wedding, my values, expressed my way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adrock3215 Posted July 16, 2008 Report Share Posted July 16, 2008 I could feel my mother wincing in the audience, and to this day I don't care. Nice. The problem is when she gets up to offer a toast and includes some worn altruistic bromides, as my mother did at my wedding. That one had me wincing in the audience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stellavision Posted July 17, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 17, 2008 Approximately when is the wedding (assuming you already know)? Many couples like to have a long engagement period. That never appealed to me, and my wife and I were only 'engaged' for a month before we had our wedding. Anyway, congratulations! Sidenote: Where did you visit in Italy? We went to Rome and Florence and had a great time. I could have spent all day looking at Michelangelo's David, but had to content myself with about twenty minutes of solid admiration. As for the wedding date, probably June of next year. I'd love to do it sooner (I've waited for him for almost five years!), but we do want to take a honeymoon immediately after the wedding, and we pretty much have the same issues scheduling that as we did scheduling our Italy trip this year: no more vacation time left this year, he'll be studying for the CFA exam from February to the first weekend in June, and I'll be training for the NYC marathon from July to November. We could do January, which might happen if we're able to save a significant amount of money by doing so, but so far that hasn't been the case as much as I thought it would be. As I've said to everyone who asks, it's more about crossing off months on the calendar that don't work than about choosing a favored date! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pianoman83 Posted July 17, 2008 Report Share Posted July 17, 2008 Congratulations!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K-Mac Posted July 17, 2008 Report Share Posted July 17, 2008 I hope you two have many, many more happy years ahead of you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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