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    Seriously, EVERYONE I know is getting engaged this year. What the fuck is going on?

    And why is it making ME want to get married? I rode that ride already and puked at the end. I like my life, sharing a home but maintaining my financial independence. How come everybody else's stupid weddings are making me want one?

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    Because you know it's funny if you wear white?

    Because weddings are pretty?

    Because you know everyone'll give you free stuff and money?

    Because it's ironic?



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    Well, I can't wear white because I'm divorced (although I did wear white at my wedding, and had crazy anal sex the night before, haha) and I doubt people would go crazy giving us shit because they've already been down that road too and K and I are already living together.

    Might have something there on the irony though, I dunno.

    I actually don't like weddings. I didn't have one the first time; we ran off to Hawaii and no one else was invited. To pacify them all, we had a reception when we got back, and it was as simple as wedding receptions can be. I'm dreading all the weddings I'm going to have to go to now that all my friends are getting engaged, but I can't stop thinking about a pretty little rooftop ceremony on the roof of the Peabody Hotel in downtown Memphis. K and I met there, later had our first kiss there... and the view from the roof is amazing. We could have a little chuppah and he could step on the glass and I'd have to try very hard to forget he isn't Jewish... *sigh*

    I'm only getting like this because all you other stupid fucks are doing it. I guess I was a lemming in a past life.

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    Wedding?

    *runs*

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    Wait, you can't wear white if you're divorced??

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    ^^ White is supposedly for virgins according to some old hag that made the rule up (or something like that haha). I'll be wearing a bright purple evening gown if I ever tie the knot

    I second (or triple or third) the WTF with everyone getting married these days. It seems like half of my friends have gotten married recently or are going to in the next year. Either that or they are popping out babies left and right (nothing wrong with that, just a huge change has occured)

    Sadly I too kind of want to get married. I think its because I absolutely love planning parties and decorating cakes. I don't think spending a lifetime with one person has even crossed my mind as the real reason to get married.

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    ANNIE: Millie, how much time did you and Jimmy spend together before he proposed?

    MILLIE: Five hours. We both just knew.
    Do you think I deserve to wear white?

    ANNIE: We all deserve to wear white.

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    I've been wanting to get married since I was 16. Two engagements later... still no dice. Mah male better hurry the eff up!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lady Jade View Post
    I felt the same way last year/early this year. All of my closest friends are either married, or have no chance of getting married this decade. I found some old high school classmates on Facebook recently, and most of them are married with kids! Makes me feel old...
    When I see and hear about highschool classmates being married with kids I have a mini celebration inside. I feel like the luckiest chick in the world.

    The ones who are already married with kids look old and hefty whereas I look hot at 31.

    The classmates who are single and childless look pretty hot too.

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    I want to marry a man with good health insurance.

    Seriously though, marriage scares me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lady Jade View Post
    I felt the same way last year/early this year. All of my closest friends are either married, or have no chance of getting married this decade. I found some old high school classmates on Facebook recently, and most of them are married with kids! Makes me feel old...

    At my reunion last year, a lot of my classmates/pals were married. I'm the 2nd youngest of 6 kids and I'm the ONLY one not married.


    It makes me really sad. Really.
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    I know what you mean. I'm 28 and a lot of the people I went to high school with are married or engaged. Lots of them have kids also. One of my sisters is younger than me and is married, and most of my cousins who are close to my age are either already married or getting married soon. I'm happy being single though. I just hate the pressure from other people who say things like "You're 28-when are you going to find Mr. Right and settle down? You're pretty-you should be able to find someone." It doesn't seem to occur to them that I actually enjoy being single.






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    I got married when I was 19 and got divorced at 23. Been there, done that, too! I don't regret it...I just know now that I want to know the person that I'll be marrying (IF it ever happens) for a long, long, long- ass time before the "M" word is even uttered. I think???

    I don't know what the hell I want! The romantic, old- fashioned, traditional part of me wants to get married again...but the careless, free-spirit in me doesn't want to feel like a "caged animal" once again, either! YIKES!!!



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    ^^^
    I hear you there.

    I am in no rush to get married although I do want to one day.

    Im also sick of my friend who got married last year telling me that everything is soooooo different once you are married. Like nothing that happens in my relationship is important because I am not married. I have been with my bf for longer than she has been with her husband.

    I find weddings boring TBH. First there is the church, then you have to wait a few hours while they get their photos done, then you have to go to the different venue for the reception. It ends up a very long and tiring day. I have been bridesmaid twice also, NEVER AGAIN! That ended up costing me over $1000 each time because we had to buy our own dresses, shoes and all the rest.

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    Marriage would be nice. But for now all I need is a nice man I can come home to each night and fuck the shit out of.

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    Reminds me of what a customer said not to long ago: "you strippers will get married one day." My mouth dropped and laughing sounds came out after that one. What a tard! Gee thanks Mr. Cheapass for that wonderful line of encouragement.

    Marriage is so far ahead of me right now. I want a house, career, a dog, and a whole lotta savings before I get married. Marriage seems so indefinite to me - like the end of MY own era and the beginning of lockdown. I really would just want to marry my best friend.
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    Jaiz, I know how you feel on that one, too! I hate hearing girls swoon about their marriages like they are so much better than me just because they have a piece of paper that says they are binded to somebody. PLEASE!!!

    Once again, as someone who has been married before...it is NOT a bed of roses! It is A LOT of responsibility and you have to sacrifice things just like having a child. I just wasn't ready to put my dreams aside and be "Miss Suzy Homemaker" forever. It didn't help that I was married to an immature, emotionally- abusive asshole, either.

    I just believe that if two people really love eachother, they can be together for a long time, have kids and everything and never get married. Look at Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell...and she still doesn't want to get married!
    Go Goldie!!!



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    OMFG. Where have I been? Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russel are together???? I cant beleive I didn't know that. Overboard means so much more to me now.

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    ^^^LOL!!! I know, I love that movie, too! Yes...they've been together for almost 20 years and they have children together and everything! NOT MARRIED!!!



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    I wanna marry my wife. Now. This minute.
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    Quote Originally Posted by PookaShell View Post
    OMFG. Where have I been? Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russel are together???? I cant beleive I didn't know that. Overboard means so much more to me now.
    Is Kurt Russel the guy in overboard?

    I didnt know they werent married.

    Goldie Hawn is so beautiful.

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    ^Yes...Kurt Russell is Goldie's opposite in Overboard.



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    Quote Originally Posted by TigersMilk View Post
    I really would just want to marry my best friend.

    I did marry my best friend and we have been married for 11 years now!

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    wearing white is a new middle class thing, relatively recent in the history of weddings and marriage. pre 19th century and a fair bit of the 20th really, a woman wore her nicest dress, or only dress, or borrowed someone else's nice dress and the guy did the same with a suit. virginity of the bride was not crucial, especially not in villages.

    but that is a slight digression, although sometimes it is really fascinating how many things people think have 'always' been 'traditional' are quite recent bourgeois additions to separate themselves (bourgie middle class types with aspirations and pretensions) from the 'common people' they were always a paycheck or two away from becoming again.

    when i was in my 20s, i couldn't believe the sheer volume of friends and acquaintances getting married at 19, 20, 22. but then i started closing in on 30 and ran into the exact right guy to marry, so i done it.

    and since he and i got married, several other people we know have gotten married-- the stuff goes in waves. and marriage is beautiful-- maybe that's why everyone's getting married.

    expensive weddings are not beautiful, though-- the wedding industry are jackals feasting on the unsuspecting corpses of women.

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