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28 February 2008
How old were you when you got engaged? →[More:] Multiples are fine, of course, and this includes any and all broken engagements.
23. Married just a few weeks shy of 25. It didn't seem super young at the time, but now I look back and realize what a baby I was. I'm glad I waited until 30 to start reproducing, though.
I met my fh at 23 and don't remember ever being engaged....there was no "will you marry me" moment and I didn't have a ring. We just started talking about a wedding somehow. We were married right after I turned 26.
When I was in second grade, we were going to throw a wedding for a friend and her dog. The friend backed out, so I decided to marry her dog instead. We made very pretty braided engagement rings out of metallic ribbon. I backed out at the last minute, though. I was superstitious enough to believe that play-acting a wedding would mean that I was somehow spiritually wed to this dog.
occhiblu, that sounds like the strange feeling I get when people get married in a theatre or on a stage. Like it's not real. I bothers my little superstitious vestigial islets of langerhan or whatever they are.
I didn't think we were going to have a "will you marry me" moment, because we were already planning the wedding. But he surprised me by pulling the down on one knee trick one beautiful day in West Virginia. It was awesome. And he looked relieved when I said yes!
7 and 23. :) Although the second time wasn't so much a proposal as, "I bought you this ring off ebay" a few weeks after we started planning the wedding.
CitrusFreak- I couldn't imagine getting married when I was 19. I was 20 when I met Mrs. Doohickie. Just after my 21st birthday, it was time. When the time comes, it's there. That simple.
29. Married at 30. Divorced at 34. However, our total sum relationship was 10 years of living together and that's what I am claiming... otherwise it sounds like I was an idiot.
31 and not technically engaged, although we've had "the talk" and it's just waiting on my buying a ring. Weird, I'm so much less freaked out by it all than I ever thought I'd be.
33, though it wasn't really an engagement engagement. We got married less than a week later and I turned 34 13 days after the "wedding".
Long story short - it was the only way we could live together in Canada since I was (and still am) a US citizen and the mister is Canadian. I'm still waiting for the real proposal and the real wedding.
28, but it wasn't exactly an engagement - we'd been talking about it for ages and then decided we were going to do something about it. Telling our friends and family we were getting married meant that we got off our arses and did something about it. There was no proposal and no ring, and I'm fine with that, though some people are a bit perplexed by it.
34 for the second. And he proposed without a ring, and I didn't care. The only person who made me feel strange about that was one girlfriend. But this is a woman who dictated the size, shape, and color grade of her diamond, so she was a unique case.
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