Comments | atalie: On being engaged

atalie

On being engaged

Sep 17, 2007 14:08

Being a bride-to-be has not come easy to me. The night of the engagement I totally killed the romanticism by giggling in glee BEFORE Marcus asked me. It was romantic, it was sweet, but all I could do was giggle. We love telling our engagement story to people, because it is so us! It’s goofy and beautiful at the same time ( Read more... )

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sunjoy September 17 2007, 22:22:41 UTC

my eyes darted to this entry on my friends page because I thought you were talking about being engaged *with life*, or *the world and people around you*, or *the present moment* or with *your true self*. Of course, as it turns out, the entry indeed is about all these things ( ... )

atalie September 18 2007, 03:25:13 UTC

I love where your mind went with the title of "on being engaged". In many ways being engaged ( and your words) have made me be engaged with life, society, present moment and myself ( ... )

vampireplacebo September 18 2007, 00:33:34 UTC

First off, uber congrats :) I'm so jealous when my friends tell me they're getting married.

I hear you when you say you want a non-traditional wedding. I want that myself. While my boyfriend has not officially popped the question yet, he's told me he will. So I wait, shivering in anticipation. I've already got some of the details already taken care of in my head, including what my dress will look like. Corset top with a long flowing skirt in silk and satin. Red and black, though I'm not sure yet if I want a red top, black bottom, or black top, red bottom. And definitely no church.

And to be proposed to in Germany! Oh, I'm even more jealous! I hope everything is lovely for you for a long time to come :) *throws confetti*

atalie September 18 2007, 03:29:17 UTC

Thanks!

Awww so he is just torturing you and bidding his time? Marcus made me wait too! I told him I wanted to get married LAST summer!

We are not doing church wedding either, and we are writing our own ceremony. I really wanted to get married in red, but after trying this dress http://www.anjolique.com/collection.aspx?Fav=&SelImage=2&Page=10&New=&Type=1 (style 930), I became open to gold dresses ( and am now not outright rejecting white, but don't really want to do white.)

I WISH I had thought about weddings before Marcus proposed. I am feeling a bit overwhelmed now and having to learn EVERYTHING about weddings while planning is scary!

vampireplacebo September 18 2007, 04:19:02 UTC

Oh that dress is stunning!

kathleenforsure September 19 2007, 02:45:18 UTC

I just celebrated my 4 year (married) anniversary with my husband. More than ever I've been seriously contemplating marriage and what it means.

Your last paragraph summed it up perfectly. I'm not gonna lie - I misted up a little bit.

Thank you.

atalie September 19 2007, 04:05:59 UTC

First of all, glad that something I wrote could touch someone :)

Second, wow has it been 4 years already? That's amazing!

So how come you have been seriously contemplating marriage and what it means? Not that I think that's a bad thing! I hope that four years into my marriage I am still contemplating the meaning of it, I hope to be contemplating it on my 50th anniversary!

So any new insights on marriage that you care to share?

kathleenforsure September 20 2007, 01:03:10 UTC

Oh, and congratulations, of course!

atalie September 20 2007, 03:21:35 UTC

I TOTALLY relate to the whole " wanting to pick up and can't". I had a few "break downs" not that long ago, realize how much I haven't done because of this relationship. I don't regret that I didn't pick up and apply to let's say grad school in the UK, but the fact that I never thought of it because I had to stay here because of Marcus, REALLY REALLY REALLY got to me. I think the only reason I got over it was that I realized that if I had wanted to Marcus would have gone wherever I wanted to go, he would have followed me ( ... )

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