January 2010 Weddings
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Poll
So, I'm home again for a snow day, and I'm bored, so I'm putting together a poll haha.
I figure that since it's our anniversary month, we could share some wedding stuff! I know that most of this has been shared in the past, but it's fun haha.
1. How did you find the knot?
2. How long before the wedding did you post on the message boards?
3. What made you pick January?
4. How long was your engagement?
5. Engagement story:
6. Three things that have changed about your life since getting married:
Re: Poll
1. How did you find the knot? A friend introduced me to it when she was trying to pick her bridesmaid dresses.
2. How long before the wedding did you post on the message boards? Maybe about a year, I don't really remember.
3. What made you pick January? When we first picked the date I was in grad school in a program that ate up my summers too, so January was the only time we'd have a block of time to do a wedding and honeymoon, back to back, which was important to us.
4. How long was your engagement? 15 months
5. Engagement story: He proposed while I was home for a mutual friend's wedding. He made arrangements w/ another friend to do a photoshoot for us so we'd have pics (we were long distance at the time). He proposed during the photo shoot, 3 months earlier than we'd agreed was appropriate, so I was very surprised!
6. Three things that have changed about your life since getting married:
*We moved across country
*I'm a SAHW now
*He works normal hours and we see each other more in a day than we did in a month while we were engaged and living together.
1. How did you find the knot? Google, and it got good reviews in a bridal magazine
2. How long before the wedding did you post on the message boards? I didn't find the forums until about 5 months before the wedding, I probably lurked a little while before posting
3. What made you pick January? It was the only month where he was guaranteed to be in Texas in 2010
4. How long was your engagement? 10 months
5. Engagement story: He followed one of our colleges traditions for all the ROTC cadets. He proposed under our Century Tree, its branches were filled with lights and there were flower pedals. Afterward we walked out through a saber arch.
6. Three things that have changed about your life since getting married:
* I am a SAHW
*We have money which is a nice change from college lol
*We don't live near family and are experiencing a real winter
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1. How did you find the knot? A friend was browsing before she was engaged. I was also getting pretty antsy about getting engaged, so I looked at it to start getting ideas.
2. How long before the wedding did you post on the message boards? Probably about 6 months before the wedding. I think I found the boards through those "hot topics" at the bottom of each page. then, I eventually got to the local and club boards
3. What made you pick January? We got engaged in April 2009, so summer/fall 2009 was too soon. Then, my brother was going to be studying in Italy in spring 2010. He left the end of January, so that was it!
4. How long was your engagement? 9 months
5. Engagement story: DH surprised me with a cruise, and proposed on the first night.
6. Three things that have changed about your life since getting married:
we moved in together, and I was finally living without the help of my family.
we adopted our baby girl pepper.
i've learned how difficult it is to keep up a household.
1. How did you find the knot?
i was googling and remembered seeing the magazine somewhere, so i googled that and voila!
2. How long before the wedding did you post on the message boards?
not long after we got engaged. i discovered the community boards right when we were looking at venues. my first post was probably december 2008.
3. What made you pick January?
new years day seemed like a great way to start the new year, i liked the date, it was a friday, it was winter, and again, voila!
4. How long was your engagement?
a few days shy of exactly 13 months.
5. Engagement story:
DH impulsively bought a ring while we were on a cruise and proposed a few hours later (burning a hole in his pocket?)-it was our next to last night on the trip.
6. Three things that have changed about your life since getting married:
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...uuumm.............
we went from renting to owning
we jointed our accounts
i go by a different name now?
...srsly, not all that much has changed...which has been really, really nice. we knew what we were getting in to, knew what it was like to live with one another (and had already battled through our clashes) and were already living as though we were married. DH never wanted a wedding, he simply wanted to go to the JOP bc he already felt we were married and that a piece of paper wasn't going to change that. and for the most part, he was right!
I think I was expecting a lot more to change than actually did, and I'm very happy about that. I'm not sure exactly what I was expecting to change though. It's like the same life, only better now.
1. How did you find the knot? One of my BM's mentioned to go to it for ideas. That's where I stumbled on the message boards.
2. How long before the wedding did you post on the message boards? Not really sure, maybe 9-10 months. I mainly lurked and didn't post much.
3. What made you pick January? I always wanted a Christmas wedding. Our first choice was Dec. 19th, but that was the week of my and two of my BM finals so we ended up moving it to a week after New Years. It lucked out that all the Christmas decorations and spirit was still around.
4. How long was your engagement? 1 day shy of 13 months.
5. Engagement story: He tricked me in thinking I was going shopping for Christmas gifts for the family. It isn't uncommon for him to shop last minute for them so I didn't give it any thought. So I met him after work at his place and started to go over the shopping list to get a game plan put together. While doing that, he then asks me, "So what do you want for Christmas? (the dreaded question I didn't want to hear from him), a snowmobile helmet or jacket, or a ring?" I ended up giving him a dirty look and said "Do I have to answer that?" and went back to look over the shopping list. He ends up coming towards me (I was on the other side of the island in the kitchen) and puts his hands on my shoulders with a serious look on his face and says "seriously." I of course said "really?" and he says "yes". So then some more conversation took place about where we are going shopping for the ring (he didn't get one ahead of asking, we talked some time earlier that he would ask first and we would pick it out together afterwards) and the rest is history. I was jumping out of my skin and couldn't get to the store fast enough (it was an hour drive).
6. Three things that have changed about your life since getting married:
-no more living out of a suitcase on the weekends (I still lived in my own place during the week)
-I became a landlord (was unable to sell the house at a decent price)
-I became a mom of a cute mini daucshound and lost my last furbaby kitty.
**sorry about the long narrative.....
1. How did you find the knot? I think I just stumbled across it with a Google search or something.
2. How long before the wedding did you post on the message boards? Year, year and a half maybe? I was posting before there was a January 2010 board.
3. What made you pick January? It was do it then or wait several years. Wait? Um, no.
4. How long was your engagement? Year and a half.
5. Engagement story: We had already booked the venue and he hadn't proposed yet. I was just waiting for him to get the ring and actually pop the question. At the time he was driving to Buffalo to visit me every weekend. It was a 90 degree day in June and he usually changes out of his work clothes as soon as he got into the house, but he kept them on and said we were going somewhere. Dress pants and a long sleeved button down in 90 degree weather - yeah I knew something was up. Also, the huge ring box shaped bulge in his pants were kind of a giveaway too. We drove to our favorite park, he got down on one knee and proposed. I don't remember what he said b/c I was bawling a ridiculous amount.
6. Three things that have changed about your life since getting married: More time together! The addition of our lovely furbaby Mittens. I've now lived in a lot more places that I would have otherwise.
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1. How did you find the knot?
I found out about the knot through my SIL who got married a year before me.
2. How long before the wedding did you post on the message boards? I joined the knot in fall 2008 which was shortly after I got engaged. More than anything I would lurk I did not start posting much until our month board was created, so probably like a year or so before the wedding
3. What made you pick January? I had always wanted a winter wedding and with my school schedule it worked well since I was on break before the start of my spring semester.
4. How long was your engagement? 16 months
5. Engagement story: It was the weekend before I started my grad school program and we decided to go to Baltimore for the weekend. The whole car ride down I was obsessing over the fact that we were not yet engaged and it seemed like every billboard I saw had a picture of an engagement ring on it. To make matters worse when we checked in the girl at the desk was wearing an engagement ring which was exactly like what I wanted. When we got up to the room I went to freshen up...when I came back into the room I sat on the bed and MH said that he really wanted us to start our life together next thing I knew he was down on one knee saying that he wanted our life together to start now. I was completely shocked! We then walked to the harbor and celebrated...it was perfect!
6. Three things that have changed about your life since getting married:
1) my name, this is still taking some getting used to. I still have trouble signing my new name.
2) We have a joint checking account
3) We are now homeowners!
1. How did you find the knot? My SIL used the boards when she was planning she and my brother's wedding, it sounded fun!
2. How long before the wedding did you post on the message boards? Probably about a year. I lurked on my local board for a month, I stayed away from the national boards.
3. What made you pick January? Process of elimination. With DH's job, the fall of 2009 was out, so we skipped ahead to spring 2010, when his sister would be graduating college, and didn't want to get married around Easter or Lent, so we settled on January.
4. How long was your engagement? A year and almost 2 months.
5. Engagement story:DH proposed on Thanksgiving day in Central Park. We had dinner together at home around lunchtime, and planned on going into the city for ice skating and a show. He popped the question overlooking Wollman Rink, and then we went to see Avenue Q.
6. Three things that have changed about your life since getting married:
My name changed.
We got our furbaby, Loki.
We're seriously planning on trying to have a baby soon, instead of talking about it like it's a someday in the distant future kind of thing.
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haha...when we picked january, I remember thinking, can I really plan a wedding in 8 months! (we had 8months left by the time we picked jan)
2. How long before the wedding did you post on the message boards? Almost immediately after getting engaged, on my local. I had the damnedest time finding a venue.
3. What made you pick January? It was the only time of year we could find a venue that fit our entire guest list within our budget.
4. How long was your engagement? One year, two months and one day
5. Engagement story: He told me we were going out to dinner to a place we always wanted to try, then left to run some (very weird) errands. When he got back, he said we had reservations for 7pm (he NEVER made reservations, but I was still clueless) so we had to leave at 6pm. I got ready while he cleaned up the house (weird, again - I was still clueless). When I came out to our living area at 6pm, he was sitting in the dark (weird also. I'm dumb) and had a stuffed animal, box and card for me because he "felt bad he had to work at the last minute" the night before. I read the cute "I love you card" and opened the box to find a t-shirt with "Future Mrs. Ourlastname" on it - when I turned around, he was down on one knee. Shortly thereafter my parents, MIL and FIL came in to celebrate with us (which is why he was cleaning and sitting in the dark - the lights were the parents' signal to get ready).
6. Three things that have changed about your life since getting married: My name, H no longer works nights (because he doesn't need insurance since he's on mine)...and we file taxes jointly now...? But nothing big at all - we already had combined accounts and owned a house together before getting married, so everything stayed wonderfully the same!
January 2, 2010
EDD October 10, 2013
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