Engagements, weddings, & babies | 2026

[elektra blue]

Apparently, the dream boy of many is now engaged...

My condolences to all the fans who were hoping to marry him

i'm not a jealous person

 

[4everchan]

i'm not a jealous person

Your avatar has never looked as accurate as today.

 

[elektra blue]

Your avatar has never looked as accurate as today.

a Rogue cat is not necessarily a liar

 

[4everchan]

a Rogue cat is not necessarily a liar

especially one carrying a knife

 

[elektra blue]

especially one carrying a knife

it's in plain sight!

 

[4everchan]

it's in plain sight!

and your point is ?

 

[skylark]

OT, but I’ll never understand these 2+ year engagements, unless the couple wants a very specific setting that is difficult to book. Six months is plenty.

When I went with my (then-prospective) daughter-in-law to shop for a wedding dress, it was either January or February 2024, and she was shopping for a July wedding. When she said so, the sales girl was shocked! "So soon?" LOL. Times have changed. But I was so pleased with how low-key, comparatively, my son and dil planned the wedding and carried through with their intention.

 

[Diana Delafield]

When I went with my (then-prospective) daughter-in-law to shop for a wedding dress, it was either January or February 2024, and she was shopping for a July wedding. When she said so, the sales girl was shocked! "So soon?" LOL. Times have changed. But I was so pleased with how low-key, comparatively, my son and dil planned the wedding and carried through with their intention.

Good for them. My husband and I got engaged in February 1983 and married in September. We would have had the wedding sooner, but we were both in fourth-year university and had final exams coming up in April, whose results were vital for our provisional acceptance into grad school. So we just agreed to get married, I started wearing my engagement ring, and everything else got put on hold until after graduation ceremonies in May. Then my mother and I buckled down to a summer of planning and it wasn't all that frantic. As my mother told my prospective MIL, "She's had her wedding planned for years. She was just auditioning candidates for the role of bridegroom and finally found the right one for the part." Fortunately his mother had a terrific sense of humour and loved this.

 

[Mariott]

Anna Shcherbakova got engaged to her boyfriend Artem Shakirov (a former hockey player and businessman).

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[DizzyFrenchie]

Good for them. My husband and I got engaged in February 1983 and married in September. We would have had the wedding sooner, but we were both in fourth-year university and had final exams coming up in April, whose results were vital for our provisional acceptance into grad school. So we just agreed to get married, I started wearing my engagement ring, and everything else got put on hold until after graduation ceremonies in May. Then my mother and I buckled down to a summer of planning and it wasn't all that frantic. As my mother told my prospective MIL, "She's had her wedding planned for years. She was just auditioning candidates for the role of bridegroom and finally found the right one for the part." Fortunately his mother had a terrific sense of humour and loved this.

Congratulations!
"The wedding was very much like other weddings, where the parties have no taste for finery or parade; and Mrs. Elton, from the particulars detailed by her husband, thought it all extremely shabby, and very inferior to her own. "Very little white satimman, very few lace veils; a most pitiful business! Selina would stare when she heard of it." But, in spite of these deficiencies, the wishes, the hopes, the confidence, the predictions of the small band of true friends who witnessed the ceremony, were fully answered in the perfect happiness of the union."
(Final paragraph of Jane Austen's Emma.)
For a viewpoint beyond Mrs Elton's:
"Mrs. Bennet found, with amazement and horror, that her husband would not advance a guinea to buy clothes for his daughter. He protested that she should receive from him no mark of affection whatever on the occasion. Mrs. Bennet could hardly comprehend it. That his anger could be carried to such a point of inconceivable resentment as to refuse his daughter a privilege without which her marriage would scarcely seem valid" (from Pride and Prejudice)
The "inflation" during the latest decades, of the wedding ceremonies and parties in Western culture, seems to make us forget that in a wedding, the most important are the newlyweds themselves, not their clothing or that of their families and friends, or the making of a capital social event. I think that I've seen a survey showing an inverse relation between the cost of the rings and the duration of the marriage?
Sorry for this digression!

 

[elektra blue]

and your point is ?

i'm not hiding anything? so maybe i'm not lying either?