My boyfriend and I have been talking about getting engaged for a long time. We've been together for five years and we feel that it's about the right time to start the process of becoming married. If we were to get engaged soon, the wedding date will probably be around March 16, 2018, the day before I turn 21. He will be 23 when we will get married. We have both already graduated college and he has a steady job. He has his grandmother's engagement ring that he is planning to give to me when he proposes, so we already have a ring. I know many of you are going to ask what's the rush? There is no rush. We've just been together for so long, why wait? I know many of you are going to say that I'll be more mature at 25 than 20. But then won't I be more mature at 40 than 25? So I should get married at 40? Or 50? See how that's just a consistent spiral that can keep going? Don't say we'll probably get divorced. Couples that get married at 30 still get divorced every single day. I am completely aware that being engaged is different than dating. Like I said, we already have a date that we're thinking about. I am also completely aware that we will have arguments and rough times. We will get through them just like we have for the past five years. If you have a question, please ask me. Please don't accuse me of something you believe I don't know. Like I said before, my boyfriend and I have been thinking about this for a very long time, so we probably already thought about it.

I am nineteen years old and my boyfriend is about to turn twenty-two. He has graduated college and has a very good, steady job and a nice place to live. I only have one and a half years left of college and the chances of me getting a job right after college are very high. We have been dating for over four years and we have been talking about marriage and getting engaged for a very long time. Our plans are to get engaged now while I'm nineteen but get married after I graduate. My college is already paid for from all of my scholarships, I am only paying for the apartment I live in. So when we plan a wedding and pay for it, there's no college loans we have to worry about. And since we would live in the same apartment after we get married, it would save us a lot of money every month. In order for him to be able to propose to me, he would have to talk to my parents and they would have to say yes. Knowing that they are fine with the idea helps me know that this is the right thing to do. I also love his parents to death and they consider me to be their daughter already. I know I'm going to marry him, so why wait? I'm just curious what everyone else thinks about this idea of getting engaged at nineteen.

Okay, I'm engaged as of 2016 and currently I'm still in high school. After I'm out of high school and graduated because this is my last year - I'm a senior; my fiancé and I plan to have the wedding in 2018 rather than just do it 6-10 months after the engagement. The guest list is set. I just feel that I am my fiancé should invite coworkers but we don't really know the coworkers well. I'm not trying to be a witch and say that they can't come. I'm just curious as well as confused. And it's not like I don't want them to come I just don't wanna go crazy with inviting people. I wanna be careful with that. So I decided to ask this question. The guest list so far has 76 people. Our max is 100. Preferably we want our minimum which is 80.

My boyfriend and I are considering eloping instead of having a wedding. I'm looking for something simple in a wedding band, I would like white gold for the purpose of replating it in rhodium every few years. And I don't want a single rock/gem/stone on it ! None. But instead of a plain circle I would want something like a highway ring or a filigree ring so that it isn't way too bland. This is soooo impossible to find. So simple, yet apparently they only sell them covered in a 1,000 teeny diamonds. Or I found a perfect one but it's yellow gold only. Coating it in rhodium would look terrible when it wears off. (I know it may seem a bit needy, but this is the ring I'll wear for the rest of my life, so it's important.)