I don't really have too many close friends anymore and need to vent and seek some guidance.. I have been with my boyfriend for 4 years and we have lived together for 3 years. We are each other's best friend, biggest supporter, and we overall have a great relationship, We are 25 years old. I would have been comfortable getting engaged a year ago. We've discussed marriage and talk about it sometimes. I've told him many times I'm ready and want to get engaged and move on to the next chapter already. He's never given me a date or timeline and I'm so sick of waiting around and not getting true answers. In December he told me it would be sometime soon...I was upset he didn't propose on my birthday or Christmas or New Years and then not again on our trip to Hawaii.... the PERFECT opportunity.. all of my friends and family thought he would propose there.. while he was sleeping on the plane back I cried many tears because he didn't. Fast forward to tonight I was talking to him before bed about getting engaged and he was frustrated and said sometime before summer. I don't want to wait another 6-8 months to get engaged. I'm not downstairs annoyed wanting space from him. Will he actually propose when he says he will this time? I don't want to wait any longer, I'm done being patient. I'm so close to giving him an ultimatum which in my opinion isn't the nicest but my ******* god I'm SO hurt and SO frustrated.

My boyfriend and I have been talking about marriage a lot lately. He keeps urging me to pick a ring, style, gemstone, but honestly, I don't want one. How do I tell him no thank you, but still want to get married? I'm just not a jewelry person at all and wear nothing; I don't even have my ears pierced. Or do I suck it up and allow it because it means something to him? Jesus Christ, people are mean! It's not that I can't go to him at all and he knows I don't like jewelry, but this is a WEDDING AND MARRIAGE, something SERIOUS, so this is why I am asking what the best approach is. And it's not like he's forcing me, he's just trying to see if there would be a potential style I would like. God, calm the hell down, idiots. Thanks to the nice people who answered so far, all 2 of you. We talked it over and like the silicone rings. Thanks again for being NICE and piss off everyone that wasn't.

My fiance and I are getting married in May. It is going to be a very simple wedding. There is only going to be a a flower girl, and a matron of honor and a best man. My father passed away two years ago, so there is no one to "give me away" (and I hate that term anyway). I know typically the groom waits at the altar and the bride's maids are escorted by the groomsmen, and finally the father of the bride escorts the bride to the alar. I know I could have a brother or an uncle escort me down the aisle, but what about having my finace--the groom--do the wedding march with me instead of waiting at the altar? My fiance said he would crawl over glass to get our last names the same if that's what I wanted. But I've never known it to be done.