So a pastor proposal huh... I'm glad that even though the pastor was involved in your proposal and marriage, that you and your husband have been married for many years....
How many?
Yes, at the time I just thought the pastor was being spiritual and helping us understand the Bible. I don't really begrudge it too much. He was kind of between a rock and a hard place, I suppose, my husband asking to be baptized and all. I wasn't asking to be baptized because I had already been baptized in the titles. The pastor more or less told me I was going to be rebaptized when my husband was baptized. He just said "We may as well baptize you too." I had no idea why or what he was talking about, I just went with the flow.
So, anyway, there was pressure on us to get married and we kind of looked at each other and shrugged and got married. No relatives were present. I do wish it had been done differently but I never really regretted it either.
We've been married 26 years. We're gettin' old as the hills.
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Ha... oh she got over it just fine... she just moved on to the next available boy... she enjoyed the chase more than anything else....
Funny store about my sister is this... a year or so after my husband and I married, my sister met this boy who had red... well orange hair.. he absolutely adored her, and chased her around like a lost puppy with his tongue hanging out. She was so mean to him, and she said she would NEVER marry someone with red hair, and definitely would never marry him.
However, she liked fancy cars. So, when he found out this helpful information, he somehow went out and bought a fancy Corvette, thinking it would impress her.... and it wasn't long until she was riding around with him in this fancy car, and next thing I knew they were engaged.... lol.
So, I guess for her (because the church did not approve of wedding rings) her proposal gift was a Corvette....
Our family still laughs about this story, and my sister hates us bringing it up, but.... tis true, and she knows it, and it is just a hoot to think about how she ended up marrying someone she said she NEVER would, even if he were the last man on earth...all because of a fancy blue Corvette...
And they are still happily married today, 16 years later....
Yes, at the time I just thought the pastor was being spiritual and helping us understand the Bible. I don't really begrudge it too much. He was kind of between a rock and a hard place, I suppose, my husband asking to be baptized and all. I wasn't asking to be baptized because I had already been baptized in the titles. The pastor more or less told me I was going to be rebaptized when my husband was baptized. He just said "We may as well baptize you too." I had no idea why or what he was talking about, I just went with the flow.
So, anyway, there was pressure on us to get married and we kind of looked at each other and shrugged and got married. No relatives were present. I do wish it had been done differently but I never really regretted it either.
We've been married 26 years. We're gettin' old as the hills.
Wow! 26 years, that is awesome! I've seen sooo many people with all the fancy weddings, and an incredible amount of $$ spent to get married... and the marriage doesn't last, and then we hear the stories posted on this thread of simple proposals and marriages that are lasting to this day.... it lets me know that what makes a marriage work isn't the dollar amount spent in a proposal gift or a wedding ceremony, or a fancy honeymoon... but it depends on the commitment that was made ....
One thing I've learned in our years of marriage, is that love brought us together, but commitment to each other keeps us together. There are days when the "lovey dovey" feeling you felt in the beginning is nowhere to be found, but the commitment you made to each other stands, and so you see each other through the rough places and your commitment stands and holds the test of time.
Wow! 26 years, that is awesome! I've seen sooo many people with all the fancy weddings, and an incredible amount of $$ spent to get married... and the marriage doesn't last, and then we hear the stories posted on this thread of simple proposals and marriages that are lasting to this day.... it lets me know that what makes a marriage work isn't the dollar amount spent in a proposal gift or a wedding ceremony, or a fancy honeymoon... but it depends on the commitment that was made ....
One thing I've learned in our years of marriage, is that love brought us together, but commitment to each other keeps us together. There are days when the "lovey dovey" feeling you felt in the beginning is nowhere to be found, but the commitment you made to each other stands, and so you see each other through the rough places and your commitment stands and holds the test of time.
Yes, commitment is what makes marriage work. Someone on this thread wrote about their differences (was it Amanah?) and I thought uh-huh! Yes, my husband and I are quite different in many respects, but if we were just alike that would get boring. LOL! My husband and I have definitely had our share of fights. But we've always loved each other. It seems too, in the last few years we've just sort of settled into a comfortable place. When we were younger, we fought more. When the marriage was younger, there was always this tension that is gone now. It is nice. It's like "okay, you are you and I am me. No more trying to change each other..."
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Ok...I think mine will probably win for least romantic proposal...LOL
We'd only been dating about 6 months, and I just found out that after years of disappointment in my previous marriage, I was against all odds 7 weeks pregnant.
My health insurance didn't cover any maternity issues, and they wanted to do an ultrasound because of "advanced maternal age" (Pshaw...I was only 36).
So my husband got down on one knee and presented me with the ring we had just picked out and said "Michelle, will you do me the honor of becoming my wife and sharing my insurance benefits?"
To which I dramatically responded "Yes! Yes! A Thousand Times Yes!"
I threw the wedding together in 3 days, and we actually got married on Veteran's day. (I'm sure there's a joke in there somewhere!).
We just celebrated our 2nd anniversary last month, and are a very happy little family. It certainly wasn't what I expected in this season of life, but of course now I can't imagine it any other way.
Ok...I think mine will probably win for least romantic proposal...LOL
We'd only been dating about 6 months, and I just found out that after years of disappointment in my previous marriage, I was against all odds 7 weeks pregnant.
My health insurance didn't cover any maternity issues, and they wanted to do an ultrasound because of "advanced maternal age" (Pshaw...I was only 36).
So my husband got down on one knee and presented me with the ring we had just picked out and said "Michelle, will you do me the honor of becoming my wife and sharing my insurance benefits?"
To which I dramatically responded "Yes! Yes! A Thousand Times Yes!"
I threw the wedding together in 3 days, and we actually got married on Veteran's day. (I'm sure there's a joke in there somewhere!).
We just celebrated our 2nd anniversary last month, and are a very happy little family. It certainly wasn't what I expected in this season of life, but of course now I can't imagine it any other way.
Ok...I think mine will probably win for least romantic proposal...LOL
We'd only been dating about 6 months, and I just found out that after years of disappointment in my previous marriage, I was against all odds 7 weeks pregnant.
My health insurance didn't cover any maternity issues, and they wanted to do an ultrasound because of "advanced maternal age" (Pshaw...I was only 36).
So my husband got down on one knee and presented me with the ring we had just picked out and said "Michelle, will you do me the honor of becoming my wife and sharing my insurance benefits?"
To which I dramatically responded "Yes! Yes! A Thousand Times Yes!"
I threw the wedding together in 3 days, and we actually got married on Veteran's day. (I'm sure there's a joke in there somewhere!).
We just celebrated our 2nd anniversary last month, and are a very happy little family. It certainly wasn't what I expected in this season of life, but of course now I can't imagine it any other way.
That is very romantic to me.
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2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
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