Speed Bumps

Posted Saturday, September 26, 2009 4:06 PM

Kevin asked me to marry him months ago but we weren't considering ourselves engaged because of the lack of ring. Now we know this doesn't make us engaged or not but we just figure when he could afford a ring, we could start planning and make the announcement. We decided that we wanted to do the wedding sooner rather than later and were very reliant on his job to be able to get the ring soon and start saving for a summer wedding, but his job situation has faltered. Granted after the bad news of a contract not being renewed we got better news that it may be only temporary.

If this is the case he will only be sparatically employed until April and I am currently unemployed too. Though I am looking, I am also taking the maximum amount of credits, I may not be able to work much. Let's not forget that the pay will probably be minimum wage so I will not be making much to add to our fund. Sadly this means that our summer wedding may not be a reality. We want to have the wedding we want not just what we can afford.

Other speed bump has been in part of my family. If you looked at the page you can tell by the pictures that there is a significant age difference between the two of us. This is frowned upon by my mother and her husband, and my brother and his wife. I was in both of their weddings, my opinion on both of their spouses irrelavent. However, my brother may not even show up and my mom refuses to even meet him. Luckily my father and step mother are excited for me and have the stance that they want me to be happy, if he is what makes me happy they don't care about the age difference. They do want me to realize the things that may come from it, such as less time together, public criticism, and all of that, but that if he and I can deal with that more power to us.

I am glad that they have this stance because I am planning our wedding long distance. I am at school in Tennessee and he is in Missouri, and we are having the wedding in Seattle. This is going to be fun!