Sometimes it goes too far...
As my fiancée is discussing this with her friends, and not telling them "don't you dare share this with anyone else", I'll assume it's an open topic and I can discuss it here.
Vicky's Spring Break is the latter part of April. We talked about going somewhere and doing something, and one of the choices was to visit Portland, Oregon and Seattle (Hi, squeakyjackie!). So I made hotel reservations and we were all set.
One of the regular pieces of junk mail I get is from my "casino host" with MGM/Mirage in Las Vegas. The one I got was for the Bellagio...three free nights, X dollars in complimentary play, etc. I mentioned it to Vicky as a joke, and as soon as I said Bellagio her eyes lit up. Even knowing that I'm going to gamble while I'm there (and I get very self-involved when I gamble), she wanted to go and see the fountains. So I cancel the Northwest trip and get Vegas set up.
Any time I say something about "we're going to Vegas", someone always says "oh, are you getting married while you're there?" It's been an ongoing joke that I want Elvis to marry us in Vegas, and Vicky says no way is Elvis going to be there. So we're talking about, of all things, the potential government shutdown and what would be affected, and we worked our way around to "well, if we get married sooner, we can start the paperwork sooner, etc. etc.".
So Vicky and I are planning to get married on Wednesday, April 20th. It'll be a Vegas wedding...the chapel sends a Town Car to take us over to get the marriage license, then to the chapel. There will be a quick non-denominational ceremony with no guests, and then we'll head back to the hotel. (I did not invite Elvis.) We agreed that later, at some point in time when our lives are more stable and we're more settled down, that we will do a formal wedding that everyone can come to. For now, we're going to get the civil ceremony done and get the paperwork started.
Vicky is not pregnant. We agreed not to do such things until we were married...Vicky's family is both Catholic and conservative, and I value my skin enough not to try for children out of wedlock. She had some intense phone conversations with her parents back in Indonesia the last couple of days because they are convinced that she's being pressured to go ahead and get married. (She tells me and them that she's not being pressured.) At this time, both of our families know and are aware. I haven't posted it to Facebook yet because I want Vicky to be able to do that for us, but I am putting it here so that my friends and family here know.
I love her, I'm happy with her, and I'm ready to spend the next 50 years with her.
Vicky's Spring Break is the latter part of April. We talked about going somewhere and doing something, and one of the choices was to visit Portland, Oregon and Seattle (Hi, squeakyjackie!). So I made hotel reservations and we were all set.
One of the regular pieces of junk mail I get is from my "casino host" with MGM/Mirage in Las Vegas. The one I got was for the Bellagio...three free nights, X dollars in complimentary play, etc. I mentioned it to Vicky as a joke, and as soon as I said Bellagio her eyes lit up. Even knowing that I'm going to gamble while I'm there (and I get very self-involved when I gamble), she wanted to go and see the fountains. So I cancel the Northwest trip and get Vegas set up.
Any time I say something about "we're going to Vegas", someone always says "oh, are you getting married while you're there?" It's been an ongoing joke that I want Elvis to marry us in Vegas, and Vicky says no way is Elvis going to be there. So we're talking about, of all things, the potential government shutdown and what would be affected, and we worked our way around to "well, if we get married sooner, we can start the paperwork sooner, etc. etc.".
So Vicky and I are planning to get married on Wednesday, April 20th. It'll be a Vegas wedding...the chapel sends a Town Car to take us over to get the marriage license, then to the chapel. There will be a quick non-denominational ceremony with no guests, and then we'll head back to the hotel. (I did not invite Elvis.) We agreed that later, at some point in time when our lives are more stable and we're more settled down, that we will do a formal wedding that everyone can come to. For now, we're going to get the civil ceremony done and get the paperwork started.
Vicky is not pregnant. We agreed not to do such things until we were married...Vicky's family is both Catholic and conservative, and I value my skin enough not to try for children out of wedlock. She had some intense phone conversations with her parents back in Indonesia the last couple of days because they are convinced that she's being pressured to go ahead and get married. (She tells me and them that she's not being pressured.) At this time, both of our families know and are aware. I haven't posted it to Facebook yet because I want Vicky to be able to do that for us, but I am putting it here so that my friends and family here know.
I love her, I'm happy with her, and I'm ready to spend the next 50 years with her.