My wife and I went to the dominican republic and they planned everything. We paid 3500 for the wedding and 1200 for pictures and a video. That included 8 days 7 nights and airfare. The resort was all inclusive as well. We had a great time and it was well worth it. The best thing was no arguing or dealing with family lol

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Man this was really a year ago? Damn, I'm getting old.

Lol wow I didn't even notice it was that old

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22 years old and engaged? TOOO young bro.

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[quote=NC_Skins;880246]22 years old and engaged? TOOO young bro.[/quote]

22 years old and married. Gonna be 23 next month. As far as the too young thing they said the same thing about Kobe skipping college and that worked out pretty well for him, minus the divorce of course.

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While we are on the subject what is the "acceptable" age for one to get married? And who made that rule?

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[quote=EARTHQUAKE2689;880268]While we are on the subject what is the "acceptable" age for one to get married? And who made that rule?[/quote]


18 by law otherwise whenever you are ready. People try to come up with formulas or rules for love when in reality there is no way to do so.

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[quote=mredskins;880271]18 by law otherwise whenever you are ready. People try to come up with formulas or rules for love when in reality there is no way to do so.[/quote]

Well she hasn't tried to kill me for the insurance money yet and we sleep in the same bed so so far so good.

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[quote=EARTHQUAKE2689;880279]Well she hasn't tried to kill me for the insurance money yet and we sleep in the same bed so so far so good.[/quote]

Then if you are happy all is good.

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[quote=mredskins;880283]Then if you are happy all is good.[/quote]

Yep. Weird thing is we were discussing us having kids the other day.

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[quote=EARTHQUAKE2689;880289]Yep. Weird thing is we were discussing us having kids the other day.[/quote]


And their goes your happiness....just kidding but it will be the biggest test of your marriage.

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[quote=mredskins;880290]And their goes your happiness....just kidding but it will be the biggest test of your marriage.[/quote]

I know right because we both have said we never want any, me mainly because I think I would suck as a dad, but a couple of our friends are pregnant and her brother just had a child so it was a long 2 hour conversation.

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[quote=EARTHQUAKE2689;880268]While we are on the subject what is the "acceptable" age for one to get married? And who made that rule?[/quote]

[url=http://www.divorcerate.org/]Divorce Rate : Divorce Rate In America[/url]


The divorce rate is substantially higher for people that marry at your age. There is no "acceptable" age that I'm aware of. It's about a person being ready or not, and quite frankly most are not as noted by the rates. Believe it or not, many people that marry at a young age change as they get older and often times become different people as far as what they want out of life. That and people miss out of the life they robbed themselves of had they been single.

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[quote=EARTHQUAKE2689;880291]I know right because we both have said we never want any, [I][B]me mainly because I think I would suck as a dad[/B][/I], but a couple of our friends are pregnant and her brother just had a child so it was a long 2 hour conversation.[/quote]


That is a lame reason you just have to love them and have patience. My son is 3 almost 4 he test me as a dad everyday. The past few weeks have been a struggle with him from eating to pooping to sleeping, a lot stems from his 6 month old sister who is now starting to take some of his lime light. Anywho on Saturday morning I was tired and frustrated with him and out of the blue he grabbed his little kids MP3 player and played one of his little kid songs. The lyrics went something like this [I]"can you see the sky in me, can you see past the clouds and see the sky in me." [/I]I doubt he realized the gravity of the song and the MP3 player probably just happen to be on that song when he turned it on but it made me realize; I have been focusing to much on his [I]clouds[/I] of late and not his [I]sky[/I]. We end up having a great weekend together.

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[quote=NC_Skins;880296][URL="http://www.divorcerate.org/"]Divorce Rate : Divorce Rate In America[/URL]


The divorce rate is substantially higher for people that marry at your age. There is no "acceptable" age that I'm aware of. It's about a person being ready or not, and quite frankly most are not as noted by the rates. Believe it or not, many people that marry at a young age change as they get older and often times become different people as far as what they want out of life. That and people miss out of the life they robbed themselves of had they been single.[/quote]


Every couple is different. If it didn't work for couple A that doesn't mean it won't work for you. What s so great about the single life? Yeah those folks may have lost out some of their single life years but they don't live with the regret of not trying.

Again love is nothing you can place rules, formulas, stats, etc... to. It's meaning is different to every single person on the planet.

And if the single life is so great why are most people that are single looking for a mate?

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[quote=NC_Skins;880296][url=http://www.divorcerate.org/]Divorce Rate : Divorce Rate In America[/url]


The divorce rate is substantially higher for people that marry at your age. There is no "acceptable" age that I'm aware of. It's about a person being ready or not, and quite frankly most are not as noted by the rates. Believe it or not, many people that marry at a young age change as they get older and often times become different people as far as what they want out of life. That and people miss out of the life they robbed themselves of had they been single.[/quote]

Well we've been "together" for about 10 years and known each other since 3rd grade. So we've been changing for a while but people who marry older get divorced too. We lived together before getting married too. There pretty much isn't anything we don't know about each other.

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[quote=mredskins;880299]That is a lame reason you just have to love them and have patience. My son is 3 almost 4 he test me as a dad everyday. The past few weeks have been a struggle with him from eating to pooping to sleeping, a lot stems from his 6 month old sister who is now starting to take some of his lime light. Anywho on Saturday morning I was tired and frustrated with him and out of the blue he grabbed his little kids MP3 player and played one of his little kid songs. The lyrics went something like this [I]"can you see the sky in me, can you see past the clouds and see the sky in me." [/I]I doubt he realized the gravity of the song and the MP3 player probably just happen to be on that song when he turned it on but it made me realize; I have been focusing to much on his [I]clouds[/I] of late and not his [I]sky[/I]. We end up having a great weekend together.[/quote]

Let me rephrase that I don't want to blow it so bad that I just avoided it out of fear that I would blow it.

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[quote=EARTHQUAKE2689;880268]While we are on the subject what is the "acceptable" age for one to get married? And who made that rule?[/quote]

My dad always told me to wait until atleast 30. I made it till I was 28 so i guess thats close enough

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I'm going on 37 and getting married in October. This is my first and hopefully only marriage. She isn't too far behind me in age, and this will be her first time getting married as well. It works for us, because we both know exactly what we want out of life, and that the things we both were looking for out of a mate are things that truly mean something to a marriage. I do believe that when you hit your thirties, you tend to have a clearer understanding of what you want out of a mate and out of life itself. That doesn't mean it's any easier finding the right one for you, but its much easier understanding who the wrong ones are, lol!

As far as the feeling of being "robbed" from your single life if you got married in your twenties....I'm not sure I understand that line of thinking either? When a person finds the right one, there is not going to be a sense of feeling robbed - I don't care if you're 20 or if you're 40.

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Yeah if getting married makes you feel robbed of something, and hence regret getting married, then you're with the wrong person. That piece has nothing to do with age.

As for the stats, they don't lie. But you're more than a statistic. You become a statistic on the divorce side of that equation by lacking maturity and having unreasonable expectations going into a marriage. If you're mature enough to understand that you're not always going to be right, that you'll have to compromise financially, that you'll both need time together and time apart, and that you'll need to get on the same page when it comes to children, then you'll be fine.

The stats show high divorce rates for those who marry young because young people are more likely to lack maturity and carry unreasonable expectations than older people. But it's the maturity and expectations that cause divorces, not age. If you're a mature young guy your marriage is infinitely more likely to last than an immature older guy's is.

And of course, same goes for your spouse. She needs to be mature too.

Sounds shallow, but here's the secret to a happy marriage: have satisfying sex, make a lot of money, allow each other your own time & space for hobbies, don't get between her and her family, and don't have kids until you're both ready. Those issues are the deal breakers that cause divorces.

I got married at 24. I felt ready then, and looking back, I definitely was. I was light years ahead of my friends in the maturity department. There's a reason they called me grandpa.

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Good points S10!

Here is a good way to gauge your marriage. Go out and hang with your single friends for a whole night. Do the the bar thing and what not. It is awful! Paying six bucks for a beer, can't hear the person next you, watch them get shoot down by women (if they even try), etc... By 11pm the time I want with my single friends I was ready for bed and my wife. Part of that is my age (38) and the other part is knowing it is much better to be a happy married guy then a happy single guy.

A lot of people think marriage doesn't take work; those people are divorced.

For the record I still hang out with my single buddies but it usually just to go watch a game with them or hang at their house.

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So this thread has gone from wedding planning to marital advise. Its going to be a long off season,

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[quote=firstdown;880690]So this thread has gone from wedding planning to marital advise. Its going to be a long off season,[/quote]

Yep, beautiful isn't it. Glad I'm already married.

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The worst part about wedding planning is realizing how much everything cost and that there's nothing you can do about it.

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[quote=WaldSkins;884869]The worst part about wedding planning is realizing how much everything cost and that there's nothing you can do about it.[/quote]


So true! The sadder part is a year later when even your wife looks back and says that was a waste of money for certain things.

Just roll with the punches it is really their day in the end.

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I had a buddy who spent what we figured was around $100,000 on his daughters wedding and two yrs latter they split. I'll have to say it was one hell of a good time.

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Okay, thank goodness theres already a thread on this because I need to vent. Why the F**K do I need to get fitted for a tux ASAP for an end of March wedding? I'm sorry I'm happy for my friend but *censored* mother *censored* piece of *censored**censored*. Heck they were telling me to get fitted back in July. Seriously why the *censored* do I need to get fitted 10 years before the *censored* wedding? I am not the same size I was back in July, nor August, nor September, etc, etc, etc.
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Okay I'm cool. So yeah, whats the rush to get fitted so early for my friends funeral?

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Do you have wild weight fluctuations?

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I'll have to say my wife was pretty cool and calm through our wedding. I found out 10min before our wedding started that the band (one I played with) thought I was getting someone to play base and showed up without a base player. So I'm on the phone 5min before our wedding calling a someone to see if they could fill in.

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Which base? 1st, 2nd, or 3rd?

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[quote=Mattyk;987339]Which base? 1st, 2nd, or 3rd?[/quote][IMG]http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/24389211/LOLZ.jpg[/IMG]

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[quote=Monkeydad;987321]Do you have wild weight fluctuations?[/quote]

Yes, like I said in the Gym Members thread I've lost 60 pounds since last February. Still loosing albeit at a much slower rate. I was 180 in July when they first told me to go according to my facebook messages and I think that was like the 2nd or 3rd time they asked.

Now I'm 165 and will likely be 160 when late March roles around. Still even if I didn't loose a bunch of weight it would still feel like overkill for any sense of urgency before a month out.