OH SHIT BITCHES, I'M ENGAGED

this is fucking awesome. hi guys!

High fucking fives, groovy guy!

Fully fucking stoked for you & yr fiancé!

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!!!!

<3 <3 <3

being married fuckin rulz

OTM

I liked it so much that I did it twice!

Congratulations! You and Henry will be an excellent couple!

Oh wait.

Seriously, many well wishes!

pics or it didnt happen

aw yeahhhhh

BUCK BUCK BUCK BRUCKA BRUCKA BIIIIG UPS TO TOP SHOTTA JJJUSTEN

ok sons of bitches, here is a photo:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4021/4547540762_e9f1d43299.jpg

love

:-)

awesome man

<3

<3 !!!

Good job, John! (Congratulations!)

hey, congrats dude!

braggin

nice job <statement>

congratulation!!

congratulation!!

― I went to your blog and I didn't feel anything (Curt1s Stephens), Saturday, April 24, 2010 2:59 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

so dope

Congratz!

Loving this news! Congratulations John and K!

Well done jj!

yay<3<3!!!

Mazel Tov. Wishing great happiness for you both.

Congratulations!

congrazzles!

Couldn't happen to a nicer dude! Well done!

<3 yay!

nicely done, congratulations!

this is the shit imo

So cool, congrats to you both!

You're engaged, Nick's getting married to-day - spring has well and truly mf-ing sprung!
Congrats!

What Ned Raggett said.

what role did the sewer play

also wd etc

do not wd them, u should respect their engagement and monogamy and shit

Congratulations!

Congrats to you both! Well done, and nice picture.

It couldn't happen to a nicer fellow (one of us! one of us!)

that picture smacks of too much cuteness. :-) congratulations! now let the marriage plans commence. lol

Dammit why did I go to sleep

Congratulations! This seemed inevitable to me from the first time I saw you two together but it's somehow still more exciting to hear this news than I thought it would be. No jokes, I am really happy for both of you.

Okay now there will be jokes.

Any woman willing to take a chance on you must have the heart of a lioness. Congratulations to you both.

:) :)

: D

:DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

conjjjjjjjjjjjjrationulations jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj.

That photo's so damned cute. You guys look how I feel when I kiss my wife.

^^ ditto

Totes awes,j&k!!

<3

Good show, sir!

good work j0hn justen!!!!!

congratulations! awesome news + great pic

was she surprised??

Awesome! Congrats good sir!

congrats man, all the happiness to you

congratulations!

Awww. Congratulations.

Yeah, tell us how it went down, JJ!

Congratulations!

this rules -- congrats to you both!

holy fuck!! this is so cool yo, i'm really excited 4 u :-)

Congrats my dude, I buy y'all beers some time.

Thx to everyone! Will be back w/ details once I shake this insane champagne hangover.

What a lovely thing! Congrats JJ!

Naw, champagne hangovers are the fucking worst.

finally henry wont have to live with the shame of having unmarried parents

seriously so happy for you JJ

sorry to hear about the hangover but still A++++ news!

srsly massive congrats so happy for u

lol
posted, read sunny's almost word-for-word. still, really, this is awesome

awesome

congradulations

john you seem like a great dude and i'm really happy for both of you!

looking at a venue tonight.

this shit is expensive yo

oh yeah, maybe I should have warned you about that

the first few tricks are pretty soul-shattering but just keep your eyes closed and repeat "the wedding day will be worth it" to yourself until it's over

if you're creative, you can find an affordable venue that is also cool. the area where i would recommend not trying to scrimp is catering - those people do way more than just serve food, they're like the point people at the venue, set up tables and chairs, decorate, etc.

i.e. the venue for our wedding was technically a photography studio but they rent it out on weekends for events, basically a huge awesome open space with windows all around, views of downtown, hardwood floors, etc., and much cheaper than an OFFICIAL WEDDING VENUE

just my 2 cents

otm this is key

Re the caterers I mean

depending on the size of the wedding, the amount you pay on the stuff you need to bring in (tables, chairs, linens, silverware) can obliterate what you are saving

First, congratulations. Very great news. Henry must be thrilled.

Second, remember the positive vibe and warm feelings you got when you put the ring on her finger. Those must carry you through the wedding planning process.

Third, I echo the statements immediately above - things you cannot scrimp on are food and booze. And, based on the list of responders you have here, I am sure you could put together a good-to-legendary playlist for y'all's nuptials. We had a DJ, and it was great. A band is a luxury, if you can afford it. There is no need to go into the horrible world of "wedding space".

depending on the size of the wedding, the amount you pay on the stuff you need to bring in (tables, chairs, linens, silverware) can obliterate what you are saving

― it means "EMOTIONAL"! (HI DERE), Wednesday, May 5, 2010 12:03 PM (28 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

that's true, we only has about 60-65 people at our wedding, and the caterers also supplied the tables, chairs, linens, etc., which may be behind my thought that paying for good caterers is important. this was also a fairly casual wedding. if you're having a really big or really traditional wedding, my advice may not apply.

We really wanted to go that route (there were two venues that had significance to us, one being on campus and the other being a function room at Symphony Hall) but the catering costs for bringing in everything necessary to actually seat/serve the approx. 175 ppl expected at the wedding was like triple what we ended up paying by going to a hotel (which also btw gave us a deal on the place where we stayed for our honeymoon).

what's the usual attendance at a US wedding? was 175 small, medium or large HI DERE

Mine was around 100, which I've found to be about the median. My older brother's was somewhere in the neighborhood of 300, if I remember correctly, and I was mistaken for him several times.

I've also been to very small weddings, which were nice and intimate, but you better get along with close to everyone there, or it may not be very fun.

Depending on who you talk to, 175 is medium-to-large. One of my friends had 350 ppl at his wedding, which I thought was just insane.

first off: congratulations! Second: first venue I looked at was what I thought was a reasonable $1200 (I'm in Toronto) - then I found out the approved caterer would charge $20,000 for 150 people! Sigh. Now we're looking at legions.. Much cheaper, still potentially nice... :(

Do it outside?

Have a potluck?

I completely understand why people do this, but I personally am 100% AGAINST potluck weddings. I wasn't going to ask ppl who have traveled thousands of miles and were staying in hotels to attend my wedding to also bring food for 10 ppl with them.

Well, no; for one thing, your chances of food poisoning must skyrocket.

i'd say 300+ is maybe the norm over here, but then i have like 60 first cousins.

oh i just realized i promised to tell the whole story and then never delivered.

so i pick up the ring (its dope btw, thanks to my impeccable taste) on friday and sneak home in the afternoon to hide a bottle of growed-up champagne behind all the veggies in the fridge crisper, because i am a classy dude. call k at work and ask her if we have anything planned for the night because i am tired or rundown or whatever, and she says no, so all systems are go right?

10 minutes before i leave work, i get a call from K saying "Great news! You know that dude that my brother knows with the sewer camera? he can come over tonight and check our sewer line!"

yay

so im thinking to myself "ok how the fuck do i manage to surreptitiously steal a bottle of champagne back out of the fridge and stow it somewhere so she cant find it, and what if she decides 'tonight is a great night for salad' and omg wtf aggggh." decide to just hope for the best and head home, get this stupid camera thing done and then get to the proposal business.

when i arrive there is some monstrous smoke belching diesel engine trailer thing attached to a work van, and hoses going in and out of my house and around the yard and this dude and ks brother adjusting dials and knobs and whatever. turns out that there are root masses in out sewer line (which happens all the time, and matt (camera dude) just so happens to be on call for his job w/ some industrial service company so LUCKY ME hes just going to go ahead and clean it out for us with this power washer sewer domninating thing. i run inside and observe that K is not eating a salad, think about kamikaze run on the fridge and making a break for it but decide against it. out of obligation, go down into the basement in the hopes that i can speed this process up.

4 HOURS PASS

i am now completely freaking out, ive got a $$$$ ring in my pocket and i have now ducked into the bathroom and put it in a ziplock bag to avoid the "oh hey look heres a ring, sorry about all the shit on it." possibilities. matt is, infuriatingly, some sort of OCD sewer completist and will not rest until the job is done. finally he finishes, or we run out of water, or whatever, i go upstairs and do like some sort of speed shower and come downstairs to K lounging on the couch (still happily salad free) and her brother, who has gotten roped into doing tons of assistant shit wrt sewer cop slash and burn program against his will sitting in a chair. K pulls me aside and suggests that we buy him dinner for all his hard work. i resist throwing a wad of cash at him and shoving him out the door, and we get ready to go. at the last minute, K says "im sorry guys, im just exhausted, why dont you go ahead and get food while i just hang out here and watch tv", which is totally acceptable and fine but i have A RING IN MY POCKET AND STEALTH CHAMPAGNE AND SHIT GODDAMN ok fine off we go.

i eat efficiently and quickly, we down margaritas, i take out my phone and check the time about every thirty seconds. eventually my crazed wild-eyed not talking at all or making not really any sense in the rare moments of conversation gets the best of him and i drive him home.

its 12:30. when i arrive i am greeted by the smell of chicken breast unaccompanied by any sort of dressing sign so we appear to be all good. K is watching reruns of the biggest loser on demand, and i fetch her and say something brilliant like "uh i have a surprise for you and um its in the vegetable crisper" which gets the expected baffled reaction, she comes back into the room and i drop to a knee and pop the question after telling her that i thought about doing it in all sorts of fancy places but fuck it (yes i did incorporate "but fuck it!" into my marriage proposal because i am what i am) this is our house and we love it so where better. and she says yes while henry looks on approvingly.

then we blast music and drink until 4, and i get up the next morning in blinding hungover pain and work for 7 hours while idiots play out of tune guitars at high volumes.

pretty much the perfect engagement story for me imo.

xposts galore

prob going to have somewhere in the 100-150 people range

"uh i have a surprise for you and um its in the vegetable crisper"

this is fucking beautiful

greatest proposal story ever. Hope your sewer is all better!

if you can top my wedding ceremony (a Justice o' Peace office in Reno, officiated by a gentleman with two hearing aids who sounds exactly like Peter Cook in the Princess Bride, room crammed with family/friends all staring at walls and ceilings trying not to lose their shit from laughing at lovely gentleman)... then you will be 100% win. But you kind of already are, what with Henry and that proposal and shiny new fiancee etc.

one big bonus for us is that one of our close friends is an events planner by trade so in exchange for not being put in her 11th wedding party of the past 2 years (no exaggeration) she is going to be our point person on deciphering all this crap and negotiating w/venues.

also i know this guy with some sound equipment that might come in handy, just saying. will def be hiring dj iPod to also save some $$$, plus that way it is possible that if i get drunk enough beforehand K will do her father daughter dance to ICP's "Miracles"

Didn't see this before, but congrats jjj!

good story :D

i'm psyched about ipod DJing too - full, glorious control! Wish I knew a dude with a soundsystem. Any dudes with a soundsystem in Toronto want to hook a sister up? /worthashot

your engagement surprise is lovely, it's nice to have a story! My fiance asked me 'can I ask you a question' while we were at a concert and I drunkingly said 'of course I'll marry you' which threw him off, and me when I realized I'd cut him off during his actual proposal.. haha

Wow, jj, what a story! "but fuck it" should be included in part of all of life's most tender moments imo ^_^

Having got married ten days ago, all I'll say is this; do it YOUR way and fuck anyone who tries to influence YOUR day. We potentially upset a lot of people by having exactly the wedding we wanted, but now it's over and it was amazing, all bar one idiot distant relative on Emma's side recognizes that we had an awesome day and it was for and about us, not anyone else.

^^^^^^ super fucking OTM

also iPod DJ????????? omg my dream of hearing "Ventolin" at a wedding reception finally will come true!

now to figure out how to not invite any of my teeming mass of shitheel cousins

oh god the politics of wedding invitations

they need to teach classes in that in college

the venue for our wedding was technically a photography studio but they rent it out on weekends for events, basically a huge awesome open space with windows all around, views of downtown, hardwood floors, etc., and much cheaper than an OFFICIAL WEDDING VENUE

― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, May 5, 2010 5:58 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

u didn't get married at gary's loft in nyc did you?

nah this was in chicago

k :)

J, your parents aren't going to make you invite your cousins, are they? They must know you don't get along with them.

(I mean, my parents made me invite some half-uncles I don't even know, but it ended up being fine because it was only 3 ppl and only one of them came to the wedding)

my mother-in-law insisted on doubling our invite list to include friends of her late father who had not seen my wife in prolly 20 years. her reasoning was that even if they don't show, PRESENTS!!!!!

tbf that's a pretty good reason

lol yes

thought so too, but i was immune to it after the third brita filter

loooooool

my favorite moment along those lines was when Macy's accidentally deleted our registry after half of the items on it had been purchased; fortunately, we had a print-out of what we'd registered for, but no record of what people had actually bought, so we ended up with doubles of practically everything

(which was okay, because we just took the doubles back and used the return money to fill in holes in our registry)

we understand, registry is the name of your dog

and we...understand that...doubles is

money...is

a little help here

buttfuck

congratulations jjjusten

I didn't see this until now. Large congratulations time is for you!

Couldn't happen to a better dude

I did not see this, congratulations.

do we have any photographic evidence of henry's reaction to the news yet?

do it YOUR way and fuck anyone who tries to influence YOUR day

goes without saying but THIS x10000

I mean my parents invited a few of their friends to our wedding but they had been so cool w/everything and the friends were cool dudes (one played the organ in the ceremony) so this was not a bad thing.

my pro-tip is splash out on the photog - for me, the whole wedding experience was a stressful blur, but at the end of the day we had these really lovely photos that captured our real happiness at being together.

we are in nz right now on our honeymoon - highly recommend it if you're looking for a honeymoon destination!

This thing I wrote about our wedding;

On April 24th 2010 we got married. This is a group for pictures of our wedding!

After nearly 9 years together, the last 2 & 1/2 of that living in sin and sharing a mortgage, we finally got married.

As with everything else in our relationship, we took things casually and did it our way; the dress was from Etsy, I wore jeans, we had a casual barbecue for lunch, no one wrote a proper speech, I tightly controlled the music, Emma made (and I iced) 5 dozen cupcakes because neither of us like wedding cake, Matt & Jim fell over drunk, and we tried to find a way to get Cosmo to be a ring bearer. It was perfect.

Bar rings and clothes, we did the whole thing for a smidgeon over a thousand pounds; the last thing we wanted was for it to be a competitive or stressful wedding. Our philosophy was: If you plan everything, you spend the day wondering if things are going to plan, rather than enjoying yourself. So we planned barely anything. (We only checked what happened at the service on the Monday before!)

Apologies to friends and relatives both near and far who we didn't invite; it's not that we don't love you or didn't want you there, it's that, frankly, we couldn't afford to invite any more people and trying for anything bigger would have made it into a day that we didn't really want. We would both have felt dreadful dragging people to our little corner of the South West and then spending barely any time with you because we were stretched too thin. Also, I'd have killed someone if I'd had to ice any more bloody cupcakes. We promise we'll see you as soon as we can though; now we're married we're resolving to be more sociable!

The service was 150 yards from our front door, the barbecue and party about 600 yards. We both laughed through the service because it's better than crying. We sat in a pub garden all afternoon in the sunshine drinking wine with our closest friends and siblings. I did the Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) dance. Emma looked absolutely beautiful. We both grinned all day. All the cupcakes got eaten and we walked home at half past midnight in the first pattering of (very, very) light rain to fall in Exeter after 17 days of unbroken sunshine. It was perfect.

The volcanic ash now appears to have cleared and we look as though we'll be able to fly to New York on Thursday as planned (the only thing we did plan). Between now and then we're relaxing and trying to figure out how being married is any different to just being in love. (It isn't.) (Except we both wear rings.)

We have been absolutely taken aback by the generosity and kindness of everyone who had anything to do with our wedding; from the staff at the City Gate and Larkbeare House, to our parents and families, and everyone who spent time with us or wished us well. We didn't ask for gifts because after 9 years it seemed cheeky, but we've been gobsmacked. People go loopy for weddings. It's beautiful. We just thought we were signing a bit of paper and going down the pub.

So thank you, everyone who was involved, in any way at all. Our wedding day was amazing, and you helped make it that way. We're thinking of getting an annulment so we can do it all again. (Joke!)

Particular thanks to Jack, who worked through the day with a cold to help us capture these amazing photographs, despite being an animator not a photographer. Maybe we should set up business doing this "professionally". I'll do the shouting. And I'm sorry about Jim. He likes a party.

Oh, yeah, one last thing. The playlist; it was cool as.

Feel Good Inc.GorillazDemon Days
A-PunkVampire WeekendVampire Weekend
FaithMichael, GeorgeLadies & Gentlemen: The Best Of George Michael
Since I Left YouThe AvalanchesSince I Left You
You And Me SongThe WannadiesYou And Me Song
Don't You Worry 'Bout A ThingWonder, StevieInnervisions
Brimful Of AshaCornershopWhen I Was Born For The 7th Time
Frontin'Williams, PharrellThe Neptunes Present... Clones
Hey Ya!OutkastThe Love Below
Eye KnowDe La Soul3 Feet High And Rising
Mr. BrightsideThe KillersHot Fuss
Once In A LifetimeTalking HeadsRemain In Light
Where's Your Head AtBasement JaxxThe Singles
I Get AroundThe Beach BoysThe Very Best Of The Beach Boys
Your WomanWhite TownWomen in Technology
Move On UpMayfield, CurtisMove On Up
RepeaterFugaziRepeater + 3 Songs
Where It's AtBeckOdelay
I'm A BelieverThe MonkeesI'm A Believer
The Magic PositionWolf, PatrickThe Magic Position
I Turn My Camera OnSpoonGimme Fiction
Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)?The BuzzcocksSingles Going Steady
Freak SceneDinosaur Jr.Freak Scene
I Want You BackThe Jackson 5The Ultimate Collection
The ReflexDuran DuranSeven and the Ragged Tiger
ConnectionElasticaElastica
Ghost TownThe SpecialsGhost Town
Big Time SensualityBjörkDebut
Monkey WrenchFoo FightersThe Colour And The Shape
Teenage KicksThe UndertonesTeenage Kicks
Common PeoplePulpDifferent Class
Girls & BoysBlurParklife
ManeaterFurtado, NellyLoose
LisztomaniaPhoenixWolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
ToxicSpears, BritneyIn The Zone
Life's What You Make ItTalk TalkThe Colour Of Spring
CannonballThe BreedersLast Splash
Love MachineGirls AloudWhat Will The Neighbours Say?
Love ShackThe B-52'sLove Shack
Can I Kick It?A Tribe Called QuestPeople's Instinctive Travels And Paths Of Rhythm
Reverend Black GrapeBlack GrapeIt's Great When You're Straight...Yeah
Hey BulldogThe BeatlesYellow Submarine
Uptown Top Rankin'Althea & Donna300% Dynamite
Made Up Lovesong #43GuillemotsI Saw Such Things In My Sleep
I Want To Take You HigherSly & The Family StoneStand!
Groove Is In The HeartDeee-LiteWorld Clique
Voodoo Ray (12" Version)A Guy Called GeraldVoodoo Ray - EP
Been Caught StealingJane's AddictionRitual De Lo Habitual
DebaserPixiesDoolittle
Big Pimpin'Jay-ZVol.3 ... Life And Times Of S. Carter
Freak Like MeSugababesAngels With Dirty Faces
Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)BeyoncéI Am...Sasha Fierce (Deluxe Version)
Crosstown TrafficHendrix, JimiElectric Ladyland
Like I Love YouTimberlake, JustinJustified
Got Your MoneyOl' Dirty BastardNigga Please
MilkshakeKelisTasty
So What'cha WantBeastie BoysCheck Your Head
Mama Said Knock You OutLL Cool JMama Said Knock You Out
Pump Up The VolumeM/A/R/R/SPump Up The Volume
Don't Stop 'Til You Get EnoughJackson, MichaelOff The Wall
Baby Can't StopLindstrøm & ChristabelleReal Life Is No Cool (disc 1)
Get Ur Freak OnElliott, MissyRespect M.E.
Hand In Your HeadMoney MarkPush The Button
Young Hearts Spark FireJapandroidsPost-Nothing
Smells Like Teen SpiritNirvanaNevermind
Block Rockin' BeatsThe Chemical BrothersDig Your Own Hole
Loaded (Edited Version)Primal ScreamDirty Hits
House Of Jealous LoversThe RaptureEchoes
Harder, Better, Faster, StrongerDaft PunkDiscovery
Last NightThe StrokesIs This It?
Get It OnT.RexElectric Warrior
Sweet DispositionThe Temper TrapSweet Disposition - EP
That's Not My NameThe Ting TingsWe Started Nothing
North American ScumLCD SoundsystemSound Of Silver
Over & OverHot ChipThe Warning
FirestarterThe ProdigyFirestarter
Switch it onWill YoungKeep On
Born Slippy (Edit)UnderworldBorn Slippy
Fools GoldThe Stone RosesFools Gold
RingerFour TetRinger
SequencedThe FieldYesterday And Today

venue booked, date set. im like a wedding planning nitro burning funny car!

btw SM yer wedding sounds awesome! looking forward to peeps falling over drunk at mine

clinching things about our venue:

1. they do all the set up and clean up, provide all the linens/silverwear/barware/tables/chairs/table settings/etc.
2. cheapest thing we found that didnt suck
3. the only venue in STPL that allows you to bring in yer own booze! this is going to save $$$$$ and let us do a full open bar all night
4. its fucking GORGEOUS
5. wholly owned and operated by a non-profit and all proceeds go towards giving college scholarships to underprivileged woman students - this just floored me, so happy. if im going to shovel a shitload of money into someone elses pockets, this is the best way i could do so.

http://www.stpaulcollegeclub.com/ for the curious. dan, please to be expecting to drink scotch in the library.

so i can get the rest of this shit done in a year, right? because we booked may 14 2011

My brother & his wife had four months between their engagement & wedding – you should be fine.

Yeah, man - you have plenty of time.

dudes we had 5 weeks and pulled it off. every wedding person you come across will be all GASP ONLY A YEAR????!??! but you can do it in that time EASY

also the venue looks incredible

Whether you can get done in a year depends solely on how elaborate you want it to be and how much you can delegate to others. For a modest garden-variety wedding a year should be very much adequate. My wife and I decided to marry in July and wed in November. We did almost everything ourselves, including pay for it, which had the desirable effect of keeping it pretty simple.

The whole process requires a lo-o-o-ng series of decisions. Make as many decisions as you can, as early as you can. Then you know what you are dealing with and can settle down to just doing it.

Choosing the venue is one of the biggest decisions so now you've got that sorted you've got loads of time (looks great, btw!).

P.S. The whole affair cost us about $1000 back in 1984. The single biggest expense was to buy me a suit so I wouldn't loook like a hobo. Seconod biggest expense was champagne.

I just went to my sister's wedding Saturday and can I say, don't make the celebration last from 10 a.m. to 9.m. contiguously, esp. if you are against serving alcohol?

okay that is abuse

xpost -- On the contrary, alcohol sounds like what one needs to survive a day running that long.

I wasn't even allowed to go to the actual wedding (which was in the temple) but they made me & my husband & youngest brother sit outside the temple the whole time, and just wait for them. We weren't even allowed to do that at home.

you sneaked in a flask, right? or at the very least did the hyperventilate-and-have-someone-choke-you-causing-a-burst-of-euphoria-with-accidental-death-as-a-possible-side-effect trick?

Oh man, I should have hired you as a survival consultant.

My uncle left & promised to bring me back "something fun," which turned out to be Dora the Explorer lunch bags.

IRL LOL + IRL facepalm

Yeah that looks like a v v nice venue btw

college club is Very Classy, been there before, nice venue.

yeah jj. don't worry about all that bullshit the wedding industry tries to scare u wit.

you've got the venue that's like 70 percent of it. honestly too, it's your day, as long as ppl eat and have the option of drinking and there is some kinda music you will be FINE

^^^ truth

altho real talk, some ppl will be disappointed if there aren't any ponies, just saying

like, I'm talking ponies shot out of cannons in a specialized version of the 21-gun salute

btw SM yer wedding sounds awesome!

this.

so wait where do i get the ponies im supposed to shoot with a cannon

You just go down to the pony corral and pick out the ones you want, kinda like picking out your lobster at a ritzy seafood place. I'd go for the sedater ones. Easier to load.

I'm sure 4nn13 Gl3nn13 is still around

can i just wing them, or is that bad luck

if you don't put wings on them, how are they going to fly after you shoot them out of the cannon?

Buffalo wings.

that doesn't even make sense, these are PONIES

Why are you resistant to the idea of draping a bunch of ponies in buffalo wings?

why are you tearing the wings off of poor, defenseless buffalo?

you are a CRUEL man

They died so we may live...to watch their dismembered limbs fly through the hair, accompanied only by the whiff of gunpowder and the surprised neigh of a piebald.

listen jj is getting married this is no time to get sentimental about a few buffalos

xpost -- Fly through the hair? I like that even better than fly through the air.

Ned, maybe you were thinking of bats?

is that what they serve at goth sports bars?

um, based on the definition I know for the phrase "bat wing" I really hope not

Oh?

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=batwing

I've been remiss for, like, 2 weeks apparently and am just catching up on all this now. Loved the story, especially worrying that K was going to go eat some salad. Congrats on finding a venue, yes you should have plenty of time before next May, but ugh wedding planning - just get it all done and out of the way. (I loved my wedding, hated planning it, it was really not my thing. My sister had about 500 guests at her wedding, though, so I probably shouldn't complain... that would have been even crazier...)

I wonder if I should look at Dan's link there (probably not, huh)

Ok, glad I read that before my trip to Carlsbad Caverns in 20 or so minutes here.

this thread is making me wish i was at HI DEREs wedding

Oh you have no idea

never mind SS i think jj said everyone could come to his to make up for it.....right?

I dunno how to actually do or say this given how incongruous it might seem, plus the fact I've not bought a physical ring or owt, but...me too, basically.

(You know when you're curled up in bed,and you get to talking...sometimes you talk and it gets dangerous. Sometimes you talk and end up discovering you want the same thing, and if you can fly around the world for love you can sure agree to commit your life.)

O_O FUCK AWESOME

GO LJ

congratulations you mentalist

dude you deserve yr own thread for this

the world needs lovers. Congrats.

haha cheers folks

wedding's gonna be in december. second half of 2k11 gonna be spent mad planning. but really, marriage suits me and it suits her. it's just really neat and tidy and we both want it more than anything else in the world.

now I sleep, having spoken

No way!

Dude! (she doesn't know how to use google, does she?) :-D

sir alex will have been delighted

o_OOO

Congrats LJ! :-D

xp LOL at Ailsa

Congratulations LJ, good work! Darraghmac is spot on.

congrats dude...have fun planning

sometimes I get a little jealous going to these fantastic weddings with open bars and customized m&ms since my wedding experience was basically "we have 2 months to plan this" and involved a golf cart and my Dad blowing out the speakers with the wedding march but at least I only had to deal with my fiance's insanity for 2 months, from what I've heard things are gonna get progressively worse until the big day and then finally you can breathe again

doing a wedding has nothing on buying property re: partner insanity

(grats LJ)

just saw this
sehr schnell wow
congrats and lol at not doing a new thread

oh my

ya i mean it's so sudden ppl havent even been able to gis up some blingee engagement gif

o_0

Congratulations!

OMG congrats! Mazel to the Tov.

http://i.imgur.com/qxUni.gif

I bet he already has the playlist planned..

the middle ground between cardiacs and queens of the stone age, what is it

Danii Minogue

Sincere congrats, LJ.

thanks :) and that goes for everyone else too

congrats lj! is she a kiwi or just living there?

1/2 kiwi, 1/2 spanish, but kinda fully both (raised in both countries, encyclopedic cultural knowledge of both, fully bilingual w/o accent) if you know what i mean :)

also the most amazing thing to ever happen to me

:D aw LJ congrats!

sounds like the little lady is perfect for ya :)

congrats lj!

You will have known to take this woman as your lawful wife

supporters of fornication will be disappointed, but try telling that to the registrar!

knee droppage was achieved <3

well done on obtaining residency in the land of the long white cloud

oh and getting engaged

Congratulations!

congrats dude!! <3

post pictures of her

congrats, lj! I will race you to see who has a wedding first (we're shooting for 2011 but I dunno, may not actually manage to pull that off?).

lj is the sort of ardent person who i'd expect to get married at a young age, truly he is a rat to the drainpipe of conjugal bliss

nuptial liveblogs svp

holy shit

congrats LJ, wishing you all the best.

jesus christ in a big fucking hat, where the hell was I asleep obv jeezzzzzz

wooohooo!!! congratulations LJ! huzzzah and bust out the good china, we be celebrating all up in this thing!!!!

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Congrats, dude!!!!

grats dave cool

what woman wouldn't wanna take the name Cool?

http://www.utteraccess.com/forum/style_emoticons/default/cheers.gif

xpost a cool one!

er, a cool one WOULD want to take it. everything is cool

Congrats! Did you come to some kind of compromise on the suburbs thing?

like 8.5 vs 8.1 let's just agree it's a solid 8+ record

so happy for dave cool !

http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif

:D

congrats!

wtg homie!!! \(^O^)/

aw, congratulations!

was she cool with you giving her a trucker hat instead of a ring?

proud of you, dude, always knew you had it in you

<3 http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif

That's very cool Dave Cool! Congrats! http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif

Thx y'all. Your congrats have been v cool.

excellent news! congratulations!

way to go dave cool!

Fantastic news man, long life to you both! Let me know if people telling you "here's what to expect from marriage" chafes you the way it did/does me

congrats! hopefully in 10 years, a cranky dude on a message board won't find your wedding mix cd and start a thread about how awful it is!

tbh we should make the happy couple a cool wedding mix

congrats! a good thread to consult fwiw:

http://forums.hipinion.com/viewtopic.php?t=15082&p=622821

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http://www.aquaponics.net.au/forum/images/smilies/bow.gif http://www.emofaces.com/en/emoticons/b/bow-emoticon.gif

Aw, yay! Best wishes to you both!

still waiting for the story/date, as i'm sure we'll all be invited http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif

belated congrats

B-J

that is dave cold

please please please let the ringbearer be a pupster pug

(congrats)

Congratulations and Best wishes!!!!

congratulations dude! being married is fucking awesome

congrats man

dave!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

because of this thread i have "bitches ain't shit but engaged and hitched" stuck in my head

:D

Seems impossible that no one else on ILE has ever gotten engaged since 2012, but here I am to break the streak!

MAN BITES DOG

cool

dude, congrats!

https://i.giphy.com/media/NbUjQL9VKOK1q/giphy.webp

Oh shit, congrats Eric!

Congrats Eric!

Hurrah!

In celebration of your upcoming nuptials, here is a painting of the driving of the Golden Spike, as the two parts of the first intercontinental railroad were joined at last.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/The_Last_Spike_1869.jpg

I like these posts., congratulations!

🥳

congrats!!

Congratulations!

mazel tov!

Yay

https://youtu.be/1Bix44C1EzY

But seriously: congratulations!

Thanks everybody. He popped the question before I had the chance to “ask” his parents for permission over Christmas. No matter, we were both on the same course.

Nice, congrats!

ayyyyy 'grats!!!

nice to read some good news, congrats!

marriage is one of the most optimistic acts humans do