Would you like to marry me? And if you like you can buy the ring.

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I feel bad for inappropriately hijacking the despair thread, so I'm going to do my virtual dancing around and beaming here, then you can feel free to ignore it.

I ASKED MATT TO MARRY ME ON XMAS EVE AND HE SAID YES!! WE'RE, LIKE, ENGAGED!!

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 2 January 2003 10:56 (twenty-three years ago)

congratulations! that is ace!

― rainy (rainy), Thursday, 2 January 2003 10:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Yay Archel & Matt!!! Congrats!!

― robster (robster), Thursday, 2 January 2003 11:02 (twenty-three years ago)

fantastic news, congratulations!

― Vicky (Vicky), Thursday, 2 January 2003 11:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Congratulations Archel! I wish you a long & happy marriage.

― Mooro (Mooro), Thursday, 2 January 2003 11:15 (twenty-three years ago)

congrats! since you asked does he get the ring?

― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 2 January 2003 11:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, I got him a ring but now he will get one for me to match (I hope!)

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 2 January 2003 11:23 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm dead chuffed for you. Will you wear a pretty frock and red knickers?

― Madeleine (Madeleine), Thursday, 2 January 2003 11:25 (twenty-three years ago)

I haven't thought about the outfit yet, but I'm pretty sure it will involve a gorgeous tiara from the shop I used to live above. Every day I drooled over them and cursed the lack of a suitable occasion...

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 2 January 2003 11:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Congratulations Archel!

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 2 January 2003 13:08 (twenty-three years ago)

yes, congrats to you both.

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 2 January 2003 13:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Woo hoo! What a mark of liberation that you proposed! Anyway, Congrats of course!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 2 January 2003 13:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Congrats, welcome to the club.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 2 January 2003 13:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Curses, missed the boat with this one.

Congratulations Archie. Can I be the maid of honour?

― Mark C (Mark C), Thursday, 2 January 2003 13:58 (twenty-three years ago)

So very lovely. Makes up for being back at work today, it really does. Hurrah for Archel & Matt! I hope you're going to let him know how happy a cadre of mentalists are, Arch.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 2 January 2003 14:03 (twenty-three years ago)

No Mark, but you can be the DJ if you like :)

Liz, he will be delighted that you all approve. I may even show him this thread later, so no scurrilous comments please!

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 2 January 2003 14:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Congratulations, felicitations, felicidades!

I'd suggest no tiara and some spectacular hat instead, 40s style...but I see there is no point in negotiating the tiara. And men with rings, not very sure about it.

anyway,it is good to be back at work -and at ilx- with good news about lovely people

― arantxa, Thursday, 2 January 2003 14:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Awww, well done.

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 2 January 2003 14:20 (twenty-three years ago)

I may even show him this thread later, so no scurrilous comments please!

That is inviting trouble, but not from me. Many congratulations Archel + Matt.

― stevo (stevo), Thursday, 2 January 2003 14:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Hooray for Archel and Matt!

― rosemary (rosemary), Thursday, 2 January 2003 14:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Many congratulations! Did you go down on bended knee to propose?

Details! We want details!

― C J (C J), Thursday, 2 January 2003 14:50 (twenty-three years ago)

congrats!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 2 January 2003 15:29 (twenty-three years ago)

I didn't get on one knee. I just took him for a walk and claimed I had an early Xmas present for him, then gave him the ring as we stood on the beach in the dark. I don't think I managed to actually get the words out, but in anticipation of this I'd written 'will you marry me?' on a bit of paper inside the ring box... so that was ok.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 2 January 2003 15:37 (twenty-three years ago)

congrats!

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Thursday, 2 January 2003 15:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Dark beach scene sounds lovely!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 2 January 2003 15:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Arg - that's the most romantic thing ever. Congrats guys!

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 2 January 2003 15:51 (twenty-three years ago)

That's so lovely.

(did you bring a torch as well in anticipation of him not being aable to read the romantic note on the romantic dark beach?)

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 2 January 2003 15:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Rah rah! :-)

(And yes I'm back. FINALLY. My home internet connection decided not to work, and I just *love* how the cable people have no idea why...)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 January 2003 15:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Wow! Congratulations, Archel.

― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 2 January 2003 16:02 (twenty-three years ago)

No torch... we had to find a streetlight in the end.

And thanks everyone!

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 2 January 2003 16:06 (twenty-three years ago)

hooray!! congratulations.

― maura (maura), Thursday, 2 January 2003 17:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Outrageously incredible. And strange. Overwhelming congratulations.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 2 January 2003 17:40 (twenty-three years ago)

hip hip hooray for archel, oh her magical getting engaged day!

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 2 January 2003 18:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Enormous congratulations! A fantastic way to start the year on ILE!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 2 January 2003 18:42 (twenty-three years ago)

How wonderful for you both - congrats!

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 3 January 2003 01:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Congrats!

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Friday, 3 January 2003 01:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Yay! Congratulations Archel! Make sure you get a decent dj.

― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 3 January 2003 01:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Congrats Archel!

And commiserations to MarkC on being sorely dissed by Nicole.

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 3 January 2003 11:23 (twenty-three years ago)

(btw don't buy the ring from a bloke with four burnt-looking fingers and one giant lidless eye)

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 3 January 2003 11:41 (twenty-three years ago)

B-b-but together Matt and I would be powerful, and terrible! All would love us and despair! What do you mean, 'take it back to Mount Doom and head down to Argos'?? Grr.

(We might avoid DJ controversy actually as Matt will probably defy protocol and hog the decks at his own reception...)

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 3 January 2003 11:58 (twenty-three years ago)

CONGRATS! (And in deference to your request, no jokes about you going down. On one knee. Ooh, that's not helping.)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 3 January 2003 14:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Congratulations!

― smee (smee), Friday, 3 January 2003 14:27 (twenty-three years ago)

(Did this have anything to do with that pier falling down?)

Congratulations, I'm pleased for you both.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 3 January 2003 19:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Congratulations.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Saturday, 4 January 2003 00:12 (twenty-three years ago)

*challenges Nicole to a SOUNDCLASH!

― Mark C (Mark C), Saturday, 4 January 2003 13:08 (twenty-three years ago)

im happy. i like when people risk forever.

― anthony easton (anthony), Saturday, 4 January 2003 18:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Congratulations Archel! Cheers for advice to me before yeah? this puts things in perspective!

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 5 January 2003 07:30 (twenty-three years ago)

too much fucking perspective.

congratulations Archel!

― DV (dirtyvicar), Sunday, 5 January 2003 11:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Gosh, congratulations. You brave!

― toraneko (toraneko), Sunday, 5 January 2003 12:37 (twenty-three years ago)

But surely you could just have found a party to wear the tiara to?

Big congratulations from me and Neil xxx

― ailsa, Sunday, 5 January 2003 23:06 (twenty-three years ago)

I didn't know it was you, Mark C! I am just still pissed at the awful dj I had for my wedding, I issue this word of caution re: djs to all and sundry.

― Nicole (Nicole), Sunday, 5 January 2003 23:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Congratulations! I think you should wear a tiara for the whole engagement period.

(Also congratulations Ronan for working out how to type with an accent.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 6 January 2003 05:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Congratulations Archel, sounds like a lovely proposal, all the best.

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 6 January 2003 10:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Nicole, I don't think I will be the DJ. Shame, I'm very malleable. Not up for the soundclash either? I shall whup you with my Francoise Hardy!

― Mark C (Mark C), Monday, 6 January 2003 21:17 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

Revive! And a mere two years later... we are actually getting ready to do the deed.

So, I was looking around for a thread/threads on nice readings/poems for weddings which I'm sure we've had but I can't find it/them.

And rather than start a new one I came back here. Any thoughts?

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 10 February 2005 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha and I can't believe I quoted the Smiths in regard to my own wedding. It's a bad omen, surely.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 10 February 2005 14:28 (twenty-one years ago)

"I don't dream about anyone . . . .except myself . . . "

Sorry, that's mean.

Have you fixed a date yet?

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Thursday, 10 February 2005 14:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Indeed, 2 July.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 10 February 2005 14:31 (twenty-one years ago)

the wife and i used this:

i carry your heart with me (i carry it in
my heart) i am never without it (anywhere
i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)

i fear
no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want
no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)

e.e. cummings

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 10 February 2005 14:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Nice!

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 10 February 2005 14:49 (twenty-one years ago)

In keeping with the thread title, you could do like my husband and I did and have a (highly inappropriate in this case) Morrissey song at your wedding. We had "The more you ignore me, the closer I get".

― kate/papa november (papa november), Thursday, 10 February 2005 14:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Aw! Well, we are having songs (probably Andreas Scholl at the beginning and Doris at the end) but I quite fancy a reading halfway through as well.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 10 February 2005 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

A reading? Surely Dan speaking of bootyflakes is the answer. Or not.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 February 2005 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I wrote a poem for our wedding. It was cheesy and therefore perfect.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 10 February 2005 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Congratulations, Archel & Matt!

― youn, Thursday, 10 February 2005 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I wrote a poem for our wedding. It was cheesy and therefore perfect.

"I think that I shall never see
A hottie as lovely as Joei."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 February 2005 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, then I slapped her on the ass.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 10 February 2005 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

I always wanted to marry Billy Mackenzie.

― Quit glaring at Ian Riese-Moraine! He's mentally fraught! (Eastern Mantra), Friday, 18 March 2005 13:57 (twenty-one years ago)

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