Marriage
 

My girlfriend wants to get married. Being the romantic that I am I told her we should wait till we're real people with jobs and shit.

I don't even know HOW you get married. I guess some kind of registry office. Maybe Elvis could marry us in Vegas.

So does anyone have any advice? It sounds like a fuck ton of hassle to organise everything but I guess that could just be television lying to me as it so often does.

Good luck buddy. Just propose and tell her you'll marry her when you're good and ready. It's take more than a year to plan for it.

Get finances situated plus living expenses.

I'm basically shit at planning anything so the prospect of eloping sounds really quite attractive. Though I don't think my parents would ever forgive me for not inviting them :lol

I guess we should get engaged first but I don't see the point. The only difference doing so would make would be for me to substitute girlfriend for Fiancé in conversation.

My sister's wedding took about a year of planning. And then it didn't work out perfectly anyway. Have fun, sucker.

I was engaged for about 15 months before the wedding; even then it was a lot of last-minute details that needed doing RIGHT NOW YOU DAMNABLE BASTARD!!!!

But it all gets done in the end. 19+ years now, and still going, just like the energizer bunny. Good luck.

I'm still pushing for the 2 or 5 year marriage lease.

i don't approve of marriage

Only judges and ministers can do that.

From what I understand, you just propose to her, and then she and her mother plan out the wedding because they're the ones who really care about it.

Same goes for engagements.

Don't forget to buy a real expensive ring that someone will mug her for.

my wedding kicked ass and it wasn't too much of a hassle (except when we had to keep spending our poverty money and people called everyday saying the same shit and asking endless questions), but that's probably because i have a cool wife ;o We basically planned it a few months in advance, although all our previous plans kept falling through because her family is full of fucking idiot selfish douchebags who say shit like, "ILL DO ANYTHING FOR YOUR WEDDING" and then they pretend like we ask them for fucking 10000 dollar honeymoon suites and bitch to people about it (and then the assholes, brotherinlaws, they bitch about it to turn around and go, WELL YOU ASKED FOR A TEN THOUSAND DOLLAR HONEYMOON SUITE SO NO WONDER DAD IS SO STRESSED AND DOESNT WANT TO HELP;\) We were engaged for like a year though

We just had a picnic by a river and a friend of mine married us. We made all the food and arranged everything. At the last minute her douchebag (shes not really that bad but seriously they were such selfish douchebags about us getting married) mother decided to buy her a wedding dress, which was good because she totally reneged on an agreement to give us 500 dollars instead of buying her a wedding dress. I could tell the only reason she even did it was because she suddenly (one week before the wedding) felt like an asshole FOR SOME REASON so she needed to redeem herself. Same thing goes for her father, he called us a week before the wedding when everything was already set and we had arranged/fixed everything ourselves and offered for us to have the wedding at his house. Her mom did that, too ;\

You have to go to the county office and fill out a form to get a marriage license. It costs 67 dollars here. Then you get some form that the priest has to sign.

prepare for several of your single friends to have like midlife crisis' or some shit and start acting like they are all superior to you and make smarmy comments because they are too good for marriage.

Oh yea and expect every single single douchebag who wants to seem fucking unique to share their opinions and say, "I DONT BELIEVE IN MARRIAGE." "IM HAPPY FOR YOU BUT I WOULD NEVER GET MARRIED." "I DONT APPROVE OF MARRIAGE" WILLIE.
OPINIONS

The biggest problem with marriage is that you no longer get to live in a state of carnal sin.

I AGREE.

There's an "a" in "marriage."

you can still live in carnal sin when you're married:

Adultery. Threesomes. Swinging. Masturbating to porn when they aren't around. Butt fucking kinky sex. the list goes on.

marriage doesn't really change all that much really unless you want it to ;\

foursomes ;D, gangbangs, forced prostitution in menial labor.

Marriage is a strange socio-magical spell ;\

pair swapping

scat swapping

I think theres also a "u" in color.. but anywayz just wait till you know what your doing before jumping ship and doing something you will regret later on. and if theres is kid involved your life is over with out any real good employment. like the old saying go's "date your hand enjoy your paycheck unless she has one to" in this day and age it couldnt be any truer.

The only thing marriage has changed for me is my tax status.
We were together for 5 years before we got married, lived together for 4 years.
And yes, carnal sin is still available in some marriages.
It certainly can keep things interesting!

Marriage isn't really that big of a deal. You can always get a divorce or just you know leave her ;\ Dunno why people make such a big deal out of marriage. It's just dating with a license and a big ceremony...

and get a prenuptial or something agreement so that you wont treat each other like assholes during the divorce ;\ whatever.

and there's only a U in Colour in some what england and canada or something.

Same here, just about.

We've been together for about 4 years now - living together for 2 so it seems like the thing to do. I do want to get married but it just seems so weird. I don't feel like an adult that should be doing adult things like this.

A "no contest divorce" or a "no fault divorce" where both parties decide it was a bad idea and want to end it quickly cost me $500. Best $500 I've ever spent.
Check into the laws where you live about marriage and divorce, it's pretty important "just in case" information.
When I grew tired of my first husband I tried to get it annulled a year later because it'd be cheaper than divorce but the time statute had voided it out. Where we lived if you don't consummate the marriage within 24 hours it's void. It was a valiant effort though. Dumbass was too drunk to fuck on our wedding night, yet I stuck with him out of necessity more than anything else.
Don't get a marriage for convenience, it's expensive to get out of.
Make sure you're doing it for the right reasons and that you both want the same or similar things out of life. It makes it ALOT easier.
I only got out of it for cheap due to the fact we had no property or children to try and split.

:lol yea ;\ I hate feeling like an adult.

How old are you?