Wedding Blog
(Bruschetta Disclaimer: I’ve written this fully realizing the topic can be controversial to some, but wanted to share my experience nonetheless!)
Several weeks ago, I was preparing for a major life moment. Together with my mister, we put down the deposit, selected the unit, and scheduled the move-in day. After over seven years together, Mr. Bruschetta and I finally got our own place. And I was a bigger jumble of emotions than I expected.
I was nervous. I’m a world-class worrier. (It’s an inherited trait from Mama Bruschetta’s side.) And fretting over ridiculous minutiae is a habit I haven’t been able to break. Raise your hand if you’ve experienced unease wondering if your toothpaste tube habits will rankle his. (I’m sheepishly raising mine.)
I was stressed. I just couldn’t marshal my thoughts well enough to plan for this move. From packing my clothes, to organizing boxes from college and grad school, to emptying my desk and dressers, it seemed like there was an endless to-do list, and I had no idea where to start.
I was wistful. Sure, I’ve lived away from home. But, for the past year, I’d been back with my parents. And I knew I’d miss seemingly insignificant things like watching the clips Mama Bruschetta’s saved on Tivo — and less trivial ones, like eating dinner with both parental Bruschettas.
But, above all, I was excited. I love this man so much. Prior to the move, coordinating our schedules was super tough (despite the fact that we lived in the same town!), and I usually only got to see him once or twice a week. Uh-huh, you read that correctly. I really couldn’t wait to try out new recipes together, or snuggle up on the couch for a casual date night.
Our wedding marks the official start of “us”, but we’ve already started our trial run a few short weeks ago.
Did you move in with your fiance before getting engaged or while planning your wedding? Or, did you wait to cohabitate after the wedding?
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I’ve been long distance (he’s in Georgia and I’m in New Mexico) with my FI for 2.5 years and he (really badly) wants us to live together before we’re married. I wasn’t willing to compromise with this one - not sure why, but I wanted to be man and wife when we lived together for the first time. But now, with our wedding next February, I’m planning on moving to Georgia in October or November and I couldn’t be more excited! You’ll have to let us know how the toothpaste escapades work out!
My fiance and I have been together for almost 7 years as well and have lived together now for about 2 1/2 years while I love it, and know that we weren’t forced to live together, I am a little jealous of those who havent lived together before getting married. There is a whole other level of excitement that would be added to getting married. Living together for that long takes out the little “toothpaste stresses” but it is at the cost of truly begnning a life together at the wedding. Good Luck!
Congratulations! I’ll be moving to Mr. Mitla’s house in just four months (a year before the wedding). Can’t wait!
As a matter of circumstance we moved in together pretty quickly int our relationship (about 6 months). And then lived together for about 4 years before getting married. You will have some kinds to iron out at first, but I’m sure everything will go fine! Just remember to still spend quality time together (watching reruns on TV does not always count) and also to still have independent activities (you can go read in the bedroom while he watches football - you don’t have to spend every second together). Have fuN!
Of the three & a half years we’ve been together, we’ve lived together for a little over two of them. We moved in together prior to being engaged, but we did know we would get married one day. My roommates moved out of state, and I could not afford to live on my own, so we moved in together - I couldn’t imagine NOT living with the person you plan to spend the rest of your life with prior to the wedding, honestly. We’re both surprised it’s been so long and we still don’t want to kill each other. So, yeah, I guess when we get married, we’ll just go home afterwards, and it won’t feel like some magical huge moment - but that’s not quite our romance style anyway, so it’s not something I’m concerned with.
GOOD LUCK! Keep communication lines clear, and be open to change. That’s the best advise I can give you for jumping into cohabitation. It’s still a struggle to keep his socks off the floor, but it’s worth it, in the end.
Mr. S and I moved in together almost two years ago (so about 8 months before getting engaged)…and we bought a condo this past summer. I think moving in together was the best thing we could have done for our relationship because we go so much closer! While we had a great relationship beforehand, there was a definite difference (a great one!) after cohabitating.
Homeownership was definitely scarier than just renting an apartment together, but a great move that I’m glad we made! It’s also great to know that we’re settled into a home, so that when we register, we’ll be registering for things to fit the home we’ll be in for a few years to come!
@Mrs. Pinot Noir: Oh, I second this also - we have an office, and most evenings, I spend time with my laptop and bad television on the couch in the living room, and he spends time with his laptop and own bad television in the office, and knowing that we each like to have our own space and own time apart has helped us REALLY not kill each other yet. It’s very true - you don’t NEED to spend every moment together.
Congrats on the new place! Taking that leap is both exciting and scary, but I know you will make the most of it. Good luck!
P.S. I love Mr. B’s sweatshirt in that pic… GO VOLS! 
We’ve lived together for almost 3 years now, and have been together for almost 5 years. Neither of us wanted to move back in with our parents after college, so moving in together just made the most sense. We haven’t had any of the usual problems (I let the dishes pile up, he hates that- kind of stuff), and when we hit a rough patch in our relationship about a year and a half ago, living together was really the extra incentive to work it out. I’m so glad we did!
However, on the other side, we have relatives who are not appreciative of our relationship. When we moved into our townhouse, his mother actually put my clothes in the spare room closet as a not-so-subtle hint. I also have an aunt on my dad’s side who won’t even be coming to the wedding because we “lived in sin.”
For us, it was worth it.
The first night we moved in was when my honey proposed. We have been living together for 1 1/2 years and will be married in July. I don’t regret a thing.
Mr. FF and I did things very backwards and moved into together after only dating 3 months! Crazy I know, but it worked out and a year later we bought our first house together and are getting married. But moving in together is fun and exciting but will bring different challenges to the table! Congrats! And enjoy it!
We moved in together after about 8 months of dating and about four months before we got engaged. Neither of us every lived with a SO other before but it just seemed the natural thing to do.
Congrats!! We moved in after 6 years together (4 long distance, two in the same town…) and one year before we got engaged. I experienced many of the same emotions as you…for us, it worked and I love living with him!
for some reason it is not letting me post as a member, whatevs. i’ll be a guest.
CONGRATULATIONS on the apartment! that must be so exciting. I am moving my stuff down to my fiance’s place in May, although I will live at my parents house until the wedding in July. It has been SO HARD with him in Philly and me in Rhode Island- I can’t WAIT until the same things you are excited for… casual snuggle time on the couch, cooking together, etc. I hope you two are having a blast already!!!
also, LOVE your posts. I loved your comments as magpie, and i love your posts now even more!
We moved in together during college. We have always had roomates, so when we get married we will be living together alone for the first time.
Not only are we living together before the wedding, we’re actually purchasing a home together this summer (the wedding is in Oct 2010). Like many posters before have said, “It just felt natural”. We moved in together shortly after beginning to date. Then again, we got engaged after 8 months of dating… so… we tend to buck tradition all around
My fiancee and I also dated for 7 year before moving in together last October. One of the best decisions we could have made! Everything has been absolutely wonderful, no real adjustment really!
Congrats on the BIG move!! It is exciting (and nerve-wracking)!
Mr. Sushi and I co-habitated together for a lil’ over 2 years before we got hitched. While we had a few habits to get used to, it’s honestly the best thing we’ve ever done (besides marrying each other 
). It’s funny how such a “little” thing can totally transform a relationship. We are sooo much closer and comfortable with each. I love it!
Mr Corn bought a house while I trailed along when we were dating but about to be engaged. I moved in after he proposed. My mom once said that if you had told her that her daughter would move in with a guy before being married and she would be ok with it, she would have laughed at you. But it was seriously impractical for me to pay rent on an apartment when I could have been contributing to our mortgage! I think you really only get ‘in trouble’ if you are using living together before marraige as a ‘test period’ to see if it will work. In my eyes, you either commit or you don’t.
We’re waiting to live together until after we are married - although we’ll be moving both of our stuff into a common place soon and one of us will live there until we leave for our wedding in June. I’m SO SO excited to finally live with the Mr. and to be his Mrs.!!
Looks like I’m in the minority here. We won’t be living together until after the wedding. I’m really excited that our wedding day will be the start of our lives together as a couple in many different ways. In our situation, the reasons for waiting until the wedding are attributed to practical, financial, religious and personal factors.
We’re moving in about seven weeks before we get married. His contract is up, and since we live next to each other anyway it make more sense to go ahead and get the movers to take all our stuff to the new place. Oh, and I graduate in-between. Goodness!
um. yea. HE IS MOVING IN TOMORROW.
nervous? check. scared that we are going to constantly annoy each other? check. super excited to live with the man I am in love with? check.
My fiance and I have been together for 3 years… we moved in together about 5 months after we started “seeing” each other (his words, not mine)… this was all circumstancial. We had just returned off deployment (Navy) and he was looking for a place… in the process of that, he was staying with me. After about 3 weeks of his suitcase and stuff strewn around my bedroom I told him to either put all his stuff into his bag or hang it up… lol… we’ve been living together happily since.
We have been together for 5 years and engaged for almost 3- we started living together a year ago. No one in my uber conservative family thought it was a big eal because we were engaged for so long and no one thought we were actually ever going to set a date. Plus, we slept over at each others so much it was like we lived together anyway
I find that it can be vitally important to not only live together before marriage, but to also have sex before marriage.
My husband’s first marriage quickly fell apart after they got married. Because of religious reasons, she refused to have sex with him until after they tied the knot. Six months later, she was cheating on him with another man. Why? Her reasoning was that her then husband and her weren’t sexually compatible. They didn’t fit properly, and she didn’t feel like it was something they could even work on. (My husband is very well endowed - even we have to be careful sometimes with positions.) She also claimed she had some sexual abuse as a child, so my husband even took out a second job to try to get her counseling!
Of course, she ended up being able to have sex just fine with her new boyfriend (now her husband). So, there you go.
I used to think that living together and having sex before marriage was a bad idea, mostly for religious reasons. However, I wouldn’t change the experiences with my husband before we got married for anything. He had a lot of sexual and emotional issues early on in our relationship, due to his ex-wife and another girlfriend who also cheated on him. I’m happy we were able to work those out early on.
Can you imagin having to deal with his sexual/emotional issues on top of moving in together and getting married… all at the same time??
We’ve lived together the whole time we’ve been engaged. It just made sense for us, we wanted to be out of the dorms, neither of us had a ton of friends to move in with, and an apartment for one in a college town is cost prohibitive.
I do think that the best thing about living together though, has been living with roommates. We’ve gotten a lot of the little stresses out of the way, figured out how we want to run the household when it’s our household, and are now incredibly eager to move out on our own and leave the days of roommating behind. We still get that newlywed excitement without a lot of the struggles that go with it.
Can I share a secret on how to make things work… buy TWO tubes of toothpaste. Seriously though - if, like me, you’re used to your own habits and your way is the right way, it makes all the difference in not sweating the small stuff!
I lived with my FI for about a year and a half before he proposed, I think living together is a great idea - you work out a good number of the kinks before the wedding and get to just enjoy each other afterwards!
We have been dating for 6 years and did long distance for 2 of that. When I moved down to DC last year, we lived separately but I was only on a 6 month lease. When it was up, we ended up living together out of circumstance, knowing we would be engaged soon and figured “we practically live together anyway”. It was a decision that had lots of discussion before we did it, and we included our parents in the decision as well. My mom, to my surprise, said she preferred it because what if you just can’t live with a person. She wanted us to have the chance to be sure we would live in peace. We do
We moved in together when I graduated from college and started law school. If you are looking for an apartment to share with your guy for the first time, look for either double sinks or separate bathrooms - we had a Jack and Jill bathroom, so we each had our own space, tubes of toothpaste, decor, etc. I miss it a lot, especially when one of us decides to go to the bathroom while the other is brushing his or her teeth. We got engaged about a year and a half after moving in together - once we had moved from that apartment to the one where we have to share a bathroom :(. It’s an adjustment, but its so worth it because with law school, there is no way that I would have been able to spend time with him otherwise.
My fiance and I are moving in together in May, after 6.5 years together. We will live together for almost a year before we are married. We have been some variety of long distance for the three years he’s been in law school (although we lived together last summer), so it’s amazing that this is finally happening!
Congrats! I am a huge proponent of couples living together before marriage. I think that it is the only way to really know if you can have a successful marriage. There are things that you will never know about someone until you live with them. My FI and I have lived together for almost 6 years now and I would have it no other way. We would never be able to see each other with our crazy lives. Good luck!
P.S. Go Vols!!!
Congrats!! The first few weeks/months of living together is such an exciting time. FI and I not only have our own tubes of toothpaste, we have separate bathrooms and closets! Our apt. is a 2br/2bath and the bathrooms are SUPER small. It just would not have worked if we both had to share the one in our bedroom. Honestly, I’d probably kill him (joking, I’d just make his life a living hell). My FSIL and a good friend also have this system and it just WORKS.
I can’t imagine marrying some one without living with them first. I can respect the religious reasons, but I can’t wrap my head around them I guess. I’ve always said, you’ve got to test drive the car before you buy it (and that applies to my feelings toward sex before marriage, too). Not that living together is a “test drive” for me, but I’d like to know how to handle our respective habits before we’re bombarded with the “first year of marriage” thing. Enjoy this time, and take the advice of previous posters about keeping some independent activities. Great advice
I was trying to figure out what was controversial then I saw the “cohabitating” part and I was like “OOOOOHHHHHH…”
Hehehe My FI and I have always cohabitated. Like since we’ve been dating. I guess I don’t see the controversy because I don’t see what’s wrong with it…(but we always KNEW, you know?) Our first big excitement will be BUYING our first home! I’m so excited about that!! Even though you’re nervous and stressed, it still sounds like a LOT of fun!!
Congratulations! How exciting! The picture of the two of you is adorable!!!!!!
Those toothpaste debacles are sure to arise. But just remember that “your” way isn’t always right. And its good to compromise on the small things… after all, it doesn’t really matter if you squeeze from the bottom of the tube, or if you just squeeze from the middle and then work that last bit out from the bottom. Hee hee! And if washing your dishes right away rather than letting them sit till after dinner would stop little arguments from happening, I think its worth it to put forth that effort. The more you compromise, the more he will compromise and it will all work out just fine! GOOD LUCK!
First off congrats! We’ve been living together for almost seven months now and I couldn’t be happier that we chose to before we got married. There are several times that I freaked out about stupid things. Getting adjusted to living with someone new, and living away from your parents (especially when you know that you will never go back) is tough. But make sure to talk about any toothpaste differences, its worth being able to come home to the man you love every night!
Yes, congrats! How exciting! Yes, Mr. P and I moved in together about two months after we got engaged. It’s made life easier in terms of saving money and wedding logistics.
I totally understand! I’m the nervous worrier as well. I own my house and Mr. S rents a house, so it was sensible that he would move in to my house. Most of my family felt we should wait until after the wedding, but it was a matter of circumstance that he will be moving in about 10 weeks from now. Mr. S lives in a little bitty town about 1 hour and 45 minutes away from where I live, though we both grew up in the city where I live. So, when the school year is over and he finishes his job, he will be moving in my house. Currently we alternate weekends back and forth between the 2 houses which is extremely exhausting and really wearing us down and increasing stress. Congrats on the move—enjoy it!
my husband and i waited until we got married to live together. for us, the reasons were based on our faith and on the big day, it couldn’t have been more fun and exciting! it was so great to fall asleep together for the first time in our own bed as husband and wife and wake up together for the first time as huband and wife. it just made getting married that much more exciting and gave us a lot to look forward to.
i think it’s fabulous because you really get a real feel of whether you can truly live with this person for the rest of your life - morning breath, socks left everywhere and other random habits!
congrats on the new pad!
Congrats on getting your first place together, Miss B! Hopefully you were worrying for no reason and the transition is going well!
FI and I have been together for 2.5 years and still don’t live together. We’re currently looking for a house to buy together, even though the wedding isn’t for another year. Financially, it just makes sense. Even though I’m majorly looking forward to living with him, I am also quite sure we’ll have an adjustment period while we get used to being around each other night and day. I’m sure I’ll be a nervous wreck for a few weeks before we move.
Congrats!! Don’t you feel like such a grownup?! My guy and I moved in together this past summer 2008 after we graduated from college and then we just got engaged in Feb. 2009 (yay!) - having this period to live together pre-marriage has been really awesome for us - we’ve grown so much closer and have found that, yes, we can in fact live together in happiness! You definitely get to know all of the little annoying habits, but you also get all those extra random special moments together that you wouldn’t have otherwise if you were living apart. enjoy
My fiance and I have been together for five years (since high school) and are waiting to live together until we are married. We will get an apartment and move all of our stuff before the wedding. For us, the idea of coming home from our honeymoon to our new place together is great. Living together for the first time will really make being married feel different. Sometimes I wish we lived together, but at the same time I think we will really appreciate the little things. We are more excited about waking up together, eating dinner and watching movies on our couch, etc. than we are about the actual wedding!
Congrats!! FH and I don’t currently live together. We live a town apart and don’t get to see each other as often as we’d like, so I understand what you were saying about seeing each other twice a week :-/
Congrats!!! That’s so exciting.
I’m very conservative and religious so my FI and I won’t be moving in together until after the wedding and I’m excited that we’re doing it this way Every day we talk about how exciting it will be to finally live together so I think it keeps us alive. As of now we have two homes, it’s midtown home and downtown home but can’t wait til it’s just home. We have been mentally and emotionally ready to live together three months into our relationship so we’re keeping this as our icing on our cake
Aw, congrats and best of luck!!!
PS: I love the way you title your posts
that is the cutest pic of you guys!
Mr. Rye and I moved in after 4 months! It’s been fantastic. I love living with my best friend :). That’s what’s worked for us, though - I don’t think moving in before marriage works for everyone (but if the cuteness of that pic is any indicator, you have nothing to worry about! ).
Congrats!
We moved in together after I finished college, since he had graduated a semester before me. We lived in an apartment for the rest of that year, but in the meantime bought a house about 2 months before our lease was up. We renovated the kitchen and painted and everything and it was all mostly done by the time we moved in. We got married just short of a year after that and I honestly wouldn’t have done anything differently. It gave us time to work out our differences in habits and get used to each other, but I have loved it from the beginning.
plus, I’ll admit that my toothpaste habits irk him He’s adamant about squeezing up from the bottom, but I just go ahead and squeeze it from the middle and it annoys the heck out of him, ha! I’m learning slowly…
We’re going to move in together and he wants to buy a house. Only thing is he wants to buy the house, and it’ll become ours when we become married. Not sure how I feel about that if its its going to more of his place then it will be our place.
We’ve been together almost three years and will be moving in together later this year. We don’t have a wedding date set yet, so we’ll probably be living together for 1.5 to 2 years before we are married.
I would have liked to move in together sooner, but his current place is too small for the two of us, and this is the first time in our three years that we’ve both been planning to move at the same time.
We lived together while we could, but with his deployment and being stationed so far away, we simply can’t! I’m all for living together. We’ll actually be married but living apart, all too common with military couples. Boo. I figure, you’re already committed, so this is just another phase of the relationship. I loved living with my FI. We learned so much about each other. It was really wonderful. We also realized our relationship wasn’t all rainbows and honey, either, because we had to figure out who would shower when, that I took too long and made us late, etc. Little stuff. A marriage is enough on my plate, I don’t need to be learning his weird morning rituals, too! ha! Congrats on the new place. That’s so exciting!!!!
Congratulations! It’s a BIG step and one that is ok for you to have several very opposing emotions about…
Don’t feel bad or weird about being a jumble of emotions. When my FI and I started talking about the wedding, we made the decision to go ahead and move in together, but I was adamant about the ering being on my finger first. I don’t know WHY it made such a difference to me, but it was important to me…
Even having all of the time ahead to know that it was coming, when the official day came, I had the same mixture of emotions that you did. Hang in there and you’ll make it through just fine!
I can’t imagine how crazy it would be to have to orchestrate a move and a wedding at the same time. It was a great choice for me!
@ all: Thanks for all the well-wishes! I can’t wait to offer an update to the hive — but can say that thus far, it’s been great living with Mr. Bruschetta.
@MaPo: Girl, you hit the nail on the head. After one crazy week of devoting my time and energy to the move — coincidentally also my first official week as a bee — I jumped back into the world of blogging and wedding planning, while Mr. Bruschetta oh-so-helpfully continued getting us settled and set up.
Mr. Gloss and I lived together for about a year before he proposed and we definately have had our share of ‘adjustements’….if it gets out of hand and you don’t feel like ‘nagging’ him to do things - bright pink sticky notes work wonders….put them everywhere until he remembers to…
*shut the shower curtain
*flush, (even if its a #1 in the middle of the night and his excuse is that he doesn’t want to wake you up)
*not leave toothpaste spit in the sink
I cannot wait to have two bathrooms!
Hey, I spy a winter promo Starbucks t-shirt. I suppose I skipped the worries since I started staying over a few weekdays a week, a few months after we started dating. Then it became every weekday, and ultimately everyday. Since I eased into it, I never thought to be nervous that it wouldn’t work.
My fiance and I moved in together a couple months before we got engaged. We both knew that marriage was in the future (I wouldn’t have done it if I’d had any doubt about that) and we were already cohabitating anyway — we only lived a few miles apart, so we were spending every night together already. Going back and forth between apartments was getting REALLY old, so it just made sense, both financially and for our relationship, to move in together.
We are getting a hotel for our wedding night just because we thought it seemed lame to come back to our messy apartment that night.
Congrats on the apartment! Very exciting.
We moved in together after having dated for 8 months, and I’m so glad we did. They say the first year of marriage is the hardest, but I think a lot of that boils down to the fact that traditionally, the man and wife have just moved in together and are figuring each other out still. We went through ROCKY times when we first moved in together but made it through the storms, and things are great now. I think (hope) that marriage will be a smooth transition because of this…
We lived together for almost a year before he proposed. I would not have had it any other way.
We’ve been together for almost seven years, and lived together for about five of those years. I think it made it obvious we could make marriage work - there have been times when we were tired of seeing each other (especially when we evacuated to Dallas for hurricane Katrina and were stuck in a hotel room with nothing to do for weeks), but we made it through all of that and still love each other. I guess those who don’t co-habitate pre-wedding get to experience that excitement, but I wouldn’t have it any other way. Besides, even when we were both living in our own apartments, we were always together, either at his place or mine. It just seemed silly to be paying rent on two places.
We’ve been together for 3 years (4 when we tie the knot) but we will be waiting to live together for after the wedding. I’m excited to wake up next to him for the first time the morning after our wedding, and getting to learn those little things about each other after marriage.
Secrets to successful cohabitating:
1. Separate closets
2. Separate sinks
3. Flexibility as you work out how you did things alone and how you will do things together.
It was SUPER easy for us (& we even had 2 kids thrown into the mix!!)
@iviary: LOL! Very perceptive! Yup, both Mr. Bruschetta and I were Starbuckians for about two years (mine during grad school, his during college and grad school). I still *heart* the gingerbread latte something fierce.
He started crashing with me and my roommates after a lease ran out and we officially got our first place together a few months ago. Surprisingly, and probably because we spent so much time as de facto roommates in college, we haven’t had ANY conflicts about it. In his own place he was a total slob, which worried me a bit, but since we now have a place that’s nice enough to entertain in, he takes more pride in it and (usually) does his fair share of cleaning. Living together is the best thing that’s happened to us because we didn’t have to schedule time anymore. I’m so glad we didn’t wait another moment.
After a really bad previous relationship (one of those closet crazies…), moving in together was pretty much mandatory to me so that I could be sure there weren’t any skeletons in the closet. Lucky me: he’s as fabulous as I thought he was, and he proposed within a few months of the big move!
i moved in with my fiance about a year and a half ago but we were living with his dad so it wasn’t really our own place. Then about 6 months in, his sister moved out from michigan and moved in with us too. Now 4 people in a 3 bedroom house. 2 girls with lots of clothes! ahhhh i’ve been going crazy living with them. we are getting married in june and we just found an apartment last week! I am beyone excited and pretty much feeling like Miss Bruschetta. It feels so good to be moving out! We get the keys tomorrow! yay!
When my fiance and I moved in together, we knew we would end up getting married eventually, but weren’t even engaged at that point. Still, the timing worked out perfectly for us, and I haven’t regretted it since (and we’ve been living together for nearly two years). I’m a huge proponent of living together before marriage. Even the best relationships are strained when a couple moves in together, and (IMO), it’s best to deal with all of that stress before marriage. It took us a few months to get into a routine, but in the end it brought us so much closer. I’m so happy to know I don’t have to worry about the stress of moving in with my fiance for the first time after our wedding.
I lived in Boston, MA, and he lived in Savannah, GA, for the first year and four months of our relationship, so living together was not an option. I finished school last week and was able to move back South over the weekend!!! I am going to live with my parents in Augusta, GA, until our wedding in May, but all my stuff is at our apartment, and I am currently in the process of unpacking it, integrating our belongings, moving furniture, and realizing (in my best Monica Gellar Bing voice) I HAVE TO LIVE WITH A BOY! I have lived by myself seven of the past eight years, so living with anyone, much less a guy! What an adjustment. (But one I am MORE than happy to make in six short weeks!)
Mr. SE and I are moving together once I graduate in May. We were planning on being engaged by Christmas (ie. 4-5 months ago), but due to economic woes it got pushed back. We’re still planning a wedding for spring 2010, but the official engagement won’t be until the spring. Your post was fantastic and due to the amount of comments something that with a lot of us are dealing with. I’ll probably share this with Mr. SE
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Mrs. Bruschetta, Philadelphia
Age and Occupation: 25, Communication Professional
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 25, Physical Therapy Graduate Student
Engagement Date: November 30, 2007
Wedding Date: August 2009
Venue: St. Thomas of Villanova Church & the F.U.E.L. House
About Me: I’m a self-proclaimed grammar geek who loves singing (like, really belting it) in the car. My mister and I are planning a vibrant summer soiree celebrating our passions – including food and Philly – and when we make it official, we’ll have been together for eight years! Being super competitive is in my nature, and talking excessively is in my genes. I’ve got a terrible sense of direction, but can always easily find my way into Mr. Bruschetta’s arms.
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