engaged friends?

[lulu66]

just wondering if anyone else had close friends who were engaged at the same time. what did you do together? did/do you like the experience?

i got engaged in august. i kid my FI that he started engagement frenzy among my friends by october one of my good friends (and bridesmaids) was engaged. she''s wanting to get married october 2010; so, we''ll be married within a month of each other. we joke that we should just have a double wedding. and i have another friend (and bridesmaid) who has been seriously discussing getting engaged; but she''s pretty sure it will be a little while before the actual engagement. one of my other close friends made a comment to another friend that if she gets engaged around the holidays (what they''re planning), they''ll be married by spring/early summer.

for me, it''s been fun so far. i have some else with "wedding brain." we chit chat & bounce ideas off each other. but i have found i have to work hard to make the unengaged bridesmaid not feel left out.

 

[sunnyd]

We bounced ideas and talked about stuff. It was really fun having someone be as obsessed as weddings as I was (okay, still am

).

 

[ladypirate]

Well, a friend of mine was engaged and it was really fun, but then they called it off, so now it''s kind of awkward.

 

[FrekeChild]

My FSIL got engaged 3 months after we were (we think our engagement really spurred her FI into motion since they are much older and have been together much longer) and it has just been AWKWARD. For me at least. She is 40 and her FI is 48, they are paying for their wedding themselves and it''s in April 2011--over two years after their engagement.

And it''s hard because my dad is paying for our wedding, and while I have cut costs where I could, their wedding will be extremely budget conscious. And well, ours isn''t. Plus the generation gap. So while I thought that we could talk about it, and be brides together, it''s not working out like that. Because every time I bring up something and mention any kind of cost/price, she''ll instantly come back with a "I''d never pay that much for that." or something similar.