I''m brand new to this site. I''ve been reading but have never posted before. Here goes.
OK, so my boyfriend (fiance) finally just went ahead and formally asked me two nights ago. We have been talking about it for a while and I figured the engagement wouldn''t happen until later this summer. We are both law students and didn''t have a ton of money, but we both have summer jobs in a big firms this summer, so the money is finally coming in. Anyway, he hasn''t gotten a ring yet--he just felt impulsive and asked me the other night while we were laying on the bed, watching the really cool thunderstorm outside the huge picture window. The storm was romantic and he just turned to me and asked if I would marry him. We are going ring shopping this weekend. (I haven''t really told many people because I don''t have the ring yet and wanted to avoid the awkward "Can I see your ring?!")
Anyway, he wanted to ask me before I went away for the weekend NEXT weekend with my parents, so that I could tell them in person. My parents are picking me up as they drive through Washington, DC on their way to South Carolina for the weekend. We are going there because my brother and his wife will be there visitng my relatives and so my mom wants to throw them a post-wedding shower. (They had a very small wedding--just my parents--three months ago after a 1-week engagement). Anyway, this will be the first time any of my relatives will be meeting his wife, so I need to know whether it is appropriate to announce my engagement while down there, or if this will be stealing their thunder. I know they won''t care, but I am wondering whether it would be tacky of me, to announce that I am getting married (and the wedding will be in August 2004) during the same weekend that our relatives want to make a big fuss over Tehila.
Any advice? Should I jsut wait to tell my parents until after we get home?
OK, so my boyfriend (fiance) finally just went ahead and formally asked me two nights ago. We have been talking about it for a while and I figured the engagement wouldn''t happen until later this summer. We are both law students and didn''t have a ton of money, but we both have summer jobs in a big firms this summer, so the money is finally coming in. Anyway, he hasn''t gotten a ring yet--he just felt impulsive and asked me the other night while we were laying on the bed, watching the really cool thunderstorm outside the huge picture window. The storm was romantic and he just turned to me and asked if I would marry him. We are going ring shopping this weekend. (I haven''t really told many people because I don''t have the ring yet and wanted to avoid the awkward "Can I see your ring?!")
Anyway, he wanted to ask me before I went away for the weekend NEXT weekend with my parents, so that I could tell them in person. My parents are picking me up as they drive through Washington, DC on their way to South Carolina for the weekend. We are going there because my brother and his wife will be there visitng my relatives and so my mom wants to throw them a post-wedding shower. (They had a very small wedding--just my parents--three months ago after a 1-week engagement). Anyway, this will be the first time any of my relatives will be meeting his wife, so I need to know whether it is appropriate to announce my engagement while down there, or if this will be stealing their thunder. I know they won''t care, but I am wondering whether it would be tacky of me, to announce that I am getting married (and the wedding will be in August 2004) during the same weekend that our relatives want to make a big fuss over Tehila.
Any advice? Should I jsut wait to tell my parents until after we get home?