This is great! Congratulations.

They've been going with "birth control goggles/glasses"

Dummy changed out of his uniform just before he popped the question, so the actual engagement photos (which I have yet to acquire from family members) are of me in dress clothes and him in a t-shirt and shorts...but at least he's got normal glasses on in those :D

You have been busy! Congrats! :thumb:

Congrats Razz

Congratulations Razz. That's wonderful news. He's a lucky fella. :)

Sorry for the delay... but here's a photo of the ring!

http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l7...2-resized2.jpg

Very nice. Just like mine. Only bigger. :D

srsly, though, love the classic simplicity.

I'd like to second all the congrats messages and flag that I really like Chocolatl's message.

[quote=Chocolatl;670449] "May you spend many happy years together, working things out because you love each other."[/QUOTE

Beautiful! Nice ring too!

I'm very happy for you both. :)

The ring is actually a family heirloom from my dad's family, according to my grandmother and my mother, the story is thus:

The stone was first set in a man's 14k gold ring with crossed golf clubs (the stone was the ball). It was designed by my great grandmother for her husband. When he died, she kept the ring and eventually it was given to my grandfather as a gift. He then set it into an engagement ring for my grandmother in January of 1951. In 1986 it was given to my father to be re-set and presented to my mother. They divorced, and my mother held onto the ring for several years. In 1996 there was a large flood in the area which completely destroyed my mother's house and all of her belongings. Somehow, though most of the items were swept out of the house or destroyed and moved within it, the ring sat exactly where it was left in its ring box on the bathroom sink. At that time it was given back to my grandmother for safekeeping with the understanding that it would return to me when I was an adult. It was given to Ben when he asked my hand, and I am currently wearing my mother's setting.


I'm the last one with my last name, and no, I don't intend to keep it. It makes me pretty sad because we can trace our family line back to the 1600's so I'm really glad to have my own little link with our family that I can pass down to my children eventually.

Thanks for listening to my story! I know it's way more exciting for me than it is for everyone else!

Lovely, Razz. Wishing you years of smiles and laughter! :)

Razz... that's a lovely story of the ring.
Please write it down and put it in the ring box for safe keeping for the next generation.

And don't get worked up about your maiden name...
Just ask my daughter (Mrs Rachael Anne Mxxxx-Bxxxx)
(That just may have been a stipulation in her acceptance of the marriage proposal) ;)

I don't think I'm worked up per say, it's just a little sad. My grandparents had 2 girls and one boy, one girl never had kids, the other girl had sons, and the boy had a daughter, it happens. It also just so happens that my aunt likes to research lineage and so I know a little more about my family name than most people do (for example, I also know what it was before it got butchered at ellis island ;) )

She's currently researching my SO's family name, and she's got him all the way back into Ireland at this point, so I'm taking another good name, it's just a little sad that mine dies out for it. I like having the connection to my family, it's hard to get my dad's side to talk about their past. (Probably why my aunt did the research in the first place)

Why not ask him to take your name? It's not so unusual these days

Because if I take his and he takes mine, well things will get very confusing for the families around christmas.