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Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

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Update: Nick is no longer single, and saving for an engagement ring for the most amazing woman.

Just thought I would let you all know. I guess if you get too comfortable being single, you find somebody. Weird.

That is wonderful!!! [Big Grin]

Congrats.

[ March 12, 2005, 10:43 PM: Message edited by: rivka ]

Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :

How nice! Congrats to him.

Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :

Awwww! You know, I didn't want an engagement ring. We had a little argument over it; I finally gave in when I realized that my family and friends weren't going to recognize the engagement without a ring. [Roll Eyes]

So I told him to get me silver, and by no means more than $100.

Will wonders never cease, he listened to me!

Posted by Da_Goat (Member # 5529) on :

Congrats, dude! But boo for not keepin' us filled in.

Are you still working at Starbucks? Is your fiancee a worker there?

Email me or something sometime if you get a chance.

ketchupqueen, I plan on using a rubber band for an engagement ring, but going all out for my wedding ring. If, you know, I ever get married.

Posted by gnixing (Member # 768) on :

goat.. at least go with a quarter machine ring or one of those candy rings... a rubber band is not even slightly cute.

edit: spelling

[ January 28, 2005, 02:59 AM: Message edited by: gnixing ]

Posted by gnixing (Member # 768) on :

and congrats nick!! fill us in with details!

Posted by Da_Goat (Member # 5529) on :

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goat.. at least go with a quarter machine ring or one of those candy rings... a rubber band is not even slightly cute.

It'll be a PINK rubber band. Pink is always at least "slightly cute".

[ January 28, 2005, 03:02 AM: Message edited by: Da_Goat ]

Posted by Rappin' Ronnie Reagan (Member # 5626) on :

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It'll be a PINK rubber band. Pink is always at least "slightly cute".

I'd say yes. I like pink.

Congrats, Nick. [Smile]

Posted by MyrddinFyre (Member # 2576) on :

Details!!

[Smile]

Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :

Congrats.

Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :

Happy, Happy! Joy, Joy!!

Share....I don't know you but share anyway....news of marriage should be spread far and wide.....unless your eloping [Angst]

......just kidding... [Big Grin]

Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :

Nick?

Ol' Nick?

St. Nick?

Who's this Nick person?

Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :

You could always go with a string, or twine.

The first recorded engagement ring wasn't given until 1477, and came as a direct result of Pope Innocent III's declaration that there should be a waiting period between betrothal and the wedding.

The first wedding rings were in Africa. Egypt along the Nile, actually.

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Sedges, rushes and reeds, growing alongside the well-known papyrus were twisted and braided into rings for fingers

Might be kind of unique and if you make it out of leather or something, it could really last quite a while. I like the idea of tying a string on the finger, personally.

Did you also know that it only became US custom for men to wear wedding bands during WWII to remind them of their wives at home?

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

I would totally love a pink rubber band! [Big Grin]

I did the big engagement ring thing. [Razz]

Didn't work out so well. I figure, next time (I hope there IS a next time -- and just one) I want no engagement ring. Instead, for our ten-year anniversary, I want an eternity band.

Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :

I still can't find mine. O_O It's here SOMEwhere...with my class ring, and my father's wedding ring.

Nick! I'm so happy for you [Smile]

*misses nick*

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

*snort* And you gave Nathan a hard time about his license -- took him less than a week to find that.

[Laugh]

Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :

HE didn't find it. I did. [Razz]

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

Ah.

So that makes it his job to find your ring, neh?

Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :

Exactly.

Posted by tt&t (Member # 5600) on :

Nick! Wow! That's awesome! Congrats! [Big Grin]

EMAIL ME or else!

Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :

I am holding Macks ring hostage until she actaully shows up for the dinner party qwe had planned for her and Nate....

At this rate she will get it about 2031.....

[Big Grin]

Kwea

Posted by Vána (Member # 6593) on :

Hey Nick! Are you ever going to come around and see all these congratulations?

[The Wave]

Posted by Nick (Member # 4311) on :

Wow, I never had any idea this was noticed...

I haven't been around in a while. Well, she is very nice and cute. I'm still working for Starbucks, and I'm going to school to be a auto technician, and hopefully a service manager at a car dealership.

I missed Hatrack, but I just spent way too much time in front of the computer.

EDIT: Just to catch you guys up. I've stopped being to lazy, lost 50 lbs, got a new car... yeah, I've changed me life a little bit. [Smile]

[ February 24, 2005, 01:13 AM: Message edited by: Nick ]

Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :

Congrats, Nick. [Smile]

Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :

Amazing what the love of a good woman can do.

Or any woman, really....

(NOT a poke at you or her, just a little honesty... [Big Grin]

)

Posted by Nick (Member # 4311) on :

She said yes!
[Big Grin]

*engaged*

Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :

YAY! [The Wave]

Mazeltov!!!

Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :

WOOOOOOO!!!!!! HUZZAH!!

Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :

Yay!! [Smile]

Posted by Beren One Hand (Member # 3403) on :

[Cool]

Posted by Shan (Member # 4550) on :

Wow! Way to go and congratulations!

[The Wave]

Posted by tt&t (Member # 5600) on :

Awesome! Congrats! [Big Grin]

Posted by Myr (Member # 5956) on :

Holy WOW! Congrats buddy!!!!!1one

Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :

quote:
The first recorded engagement ring wasn't given until 1477

Wikipedia thinks it's earlier.

I'm not sure but I thought it was Roman Donatios (I think that's the word) that started the practice. The bride was presented with an iron ring...

Posted by Corwin (Member # 5705) on :

Huzzah!!! [The Wave]

Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :

Congrats!!!!!!! [The Wave]

Posted by esl (Member # 3143) on :

yay Nick and wife-to-be! Happy Day!

Posted by gnixing (Member # 768) on :

ok nick, how did you propose?? details??

congrats!!

Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :

[Cool]

(obscure smilies!) Congrats!

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

Congrats! [Big Grin]

And yes, as nixy asked, details, por favor?

[Party]

Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :

Damn, forget one word and the whole thing falls apart.

Let me say it correctly this time.

The first recorded diamond engagement ring, was given by the King of Germany, Maximilian I, to Mary of Burgundy in 1477.