So I went to a wedding on Saturday...
#203701 - 08/08/05 08:06 PM
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..for someone my age (21) and it was totally weird! I can't believe that people I know are already getting married. And this is the 3rd one this summer.
But anyways just thought I'd share a few pictures of me and the pretty dress I changed my mind to get the night before. I was the prettiest girl at the wedding 
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Fabulous dress Brittany! That color is really flattering on you!
I know what you mean about people our age getting married ... almost everyone I know has either gotten married or pregnant, or divorced ... and all under 25 
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#203715 - 08/08/05 08:59 PM
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Thanks!!
And I know what you mean! I just feel like I still have so much growing and changing to do before I'm the person I want to be when I'm married. There are way too many variables that will change once these people graduate from college in a year. No wonder why so many people get divorced!
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awesome dress! i love yellow!
anyways.. I know so many people engaged and/or getting married this summer! two of which are my old roomates and one is getting married this saturday on my birthday! needless to say I won't be going to that one, although I would have loved to. However, somehow I think turning 24 alone at my old roomates wedding on my birthday would make me feeling even more single than I am.. haha its so weird though. Don't you feel like an old maid!! 
anyways.. this week I won't be going to florida after all  we're gonna stay around the beaches in virginia. but i'll let you know if we ever head that way.
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I think it's better to wait a bit. I got married at 21 and I love my husband dearly but boy it is SO hard to grow as a couple when you haven't finished growing yet (or barely started to for that matter). Great dress btw! You look amazing It's so nice to see colour on people!
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Very beautiful pictures! I love the dress...the colour looks great 
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Haha I married my hubby 6 days before my 21st birthday and I was the oldest out of my mom, sister and brother. They were 19 and 20. I had Maddie 13 months later and we have been married 8 1/2 years. I love your dress and you look so pretty.
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In the last year and a half, a friend of mine got married at 18, two people in my school (one a freshman the other a sophmore) got engaged, and one of my closer friends got married at 20. Not to mention the other 3 engagements at school between graduating seniors I know.
As someone about to turn 20, it scares me sometimes to think that people I know or grew up with are getting married. Sometimes it makes me feel old (ducks the shoes from other board members older than me).
Avidan
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Why'd you have to go and make me so constipated?
--'Weird' Al Yankovic, "A Complicated Song"
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Wow, 21 does seem young. I'm 25 and I only have 1 married friend and she got married at 24. I think getting married young nowadays is the exception and not the rule. Alot of people are waiting longer to get married now (until their late 20s and early to mid 30s) it seems because of university education & getting established in a career. Definitely there's no rush for marriage b/c as you said you do go through a lot of changes from the time you're 21 until you decide to get married. I've been dating my boyfriend now for 2 yrs and we've talked about getting married but I don't think it will happen until I'm 27 b/c I'm going back this Sept for teacher's college.
Jenn
p.s> I love your dress, it's very pretty.
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I definitely agree with you. I think getting married younger was done more also when our parents were our age, but our society is much more global these days and people aren't as ready to get settled in one place so soon.
I think you're smart to wait another couple years. Good luck to you and your boyfriend
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Ok you win on that one
It is weird to know people around you are getting married. And in the past couple years I've already been to a couple funerals too. It's amazing how suddenly being an adult hits you.
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Wow! And you were the oldest? That's great!
Glad everything worked out so well!
And PS thanks for the compliment
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Thanks! Now I just have to find other excuses to wear it again to make it worth how much it cost  
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Too bad you don't have that yellow toilet seat to go with my dress!
And I think you made the right decision to not go to that wedding on your birthday - that would definitely be a depressing scenario!
Bummer about the Florida thing, especially since we've finally hit a little break in the heat. But I hope you have tons of fun in Virginia!
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Just remember that anything that doesn't hit me I can throw back!
Avidan
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Why'd you have to go and make me so constipated?
--'Weird' Al Yankovic, "A Complicated Song"
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Wow, you look great in that dress! I love that color on you! Yellow is one of my favorite colors but I can't wear it, it makes me look ill, I do better with deeper, darker colors! I bet you were the prettiest girl there!
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Taking it one day at a time.....
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and am thankful. Though marriage isn't easy no matter how old or young you are, I have no regrets. I like the idea of growing oold together...we are growing up together too. Our 20th anniversary is in January...I cherish every day!
My sisters and I all got married young...I wonder if it is because our mother married young?
My wish for my children is that they wait until they are at least 25 years old...older for my son. Only GOd knows...
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Have a blessed day!...Rachel
stable and sooooooo thankful!
I have IBS but it doesn't have me!
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GORGEOUS DRESS! You have great taste!
And some beautiful pictures of you as well! 
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I agree about it being weird with a bunch of people you know getting married! I'm 22, and I know two couples the same age getting married next month, plus I've heard about a lot of people I graduated high school with getting married this summer. And my best girl friend got engaged this weekend (but she's not getting married until Fall '07 because she doesn't want to even start planning the wedding until after we graduate in June '06). It makes me feel old and kinda weird since I'm not really in any rush to get married myself.
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Friendship is thicker than blood. ~Rent
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OOOlllaaaalllaaa....baby!! Lovin the dress.... YELLOW is totally your color!!
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I don't know if I would say I got married young, I was 22 and my husband was 23. I guess that's young to others. I knew I was making the right decision at the right time, so the chronological age I was didn't really affect anything.
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Love the dress! It looks great on you.
I had a friend who got married when she was 19. They are still together (ulp) 14 years later. Me, on the other hand, I cannot imagine being married at 19 or even in my early 20s. I still had a lot of confidence to gain and a lot to learn about myself at that age. I didn't get married until I was 32, and even then, it was sort of a surprise because I'd always figured I'd never get married at all!
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Thanks Michele!! I've decided I really like wearing yellow now. I never thought it would be my color. I think it also really depends on the shade of it too. Stores like the Gap kept coming out with highlighter yellow colors in things and those definitely weren't for me.
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Wow 19! I just couldn't ever imagine that for myself. I'm with you, I think that I have a lot of personal growing to do before I'm ready to get married.
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Thanks Shell!! I think I need to start investing in more yellow clothes. They make me feel more tan too!
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I think there's some wedding bug going around and biting people. I for one do not want to be bit yet!
It's weird too cause I'm like you and definitely in no rush to get married yet, but sitting there dateless at a wedding sure is weird!
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What day is your anniversary? Ours is Jan. 11th.
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Thanks Tina!! I was appalled at what some people wore to the wedding though. I guess that's what you get when most of the guests are college-aged. But one girl was wearing dirty white cheap flip flops with her dress. And some were dressed way to trashy. Amazing.
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Yeah that's what I think. I'm glad things worked out for you though!
And thanks for the compliment! I figured I'd take advantage of the whole summer florida wedding thing and wear a bright color when I could get away with it.
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You were dressed VERY classy. Where did you get that dress?
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I got married at 26, but I had wanted to get married much earlier, and wasn't sure why my husband was waiting so long to ask me (we dated 8 years before we got married---geez, that's a long time!), but looking back, I'm glad we waited. I thought I'd have kids by 24 and now here I am pushing 29 and no babies yet. But I hope to be a mom before 30.
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Look at how straight your hair is!! You look wonderful!!
~nelly~
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