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Title: OMG - I'm engaged!
Post by: donut82 on 15 December 2007, 22:56:40
Shouldn't really be a suprise cause I asked her but she could have said no. ;D

It was my other half's (Amy) birthday last wednesday and I splashed out. Took her down to London for a few days and stayed at the Hilton in Kensington. Saw lots of the sights and had a couple of good nights out and proposed to her while we were down there.

I go to London all the time but only the industrial and run down areas never get to see the good parts so it was a good break for us too.

One sore point though - How much do London taxi's cost?!?
I spent £100 on taxi's in 3 days! Never missed the Omega and my heated seats so much, congestion charge even seems reasonable at those prices.

Saw Gordon Brown's convoy go over Westminster Bridge. The man who wants us to be eco friendly and blah blah has 2 police motorbikes stopping traffic, a 5 series BMW, a 7 seat Mercedes Vito, a BMW X5 and his Jag XJ in the middle!! F**king hypocrit! >:(

I did OOF proud though as I gave him the middle finger treatment as he went by......childish but appropriate.

Start saving for a wedding now, don't really want a traditional church wedding, bit boring. Leaning towards a venue in Ireland where we can do the whole lot in one place, so if anybody has any leads the would be gatefully received. Aiming for 2010, thought we may aswell be realistic.

Oh and I'm having problems remembering to call her my fiancee instead of my girlfriend, gets me in abit of hot water......sounds like a marriage already  ;D ;D ;D
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Post by: x25xe on 15 December 2007, 23:10:11
Congratulations and I wish you all the best.
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Post by: cem_devecioglu on 15 December 2007, 23:13:20
Congrats  :y

Bi yast[ch305]kta kocay[ch305]n ( means : together become old in the same pillow  :) )
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Post by: Entwood on 15 December 2007, 23:18:36
Congratulations    :y :y

Just remember ...

Shortest sentence in the English language - I am.

Longest sentence in the English language - I do.

:)

He says .. having been happily married to the same woman for 31 years    :)
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Post by: MikeDundee on 15 December 2007, 23:28:30
Congrats all the best for the future :y
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Post by: Baron Von Spongebob on 15 December 2007, 23:30:12
Good for you and congrats too  :y
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Post by: Crazydad on 15 December 2007, 23:31:29
Congratulations, i wish you both all the best for the Future :y :y
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Post by: CaptainZok on 15 December 2007, 23:35:10
Congratulations to you both.  :y
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Post by: Tony H on 15 December 2007, 23:44:51
congrats to you both :)
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Post by: donut82 on 16 December 2007, 00:08:21
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Congrats  :y

Bi yast[ch305]kta kocay[ch305]n ( means : together become old in the same pillow  :) )

I like that, no idea how to pronounce it but I like it :y

Cheers for all the congrats people.
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Post by: Cav9_4 on 16 December 2007, 00:11:33
CONGRATS...and all the best for the future :y
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Post by: Elite Pete on 16 December 2007, 09:38:45
Congratulations :y

My eldest Daughter got married in Santorini, Greece in July this year. It was a brilliant do and it cost half of what it would cost over here which I thought was nice  ;D
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Post by: ghondie on 16 December 2007, 09:45:21
madness, all that money that can be going toward meega's.
seriously congratulations and good luck to the both of you  8-)
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Post by: Markie on 16 December 2007, 10:07:51
congratulations matey - nice way to propose  :y

Marriage has its ups as well as downs. Im sure ive had 2 maybe 3 ups in the last 6 years  ;D :-X
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Post by: Tab on 16 December 2007, 10:13:50
congratulations to you both mate.

glad to hear you give gordon brown the bird aswell, lmao.
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Post by: JiMbOb789 on 16 December 2007, 12:24:13
Congragulations!!!! ;)
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Post by: Crazydad on 16 December 2007, 14:40:46
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Congrats  :y

Bi yast[ch305]kta kocay[ch305]n ( means : together become old in the same pillow  :) )


are you sure that does`nt mean " the old white stuff on your pillow is not cocaine ::) ::)
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Post by: Martin_1962 on 16 December 2007, 16:38:44
Congratulations - any pictures of the happy couple?

Enjoy yourself and now you don't have to try so hard ;D
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Post by: Dave-C on 16 December 2007, 20:24:50
Nice one mister!  Congrats to the future Mrs Donut too!!!!!!

 Dave C ::)
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Post by: donut82 on 16 December 2007, 20:36:26
A picture of me and Amy, and one of Amy before we went down to London then.
Don't have to try too hard?!!??........oh no just got to save for the wedding now  ;D ;D

(http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c193/donut82/Random/S4020720.jpg)

(http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c193/donut82/Random/S4020767.jpg)

 :y
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Post by: Golfbuddy on 16 December 2007, 20:47:24
If you don't mind I'll share a little story with you.

It was August 21st 1993. It was a Saturday morning about 10.00 and I was lying in bed. My girlfriend had gone downstairs to make me a cup of coffee and I was just lying there thinking how nice it was to be here in the warmth of the morning sun and having a nice cup of coffee being brought up to me.

Suddenly, a dreadful thought entered my head. Was it the 20th or the 21st??? Her birthday is the 21st but what day is it today?? A quick look on CeeFax confirmed my worst nightmare. I had forgotten her birthday and hadn't bought her a present. What could I do??

I heard the footsteps coming up the stairs and I started to sweat. Panic set in as she walked into the room with the coffee and said 'Good Morning'.

Quick as a flash I said, 'You think I've forgotten your birthday don't you?'

'I don't know' she said 'Why, have you?'

'Of course not, I just didn't want to get you something you wouldn't like' I said. Then the master stroke. 'How would you like an engagement ring?'

And the rest, as they say, is history.

The moral of the story? Forgetting your girlfriend's birthday really can cost you for the rest of your life, beware.  ;D ;D ;D
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Post by: Dave-C on 16 December 2007, 20:51:14
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A picture of me and Amy, and one of Amy before we went down to London then.
Don't have to try too hard?!!??........oh no just got to save for the wedding now  ;D ;D

(http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c193/donut82/Random/S4020720.jpg)

(http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c193/donut82/Random/S4020767.jpg)

 :y

Amy's blue shirt is lovely ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Post by: Martin_1962 on 16 December 2007, 21:41:03
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If you don't mind I'll share a little story with you.

It was August 21st 1993. It was a Saturday morning about 10.00 and I was lying in bed. My girlfriend had gone downstairs to make me a cup of coffee and I was just lying there thinking how nice it was to be here in the warmth of the morning sun and having a nice cup of coffee being brought up to me.

Suddenly, a dreadful thought entered my head. Was it the 20th or the 21st??? Her birthday is the 21st but what day is it today?? A quick look on CeeFax confirmed my worst nightmare. I had forgotten her birthday and hadn't bought her a present. What could I do??

I heard the footsteps coming up the stairs and I started to sweat. Panic set in as she walked into the room with the coffee and said 'Good Morning'.

Quick as a flash I said, 'You think I've forgotten your birthday don't you?'

'I don't know' she said 'Why, have you?'

'Of course not, I just didn't want to get you something you wouldn't like' I said. Then the master stroke. 'How would you like an engagement ring?'

And the rest, as they say, is history.

The moral of the story? Forgetting your girlfriend's birthday really can cost you for the rest of your life, beware.  ;D ;D ;D


I got married that day!!!!!!
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Post by: Martin_1962 on 16 December 2007, 21:41:41
You both look happy - good luck for the future :y
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Post by: VXL V6 on 17 December 2007, 09:29:13
Congratulations to you both
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Post by: Marks DTM Calib on 17 December 2007, 09:34:39
Good news and good luck.....

I remember it well.....she decided to she wanted to get married 7 months later which realy buggered the savings up!
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Post by: theolodian on 17 December 2007, 09:40:29
Aw, you're smitten, isn't that cute!  :D

Congrats!  :y

We got engaged this time last year.  Got married in Prague, it was super cheap and really nice.  
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Post by: Kevin Wood on 17 December 2007, 09:42:17
Congratulations!

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I remember it well.....she decided to she wanted to get married 7 months later which realy buggered the savings up!

You're not wrong there! We quickly realised that if you mention the "M" word when booking anything there's an immediate 100% markup applied because they figure you'll be to starry eyed to care about being sh@fted. ::)

Kevin
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Post by: theolodian on 17 December 2007, 09:44:52
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Congratulations!

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I remember it well.....she decided to she wanted to get married 7 months later which realy buggered the savings up!

You're not wrong there! We quickly realised that if you mention the "M" word when booking anything there's an immediate 100% markup applied because they figure you'll be to starry eyed to care about being sh@fted. ::)

Kevin
The restaurant threw in our wedding cake for free, I was stunned!  :o
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Post by: Kevin Wood on 17 December 2007, 09:51:48
Despite having ours in a tent on my parents lawn I still dread to think what it cost. In fact, there are 2 things in my life that I've never dared to count the cost of: Building a kit car and getting married. I have all the receipts in both cases, it's just that if I added them up and saw the final figure I'd probably die of shock.

Thing is I reckon the kit car total would be significantly below the wedding total, so, if we hadn't... :-X

Kevin
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Post by: Marks DTM Calib on 17 December 2007, 10:11:31
10330 quid including the honeymoon (Kenya Safari)
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Post by: A380 Elite on 17 December 2007, 11:18:00
Congratulations on your engagement, all the best.  :y
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Post by: Martin_1962 on 17 December 2007, 11:39:19
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10330 quid including the honeymoon (Kenya Safari)


 :o :o :o :o
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Post by: Marks DTM Calib on 17 December 2007, 11:58:53
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10330 quid including the honeymoon (Kenya Safari)


 :o :o :o :o

Tell me about it but, the honeymoon was 3400 quid.....

Cheap by modern standards in reality.
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Post by: donut82 on 19 December 2007, 17:53:40
I reckon I can save up about £6000 for it which isn't too shabby I don't think. We just want something nice but simple but more upmarket than a registery office. A nice country house that will do the whole lot or something :)
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Post by: Paul M on 19 December 2007, 19:51:39
Keep it up guys, you lot are making me feel like a right spring chicken with all this talk of weddings n stuff ;D

It's probably a good idea I don't intend ever getting married, with my rate of expenditure on cars, bikes and (mainly) partying, I'll be about 106 before I've saved enough for a wedding with the figures being posted around here   ::)

Congrats matey... get out there and be a little wild before the leash tightens ;)
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Post by: theolodian on 20 December 2007, 00:33:29
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I reckon I can save up about £6000 for it which isn't too shabby I don't think. We just want something nice but simple but more upmarket than a registery office. A nice country house that will do the whole lot or something :)
That should do nicely. We spent far less than that and it was a lot nicer than a registry office.
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Post by: Paulus on 20 December 2007, 07:44:17
I think mine came to about £4.59...but I haven't had a honeymoon yet...I've been married for 4-and-a-bit years. :-[