Posted on 07/16/2010 10:40:17 PM PDT by Global2010
Curious.
We have had 4 ladies (in our small careprovider service) of various ages in our remote PNWw area announce they are getting married.
One of our most effeciant fellow work persons is not going to "I do" but be in the "wedding party" (so that would make 5 weddings)
All these folks have kindly invited our Family..
They all work really close with us.
So I thought. Coincidence?
Which led me to think "I will do a FR vanity"
We really do live in a remote part of the USA.
So can anyone chime in if they have perhaps seen a surnge of folks commiting to the "I Do, I Do"?
Curious on the PNW Coast.
We have one wedding on our calendar, in August. I don’t think there is any trend, but a whole social group kind of moves together, I think. There was a cluster of weddings in our social circles over the span of a couple of years when my husband and I got married. And then no more wedding invitations for a couple of years. Now, it’s about once every two years that a wedding invitation comes up.
and your SN is....lol
Thanks for chiming in.
Where abouts in the PNW do you live? I lived in Neah Bay when I was really young?
I have four weddings this summer. That’s the norm for a spring/summer for me.
No, but I wish more “committed” people would go ahead and get married! There is a very nice young couple across the road from us who just had their SECOND baby ... and no, they’re not married. Wish I knew them better, I’d smack ‘em upside the head and say, “Get married already!”
I have one more wedding to attend (my “niece” via best friend), and then I will probably never have to attend another wedding in my life (unless God intends for me to get married.) There do seem to be cycles, probably a generational thing.
I’ve been honored to attend the weddings I’ve been invited to, but I won’t mind never having to go to a reception again. My mother, OTOH, loves wedding cake and weddings in general.
Yep I couldn’t agree with you more.
One of my “Male/man” contractors laughed and said “what ever happen to marraige first, then the babies”..
I am very happy these future/next month husbands are stepping up and doing the right thing.
I am going through the “change of life” and so I will choose to be seated in the back...I have never been one to cry but with the natural change in life I cry at a whim.
So witnessing these folks proclaim there Love before God and guests is gonna make me gush tears of joy.
Got it.
(regarding your FRmail)
Your SN is appropriately on topic. : )
Yes!!!
OH and we have not been on the invite to wedding list in over 2 decades.
Let alone them all working closely with us daily.
Yum, I forgot about wedding cake.
LOL we live so rural there is only 1 place all these gals are going to purchase their cakes from.
And all the themes are alike “Boot Scootin Boogy” akd Country style and at State Parks.
I don’t choose to drink but we have a WC Bus (like city transit size/short).
So even though guests are going to “camp” out we are providing “rides” to those who want to sip from the Keg.
We donated our time to drive for drinkers to the Huge Seafood and Wine fest our City is known for.
LOL Taxi cab conffessions that was.
But all good folks.
And generous donations/hugs/kisses.
Also living in the Pacific NW. Been to two weddings this year, and both young brides were within a few weeks of their babies due date. Oh well, at least the groom did the right thing, and gave the child a Dad.
I agree.
One of the brides to be is post kid days.
The one thing I noticed with all these Brides to be is the “glow” of being made honorable woman.
It is wonderful to see them beaming.
I hope the trend continues.
Living in a retirement communtiy (Central Oregon Coast) its nice to share in “new begginings”.
Too many obits around here.
Too many good humans leaving our lives unexpectantly too.
What is "PNWw"?
[...] One of our most effeciant fellow work persons [...]
What you are describing could be attributable to the so-called "observational effect." I don't know, but you (and, correspondingly, your friends, acquaintances, and "fellow work persons") could simply happen to belong to (or be entering into) a certain demographic cohort (say, 25 to 35-year olds) in which, naturally, people tend to get married.
By the same token, a 20-year-old might be dismayed at the fact that more and more of his friends and former classmates are "suddenly" leaving town.
An 80-year-old might complain about the "sudden" surge in deaths among his friends and fellow retirement community residents.
I doubt that this is a statistical anomaly.
Regards,
Remote rural coastal area of the Pacific North West.
And the rest of your post was very good. Thanks.
Wonderful news, indeed!
God love you for your proximity to it...and God love you for spreading the good news!
I love it!
I think there’s increased economic pressure to ‘live as cheaply as one’, and for those who would get married before doing so it makes sense that there’d be an uptick in nuptials.
It could because the USA is starting to come back to its center-right roots in these most difficult days.
I have seen this before, The divorce fad is next.
People do desparate things when they see the economy is about to collapse!
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