While I cannot complain about being engaged and 95% of the time I love it (stress and all). That other 5% of the time I am getting everybody's two cents. I appreciate most of it and understand it comes from a place of love and protective nature. I am totally grateful that I have so many people in my corner to look out for me. But like everything else there is that negative vibe people give off. A girl I work with doesn't like that I didn't get the big ring. She said she wouldn't say yes unless there was a big proposal and a big ring. To each their own, but I also feel quite sorry for her. To me it isn't about the ring, but what it stands for. Whether it be a ring from a gum machine or the most fabulously expensive ring in the world (which most people don't wear in public), it comes down to what the ring stands for. I have a ring, that to many maybe be cheap, but to me means the world. I would be devastated if something ever happened to it. It is a symbol of our love and commitment, not about wealth or status. While yes I would love a sparkly ring, right now this ring is perfect. We want to be able to enjoy one another before starting a family and I'd choose being with him over having a ring. Some day I will get a new one. It may be in two years, it may be in 50 years. That isn't what is important. It's about the relationship.
I do have to add that I have been so blessed with the overwhelming amount of help people offer. Almost everyone we know and have talked to about the wedding have offered to help! It's amazing and I have a fiance who has an opinion (that is a double edged sword). It has been quite a humbling experience to see people you don't talk to much at all want to help in the biggest day in our lives thus far!
So thanks to everyone's love and support, we appreciate it so very much!
