First of all, I want to send a special shout out to my anonymous commenter on last week’s post! I’m so happy that I got the chance to interchange with a fellow reader. Call me a dork, but it was purely exciting! So thanks again.
Now down to business…I realize this topic may be a bit taboo, especially for a bridal site where cheeriness and happiness resides, but I’m hoping that you can keep an open mind with me. It’s a sobering topic, but some of you may relate. I know many of my friends do.
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Have you ever stopped short of walking down the aisle? About a year ago, I was having brunch with a group of friends. Seven to be exact. I’m not sure how we got on the topic, but out of those seven people, four of us had either cancelled a wedding or broken an engagement. Can you believe that? I’m not sure if it was our age group, race, or whatever else that could have spoke to this whopping 57% statistic, but I wasn’t quite sure what to make of it. Was I supposed to be shocked or just sad? Being one of those four, I can only believe that we all made one of the biggest and BEST decisions of our lives. I seriously applaud all individuals who bulldoze through the excitement of a wedding or the beauty of a diamond ring and put a halt to making a very bad mistake. So back to my original question. Exactly how many of us are there out there? I’m interested in all ages, but particularly in the young ones. The20 something to 30 something year olds. How did these ones get the guts to call it off after wedding invitations were sent? Do you think that there are a lot of broken engagements out there or are most people going through with weddings after knowing it’s a bad idea? Hmm… Speak on it!
An on an interesting note, the radio station I listen to in the mornings discussed today “Should you give the ring back if the engagement/wedding is called off?” You wouldn’t believe how many vindictive women called in and said no. Lol. I could never. But if you were once engaged and still have the ring, why did you decide to keep it? Isn’t it just a reminder of everything that went wrong? Again, speak on it!
jendayi
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Its surprisingly true how many have called off weddings — I, for one, both called it off AND returned the ring. I regret giving him back the diamond, yet I keeping it and selling would’ve felt like guilty money. Should’ve kept it, cuz within a year he’d given it to the next girl. hehe.
But, yes, calling it off was the best.decision.ever.
See! There’s lots of us out there I bet. Having the strength to say no thank you, is impressive. Thanks for commenting, although I’m a little late on responding!
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