Maybe I’m spoiled. I spend a good amount of time online sharing my personal whims, wishes, and general business to all who choose to read it. Maybe I’m just trying to keep up with the internet Jones’. Maybe I just like to talk.
Where am I going with all this? Recently a friend of mine told me he was getting engaged. Well this isn’t entirely true. A bystander asked him if he was married and he let slip, “Funny you should ask, – I’m actually going to propose tomorrow.”
He said this as though he was ordering a burger, hold the cheese with extra fries. It didn’t seem like a big deal when he said it and to be honest, my perception was that it wasn’t a big deal to him. I can understand maybe he didn’t want to make it seem like too much of a big deal because he was nervous or excited or thought she might say no, but as a good friend of his and of this soon to be engaged couple, I would have expected a bit more, shall we say, enthusiasm?
I guess I shouldn’t be too surprised then when she, the new fiancé didn’t even call the next day to announce the good news! I got a text message. And only after I probed a bit to learn more.
Are we not as good a friends as I once thought? Were they not entirely enamored by one another and happy to share the news? Are they just taking this moment as one to share between the two of them? Albeit annoyed, I respect their privacy, even though I wanted to celebrate for them by showering them with champagne and well-wishes, it made me think. How do most couples share their engagement news?
My hubby proposed at 2:00 a.m.m after a late flight home from a business trip. We called everyone we knew who would answer their phone to shout out our excitement. But maybe we’re different – to each their own, I always say.
So spill it – how’d you spread the news to your friends and family? Email? Text? Phone call?
And to those people out there who want you to have already sent the invitations, tell them to back off for a month or so. You’ll get to it.
