Quite the opposite actually. I have a fantastic childhood with the best parents a kid could ask for, God rest their souls..

 

A lot of truth in that post!

 

I didn't even ask her parents first... I thought about it but they live in Georgia... and she was like "you know they would just say hell yeah anyways... LOL.

 

I sat down with my future father-in-law at the kitchen table and asked him. Pretty nerve wracking but that was the way it was done in 1962.

 

I was an E-4, needed a haircut, boots shined with a Hershey bar, nametag sewn on with white thread and I was a two-digit-midget.

My future father-in-law, Command Sergeant Major, 30 year man.

We met for the first time in a parking lot at Fort Bragg NC.

You don't want to know what happened.

 

Not at all...it just came from his Priest....

He still runs away and sobs when someone says "Who's your Daddy..err..father?!"

 

I did it a little backward but in the end it worked out...

I proposed and gave her the ring...she accepted. Then I went to her father explained my intentions and asked for his "blessing" so to speak. I wanted to do it the other way around but there was a last minute scheduling screwup that messed it up.

 

LMAO! "Scheduling screwup"? That's so funny. "Um, yeah I got your daughter pregnant so I figured I better marry her because she was crying and I didn't have time to come ask you first. Forgive me and say yes?"

Not saying that's what happened, it just fits the "scheduling screwup" comment.

May the force be with you Vader .

Duke

 

Sucker.

You killed them, didn't you?

 

I had a scheduling screw-up too.... Was all set to ask for her parents' blessing on Thursday, the pop the question on Saturday.... then her aunt dies, so her parents are going to be out of town until Thursday. So I call right when they get home and they're heading out to dinner, and I'm planning on going out to eat with her on Friday, so I've GOT to do it Thursday!

So, I call them, tell them I was in the neighborhood (lie) shopping (lie) and wanted (lie... had to) to meet with them to chat (ask for their blessing). They said that they were heading out to a restaurant because they had been on the road for 14 hours and didn't want to cook, so I could meat them at the restaurant! (Whew!! Close one!!)

Show up at the restaurant, and there's here parents.... and her brother (D'OH!!) and his two girl friends (double-D'OH!!). So I wait it out, her brother hangs around FOREVER!! (SO unlike him... he usually bums the meal, then bails ASAP) He finally leaves, and everything is back on track.

Then, Friday, the person I had orchestrated the Saturday proposal with calls and says, "Uuuh, there's a slight problem."
I'm like, "Uuuuh, slight?"
He says, "Well, it turns out I have to be out of town tomorrow, and I forgot."

D'OH!!!!!!!!!!

This sucks. Now, not only do I have to reschedule with him for Sunday, I have to somehow come up with some flimsy excuse to change our weekend plans for the museum from Saturday to Sunday... not an easy thing to do as I'm a horrible liar.

Talk about a logistical nightmare in the 11th hour!! I really hope the wedding plans come together a lot smoother!!

-Joe

 

Sounds like when I got married! Fortunately, 13 years and still going strong!

 

My brother was expected to go to his g/f parents and get permission. They actually TOLD him to do that if he intended to marry her! He got their permission like a month ago, but still hasn't asked her!

 

Hey now...

 

Congradulations!! All I can tell you and please write this down somewhere where you will be able to find it from time to time.. But take nothing for granted.. If she wants you to go to the mountains to look at leaves, DO IT! If she asks you to dance and you don't feel like it, DO IT anyways..

I'm in the middle of some issues with my wife and wish to God that I would have enjoyed our time together more.. But please remember those things.. You may not think at that time you want to dance or go look at leaves or anything that may seem trivial at the time, but those are things you cannot go back and do...

Enjoy it, and best wishes to you!!!!!!!
And yes, ask her parents...

 

YES.....YES.....YES......and YES..............mostly because you are not just marrying your woman.....you are marrying her entire family (no Arkansas jokes please).............and vice-versa.............whether you like it or not......you will be stuck with them just as much as they are with you..........so......out of respect for your relationship you must ask her father............


..........on a personal note...........I took my wife2B's father golfing.........about the 13th hole I decided to ask him.....as I drove the cart into the shade of a tree to wait for the green to open up so we could hit (about 105degF that day)......a branch got caught under the carts room and ran right into her dad...........luckly he was ok......nonetheless......I said "even though I about killed you with that tree......will you still let me marry your daughter?".................in a round about way he said yes................we still laugh about it to this day.........