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    • VintageChic
      CommentAuthorVintageChic
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    OK so curious to hear all your thoughts on this as a lot of people seem to be focusing more on the big day rather than what comes after that (no offence to anyone).

    Can be anything such as (serious) "Spending the rest of your life with somone you love" or (silly) "Having someone to give you a foot rub every night"

    So what does marriage mean to you?

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    • boo
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    knowing its going to cost him a lot more to divorce me than it will to marry me....he won't get rid of me that easy haha

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    • Kerrylou
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    I'm very old fashioned. Marriage means a lifetime of commitment to the person you love. It means devoting your life to them, to stand by their side no matter what life throws at you. If you have problems you sit and work them out, you're both equal partners.

    Marriage can be the most joyful thing but it can also be the most turbulent and you have to take the rough with the smooth. People walk away from marriages far too easily and quickly these days, if you can't stick to the vows then don't do it!
    xxx

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    • VintageChic
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    Aww kerry that is lovely

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    • Stevie_Dee
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    Hmm pretty much as it is now ie sharing everything, keeping no secrets, having huge laughs, working through the tough times, being a family unit, being with my best friend/husband.

    I feel it may bring a little bit more security to my 10 yr old who loves Steve to bits and has called him Dad since he was 7 but never quite understanding why we all have different names.
    Getting married for us is to make a commitment to each other that all the things we do and feel for each other will be for the long haul, and to celebrate this with all the people we love and care about. xx

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    • greyarea
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    It means that he will never be able to escape lol
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    • CommentAuthorButterflyDreamer
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    LMAO @ Boo :D

    The fact that we will be a complete family unit, Making the ultimate commitment to each other. For better for worse, richer or poorer, in sickness and in health :D knowing Steven is Devoting himself to me by becoming my husband and making the lifelong commitment to myself and our girls :D.

    He always said to me he didn't believe in marriage at all, I must have had some effect on him! :D
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    • CommentAuthorButterflyDreamer
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    I completely agree with kerrylou also! xx
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    • Kerrylou
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    Well I am lovely Stace haha xxx

    lmao greyarea, that didn't half tickle me :D xxx

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    It's right what they say
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    • TotallyLovedUp
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    kerrylou, you took the words right out of my mouth!

    To me marriage is the ultimate commitment and something not to be entered into lightly or because 'everyone seems to be doing it' like i have heard a few people say. It is to spend your life with the other half of your heart and soul. Some people say mariage is just a piece of paper and why bother seeing as we have been together for so long, but it isnt about a piece of paper, thats just a formality.
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    • greyarea
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    We aleady have everything but that bit of paper so a lack of escape route justs adds a lil more sercurity
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    • krazykitty
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    i agree marriage is about working together to stay a family laughing crying fighting making up and just being there for each other through whatever life throws at you

    and it also means a hot water bottle that never gets cold throughout winter haha

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    • greyarea
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    Lol kitty i like thr idea about hot water bottle but my partmer is like a furnace lol
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    • krazykitty
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    well im always cold and he keeps complaining hes too hot so it works out lol i steal his body heat and cool him down in process haha

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    • Liz3yy
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    I'm old fashioned in the sense that I believe in a real commitment to my partner, that's why I want to marry him. I don't want to be just his partner or girlfriend for ever.

    We have been together long enough to know each other inside out and can reduce the other to tears of laughter with just one look. That to me means it's time to take our relationship to the next level

    Can't wait until the day I become Mrs. Johnson :)


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    • ~*~ Becca ~*~
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    marriage to me is tying ourselves even more so to each other..making our love stronger and making our steps through life more easier...it means that now im loving michael so much more it leaves me breathless.....i long for him when he's here and miss him like crazy when he's not..tis about following the path of life with him and taking the fear , anxiety and nervous awy from me

    that may no make sense to u but it does to me ol

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    • Mrs Brakes
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    I think I have found the best man in the world and I want him all to myself, forever. We get married and he is mine and I am his. I can't remember what it was like before he was there and I don't want to think of a life without him.
    Also, I said no babies until we are married ;0)

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    • XLittleMissMe!X
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    To be fair that big day is just a big day in which I make things legal and share the day celebrating with my friends. I'm already committed to Kev for better or worse and I already tell him this daily. I already made my vows to love him till death do us part and the big day isn't going to change the relationship that we have now. I can't imagine a life without him in it. I don't think a wedding changes anything (other than your bank balance and tax rights) If the relationship is strong there isn't any need for a bit of paper to prove you are together. I guess in some ways we are doing it because its what is 'the done thing' to do when you want to start a family etc.

    I know on the day I'm going to be emotional yet happy and I'm getting nervous at the thought of showing what is usually something personal to the both of us to all of our friends. Things like the dress, cars, venue etc don't really matter that much to me although we are having the wedding that we have both dreamed of since we were young. I guess we are making all our dreams come true although in reality we already have everything we could ever want.




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    • Mrs Brakes
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    I'm not looking forward to the wedding as the 'big event' that I know it will be, (I'd rather it wasn't all that) I'm looking forward to it as the day I become married.

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    • future-mrs-watson
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    Marriage means having someone in your corner no matter what, and being able to offer that to someone else too. It means having made a promise to each other, in front of the people that mean the most to us that we will be faithful forever, and take the hard times with the good. It means we have the best situation in which to start our family (hopefully soon after we get married!)x
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    • Mrs (Dove) Pidgeon
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    I married him so we got more allowances from the Army and could live together.










    I admit I did marry because I love him and want to spend my life with him.

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    • Faeth
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    Better legal standing for the person I had planned to spend the rest of my life with anyway - lol.

    No actually I am more romantic than that, and think that it does mark out a proper commitment to someone, but my heart knows I already made that commitment, this is more kinda making it legal and letting everyone else know the same thing :-)

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    • Croc
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    marriage to me means that when i die someone will notice i am dead and i wont get eaten by the dogs cos no one has visited me for months!! (iv seen it on the tv and that worries me!!)

    but seriously because i want to grow old with someone that i can walk down the road with when were old and more wrinkly still holding hands knowing that we have grown old together and been there for each other through thick and thin and that no matter how much grey hair we have we still love each other exactly the same as we did at our wedding day

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    • Kaya
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    Spending the rest of your life with someone, and having their life completed twisted up in yours.
    And also, showing the rest of the world that we love eachother and want to spend the rest of our lives together. x

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    • Emsy5000
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    For me it means the commitment to love support and care for each other for the rest of your life. no matter what.

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    • CommentAuthorMrsB
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    being able to annoy him for the rest of my life and keep playing practical jokes mwahaha =p that and because I love him, I want to be a Tyson and just make it offical I do believe though when we're married we're married and thats it, I think afew people (non of you ladies!) think ah well if it doesn't work out I can get a divorce and give up at the sign of problems. We're having the big wedding just because we'll never do it ever again and want a big celebration and everybody loves a good wedding lol I still want to be just as loved up when we're 70+ as we are now =D
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    • krisw86
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    well most people have already put down what i would have said.
    i cant imagine living my life without chris, he is everything i could have possibly imagined. i know so many people who get married jsut for the attention. and that's in the literal sense lol. i am old fashioned. i wanna spend my life with one man and have my family with him. i want our unit to be whole. we got a few things to learn to do. we both as stubborn as each other and we have our whole lives to learn to stop being that bad. although, i am getting better than him. he'll cut his nose off to spit his face cos he that bad lol.
    if people are getting this divorce insurance they are now doing, then they shouldnt be getting married. it a lifetime commitment not just for a big party in a fancy dress x
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    • YourFirstDanceBride
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    Being tied and commited to my best friend no matter what and becoming an official team to face whatever life throws at us.
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    • boo
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    I didn't even know you could get divorce insurance lol not that I'll be needing it, I have my soulmate and my best friend all rolled into one.

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    • Liz
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    To be with my best friend always, through the good and bad!
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    • sbride
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    At the moment I feel like the odd one out in my family as the kids have H2B's surname. So marriage to me is uniting me into the family officially and also committing (not that i aint anyway) myself to the love of my life always and forver. (and of course wearing a gorgeous dress, eating loads, drinking loads and dancing loads, lol.)

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    • Griff
      CommentAuthorGriff
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    I can't wait to marry mike. It means spending my eternity with my soul mate and best friend. We can start our own little family and be a team through life, a never ending force powered by our love for eachother. I just want to have our happily ever after even with the inevitable bumps on the road ahead. He is my life I love him.... and this way no one else can get their hands on him!!! :) xx
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    • NHR115
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    Marriage means showing my undying love for my man and giving him my everything. I know we live like this anyway and being married to him will not make me love him any more but marrying Neil just makes us complete. As I said in another thread it is the start of our rest of our lives and I can't wait to be Mrs Armstrong and start planning the arrival of baby Armstrong :) I guess I can't really put into words what marriage means to me as it means the world to me to know he loves me enough to have me as his wife. xxx




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    • Madam Butterfly
      CommentAuthorMadam Butterfly
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    I share the traditional views of marriage too. Marriage is to commit yourself to your husband and as it says in the vows, for the bad aswell as the good..sickness and health, joy and sorrow, richer and poorer and to promise to be loyal, caring, respectful and to love and cherish your husband until you are parted by death.
    You have to work at a marriage as whether you like it or not its not an easy ride, there will be many ups and downs.
    Marriage also means we will be ready to start having a family :)

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    • pennieb-MrsRiley
      CommentAuthorpennieb-MrsRiley
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    Knowing that he'll always make me laugh, even when things get rough. That's why I love him, and how I know our marriage isn't gonna fail :)

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    • 'ca'ca'ca
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    its partly so i've always got sombody to tell me if my hairs a mess, or ive got my dress caught in my knickers. Also becuase he's warm at night, and if theres a ring on his finger, i get to slap the girl whos trying to steal him xD [am kidding. i think]
    In seriousness; im marrying him becuase in our hearts we know we're made for eachother, and the BigDay is more about letting our family, our friends, know that we rally mean it. We've been a little on-and-off before, so it's going to be nice to tell everybody "we know; we're sure"
    i also believe that getting married young, as we will be, [about 23] means that we've got eachother to grow up with, to share life with. thats what im looking forward to most; to be able to look at him in 80 years and say "you remember when we were 17 ..." <3 x
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    • pennieb-MrsRiley
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    Awww, that's lovely... and I'm lucky because although Steve and I have only been together coming up 3 years now, he's known me since I was 16, so I get those memories too :)

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    • Winterrose
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    Knowing that I kissed enough frogs and found my prince lol! Just being so grateful we found each other, appreciating the little things as well as the big. Neither of us feel as though we "settled" for each other, we thank our lucky stars every day that we are together and I hope we always will do and never ever take each other for granted :) x
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    • Mrs Hinch2B
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    For me our marriage is just ment to be, a way of showing the world the commitment we have made to each other .... Steve is my sole mate, my best friend, my world and couldn't live my life without him by my side xx

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    • Beskiboo
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    Marrige to my H2b means that I am marrying my best friend my other half for without him I am not complete (and very grumpy). He tells it like it is (good or bad) and I know him better than he knows himself.
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    • ljeh92
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    i couldnt live without Michael, he is my whole world...

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    • Amy
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    I'm getting married for many different reasons......

    Because I DO want to have a fabulous amazing unique day, one that I will never forget (without the pain of childbirth!!)

    Because me and Dan have been through so much over the past 5 years and I've realised we are just meant to be- despite the resistance by me, due to having a very, very, awful unsucessfull first marriage!

    And because Dan has said we're not having any more babies till we get married, and as I want two more we'd better get on with the wedding!

    Commitment dosn't scare me marriage does!! But I do love him too :-)
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    • Happilymarried Mrs G
      CommentAuthorHappilymarried Mrs G
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    to quote the proclaimers whose song we will be playing at our wedding:
    Lets get married, i love ya, and i wanna stay with ya, lets get married, have kids and grow old and grey with ya, lets get married, hold hands and walk in the park.... we're ready for tieing the knot, set the seal on the feelings that we've got. We can make each other happy or we can make each other blue, yes its just a piece of paper, but it says i love you.
    For the good times, when we can do no wrong, for the bad times, for the moments when we think we cant go on, for the family, for the lives of the children that we planned, lets get married, come on darlin please take my hand.

    Its about a life time commitment and partnership with someone i dont ever want to imagine living without.
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    • louise88
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    Gareth is everything to me. I can't imagine life without him. From day one it felt like we'd known each other for years and I knew I'd spend the rest of my life with him. In the five years we've been together we've been through the great times and the sad ones too and I know that I wouldn't have coped (and still couldn't cope) without him. He is my best friend and just knowing that he is there makes me feel calm and happy.
    Marrying him would just complete who we are and make us one :) xxxxx

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    • *Kat B*
      CommentAuthor*Kat B*
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    meaning of marriage to me:
    to basically confirm and show the world exactly how much we love each other, have a family of our own, enjoy relaxing holidays and grow old together with adventure, fun and excitement. Been married won't change a great deal of our relationship it'll make it stronger xx

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    • WifeyWiles2Be
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    I am actually looking forward to the day after, the day that I can say I am John Wiles wife! Marriage to me is being able to spend and share the rest of my life with my best friend and knowing that HE picked ME to be his wife and nobody else :) To make my children proud of their parents and seeing the love and commitment in our relationship. I'm looking forward to being a part of his family and him mine! Bringing our families together and making a bigger family unit and lots of friendships.

    I'm looking forward more to my marriage than I am my wedding day, I know my wedding day will be amazing but my life after it will be perfect :D xxx
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    • nini
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    So that I always have someone to cry over when I've had a bad day, someone who loves me even when I've spent the day in pyjamas, somebody to fight my corner for me, someone who just knows what to say and when : )





    Someone to cook when I can't be bothered, and take my car to the car wash!
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    • FreyFreyMrs.Carney2B
      CommentAuthorFreyFreyMrs.Carney2B
     
    life time commitment, fun and laughs with someone I love - not worrying if I get seen without makeup or with my hair in a mess cos I know he loves me for who I am... hmmm all serious I'm afraid. Although, having a great chef in the house, a car washer... not too good at the DIY! erm... good massager on the very few and far between occasions... is all part of the package!
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    • Flossie
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    Marriage means to me being in love with someone, committed to someone, wanting the best for that person and being willing to share all the highs and lows in life together. It means working through any problems you may encounter together and never giving up too easily. It means a family. x

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    • Mrs M Wade
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    That's lovely Flossie x

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