This is the sweetest thread!
I met Mr. Cat when I was 14 and he was 18. My parents wouldn't let us hang out together, cuz he was "told old and a bad influence"
Well we still saw each other on occasion, since we had met thru a mutual friend. after a few months though he left to go serve over in Operation Desert Storm. He wrote to my friend often, so I heard about him, but I was young and didn't give it much thought.
So 6 years later, the same friend had a birthday dinner and invited me along. After I get to the resturant she informs me that she had invited Mr. Cat as well. When I realized it was set up I was getting ready to leave when this gorgeous guy rode up on a motorcycle. When I realized it was him I figured a girls gotta eat right? So I stuck around. We talked a bit and when it was time to leave he walked me to my car and asked me for my number. He told me he knew I just got out of a rocky relationship and that we could just hang out as friends. I said that was cool and gave him my number.
Three weeks later after lots of hanging out and making out, we were talking late one night. I asked him what he thought about marriage. I meant like in general, did he plan on getting married some day to someone. He said to me "Well I'm not working on Saturday so you wanna go to Vegas?" I was a bit shocked and told him it was funny to mess around with someone. He said he was totally serious, we could drive to Las Vegas which was about 3 1/2 hours away, get married have some lunch, and drive home. I wasn't old enough to gamble so no sense in stay.
He told me to go home, think about it, and give him a call the next day.
So when I called him the next day, I asked him if he was really serious. He said of course and if I wanted to get married to come down and get his ATM card and to go buy myself a ring! He already knew me so well by then that it was just easier to let me pick out what I wanted. I'm not a flashy girl, so a diamond ring wouldn't have been a good thing at that point. So I found a ring that I liked and bought him a gold band.
We went back to his parents house that night and woke his dad up from the couch to tell him. Mr. Cat got down on one knee in front of his parents and asked me to marry him. I cried. hehe His parents said they weren't surprised that the knew we would get hitched eventually, but they were a bit shocked that we wanted to go to Vegas. But they broke open champagne and said that we could do whatever would make us happy.
My parents didn't handle it so well. They got a bit pissed off. They thought we were crazy, they hadn't really even met Mr. Cat yet. My aunt even offered me a trip anywhere in the world if I didn't marry him. I kick myself now I should have taken the trip and then married him anyway!
Well we never did go to Vegas, but we did get married a month later. To make my parents happy we had a nice wedding with our friends and family at my inlaws house. It was really casual and fun. But my mother pretty much got what she wanted I wore the stupid wedding dress and behaved myself for the day.
We've been together 9 years and have two little girls now. Next year we are throwing a big bash and getting remarried. My mother already asked if I could dress normal and behave for the day!!! I said You've got to be kidding, right! Little does she know that I'm designing my own dress and getting a new tattoo for the occasion! Hell Mr. Cat wouldn't expect any less from me. If you can't piss off your family for the one you love, is life really worth living?! I don't think so.