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Fully 7.3% of the people on my Friends list have gotten engaged within the past year. Mazel tov to the latest two!

And this doesn't even count the one of you who was blathering about rings awhile ago without actually buying one, or the other 18 of you who wouldn't surprise me at all if you got engaged tomorrow. Or those of you who are already married.

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The funny thing is that I think I have my wedding dress, I just don't have a significant other.

That's better than being one of those people who has their whole wedding planned out, and possibly even future family size and kids' names. With one small detail missing. Just need to find a plug 'n play groom, and they're all set.

I'm not that sick. I got this dress custom made as Renaissance faire garb, but it's so pretty that I think I'm going to save it for my own wedding.

Yeah, I figured it was something like that. Pretty, by the way.

Thanks!

i have a wedding dress, too, and no significant other. though i don't fit into the dress at the moment. it's my mom's.

I'd love to wear my mom's, but a) there's no possible way I'd ever fit into it because she's skinny and I'm fat and also even if I was skinny I have a far bigger rack than she does, and b) I've wanted a Renaissance wedding since I was a very, very small child.

I must say, it might not surprise you if I got married tomorrow, but it would come as quite a shock to me!

I just know you better than you know yourself, I guess.

glad to be part of the "not getting married any time soon" portion of your friends list

As am I, my friend. As am I. But hey, to each his own; and besides, that will probably be me one day.

no boyfriend, don't plan to marry until age 30+, no kids until 35+.... but I do have my kids' names: elle, will, james, jack, claire.
not that I'm having five. but those are the names I like right now.

I just looked at your info friendslist. 7.3%. That's a lot. I'm glad I'm not planning on getting engaged tomorrow either.

Ah shit, I never sent you that email did I? And now you're off to Havurah/Folk yourself. Oops. I'm sorry....

is being on your friends list a segulah for getting engaged? are you a shadchan for your friends list?

I don't know what that first word means. And I haven't been a shadchan since I set up my babysitter with my camp counselor when I was 8. (They went on a couple of dates, but that was all.) It was fun, though.

a segulah is one of those quirky jewish superstitious things.

like for example in a laundromat in israel there's a chair that people believe that if you are having problems getting pregnant and sit in it, it'll help you get pregnant. the chair would be called a segulah for getting pregnant. so a segulah is an inanimate object/practice that has magical powers. so perhaps your friends list is that!

though i'm not serious. I don't believe in segulot

A lot of friends of my friends seem to be getting married. Yeesh.
I am happy to say, though, that I don't have a wedding dress^.~ Not even sure I would want to wear white -- stupid semi-modern Eurocentric traditions! And my mom assures me that my wedding will be a potluck dinner, because they used all the money I am going to get sending me to Penn. Personally, I think it was worth it.

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