Wedding Planner Blog

Before you get married, there has to be a marriage proposal:

Are you in a long-term relationship but wondering if you’re ready or not to get married?  If you can ask yourself a few questions and come up with the correct answers, then you are probably ready.  Therefore, without further ado, when considering your significant other:

Do they make you happy?

We’re not talking about “this is good pasta” happy or even “this is the happiest moment of my life” sort of happy.  Even with the ideal mate you’re not going to be happy every minute of every day.  In fact, you’ll still have some terrible, even downright crappy days.  But, does this person make you happy considering the whole picture?  Is being with them more enjoyable than being without them?  If the answer is no, then you need to spend some time working on your relationship (or even finding a new one) before you settle down.

Are you still tempted?

If you’re out at a club or at a dinner party, do you find yourself ever checking out the other hotties in the room?  If you do, that’s really fine.  In fact, everybody looks around once in awhile.  But if you’re ready to settle down you should still want to go home with your significant other, every single night.  After all, once the marriage proposal happens and you get married, you’ll be able to look at the menu every night, but you’ll still be ordering the same thing.

Can you grow old with this person?

Can you see yourself sitting on a park bench with your significant other in forty years?  Can you see yourself having children together?  Even grandchildren at some point in the future?  If you decide to get married you’ll be in the relationship for the long haul (one would hope).  If the thoughts of getting old and gray with this person freak you out, then it may be worth it to give the relationship a little more time to grow and develop before considering a marriage proposal.

Can you stand to be around this person all of the time?

Think about it, if you were locked in the same room with your significant other and couldn’t leave, how would things turn out?  At the end of the week would you be at each other’s throats, yelling from the corners of the room and ready to get out of there at any cost?  Or would you be actually happier and more in love than ever before because you got to spend so much alone time together (since we all seem to be so busy nowadays)?

What if you were stranded on a desert island for a year, then what?  Would rescuers find a happy couple or a survivor and a body?   If you can imagine yourselves spending blissful days together for years on end, then marriage may be just over the horizon.  If you’re a man, your next step is to come up with a great marriage proposal idea.  If a woman, just be prepared to say “yes!” when the time comes.