Holy Marriage Batman!

With my friend Kenny's impending wedding, I realized how many of my friends have gotten married. I am 24. Maybe it's just because I grew up in Spain, where people don't get married until their mid 30s, but when I look at how many of my friends are engaged, married, and have been married for several years now... I can't help but feel slightly amazed:

High School:

-Out of 12 people in my graduating class... (yeah, mad small):
Charles Williams
Nick Matthews
Jenny Anderson
Josh Parks (rumored)
Janna Cabeen
Rebecca Szabo
April Swick

-Other friends from high school:
Daniel Dixon
Eva Hund
Jen Rohde
Phil Biddulph
... many more


College

Robin Sattler
Allison Quigley
Andrew Frey
Allison Moore
Ben Moore
Andy Shaw
Brian Toombs
Gregg Hanson
Brett Johnson
Aislinn Agnew
Judy Garza de Vega
Steve Anderson
Melissa Barrow
Kristel Sheesley
Pete Sheesley
Peter Bayreuther
Jonathan Bennet
Marika Bennet
Julie DeJager
Joe Gordon
Sarah Hoover
Aline Venturin
(these are just the ones that I found on facebook! Not to mention the ones that aren't or all the other people I "know" but not really, that are also married. Also, this is impressive considering that I hung out with a lot of people who aren't the marrying types... )


Spanish Friends
Chaz
Ricardo
Kenny
Marta
Aitor
Loida
... not so many as in the other places, but still...

Comments

Miriam said…
Julie will be my first friend to get married, which is really odd. But I don't have many friends, and the ones I do are not the marrying types. None of my high school friends are even engaged. I suppose I'm still a very young 22. I think they're all waiting until I can actually afford to buy wedding gifts.
18/10/07 19:57
Ryan said…
yeah, well, not all the gordonites I mentioned are close friends of mine. They are just people that I had some relation to at some point in college, though obviously some of them are good friends still. Wait 2 years until you are 24 and Im sure you will have a bunch more friends that are married.



OH, ALSO. I FORGOT TO MENTION MANNY FERNANDEZ AS A FRIEND FROM HIGH SCHOOL WHO IS MARRIED. LET IT BE KNOWN TO THE WORLD.
I dont know how I missed that one..
19/10/07 03:06
Jenn said…
Ryan, we are amazing, aren't we? It is kind of crazy. As weird as it sounds, when I hear of other friends getting married I think, "They are so young!" and yet, almost inevitably Charles and I were younger when we married. (Just wait till you have more friends having babies!!)

Oh, and Nick Matthews is married/getting married? I didn't know he was still in contact with anyone from ECA. Good for him.
19/10/07 11:28
Anonymous said…
Hablando de matrimonios??? Espero que no entres en shock....
Igualmente esa sensación la tengo yo y tengo 20 añitos. Creo que es más bien por el ambiente en el que nos movemos... quiero decir... nuestra generación de españolitos no se ha casado hasta AHORA, que está siendo como el boom de los casamientos!! Curioso y divertido a la vez!!
20/10/07 01:21
Jake and Angie said…
Hey Ryan how are ya. Glad to hear that your doing well. Its been a long time. I have a blog of my own too and Sheila is link on it as well if you would like to check it out. Keep in touch.
Angie (Lewis) Hargrave
20/10/07 19:17
danifres said…
hey bro, you don't have to care about it. You know man, we are golden singles (if that's an expression in English). I'd say diamond singles but I tried to be a bit humble. There are a couple of pretty and smart girls waiting out there for us but we are just taking our time, chilling out, enjoying life... and that kind of stuff, hehe

keep searching, I'll tell you if I find something over here ;)
22/10/07 18:23
danifres said…
pd: YOU ARE THE MAN
22/10/07 18:24
Ryan said…
I just want to announce to the world, the Dani is officially "the man" and I am merely his boot cleaner.
22/10/07 19:43
thais said…
yes! i am first on the college list.
24/10/07 22:33
D said…
i also heard that josh parks was engaged, to a beautiful portuguese girl (i think portuguese, im sure about the beautiful part) and that was a while back, so they are probably married now
2/11/07 11:09
D said…
and WHOA i just noticed aline...theres a surprise. yikes.
2/11/07 11:11
Julie Glavic said…
I'm still slightly amazed, too.
24/1/08 10:14
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