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Nuclear Enginering..wedding...A school...HELP :(
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Permalink Reply by carols_kitchen on
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First, a wedding is a wedding. I got married in a small chapel with just bro& sis-in-laws standing up for us, and our immediate families. That was 27 yrs ago.
Also, boot camp is not until February? And then he goes to A school in Goose Creek? While John Kelly is not going to be at GC much longer, he can tell you the chaplain's side of the wedding if you do it there. He may even know the new chaplain coming in next month.
I can't tell you whether to wait until your fiance is a petty officer--but they make more money and soon will have their own base housing. The Nuke program is 18 months long. Our sailor is there now.
Also, a word of faith. Do not worry about tomorrow. Plan for today. God will be with you.
Now, are you ready...breathe in a breathe out.
Trust your sailor and his pride to become a sailor. He is planning to provide for the future. You both have a lot of schooling ahead of you and that is good.
Take care.
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Permalink Reply by BarbaraJane on
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Go with him to the recruiter. Ask the questions yourself. Second hand information is usually only semi-informative. If he is going into Nuke the recruiter should be especially helpful. Oh, and listen to Carol.
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You rarely get leave after boot camp before you go to A school. My son waited till after A school to get married but I guess that would depend on how long A school is. My son went to boot camp in February also, then to A school and got married in August once he knew where his permanent duty station was going to be. Why not get married before he goes to boot camp? I did fly him home during A school for a long weekend to see his fiance and son. You could do that. Don't worry. It will all work out..
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My son is in A school, will (may?) have 2 weeks home at Xmas and is planning to elope then. We all decided it was too difficult to try and plan a wedding with all the trimmings when we weren't sure if he'd be able to be there! So they decided (with the blessings of both families) to go to somewhere warm and beachy (not Florida!) and do the deed. We would love to be there but we can't so they'll leave here, get married, she'll come back here and he'll go back to A school. We won't even see him afterwards. Bummer, but we'll get over it. Sometimes you have to set aside your dreams for reality.
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Permalink Reply by WHITNEY (B's WIFE) on
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no you didnt step on any toes at all i appreciate4 the help. But my stubborn sailor doesnt want to get married before he leaves for basic and he wnt do a courthouse deal and a formal wedding later....but he doesnt seem to understand, like i do that he wnt have to time to get married when he gets to a school!
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Just remember...A wedding is a day, a marriage is a lifetime.
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lol thats what im telling him we have our whole lives to have a dream wedding i told him i only wanted to be with him. And yes i am a girl who has always dreamed about her wedding day...but it never included the military so that changed what i wanted,but he wont listen
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My niece also married a military man 2 years ago in a small ceremony and in two weeks will be having her dream wedding, renewing their vows. You could always do something like that.
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Whitney, young men and women take 4 day weekends and get married all the time down in South Carolia. Your bf is correct about not doing it now, he is under a dep contract and if anything changes (like dependents) he has to redo his dep contract and there may be a delay in his shipping out. This has happened a few times on the site.
Best of luck,you two will figure it out
Shell
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Question????
IS he worth waiting for?????
Then wait till he is ready and have the wedding of both your dreams.
No sense in rushing around to have to sit and wait around. Let him get his things in order and done.
When he is ready ( long as he doesn't wait 5-10 years) then get married.
I know that is not what you want to hear but it's not worth pressuring him.
Love will last no matter what.
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Chances of having an actual wedding are slim, They have liberty leave on weekends sometimes but they dont usually have advanced notice. We got married in a courhouse near Great Lakes and then just had a large wedding a couple years later.. Talking with other navy wives I have found alot of them did the same. The navy doesnt care too much about the family. My husband is on a precom in MS I am in VA He had to keep sending in leave chits for a week off to come home to see our second son born. I wouldnt get your hopes up about a wedding. (he is an engineer) Good Luck... they also have to have it ok'd with there cheif's to get married
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My son got married while he was in A School. He went to Basic in Dec.2005, started A school in Febr. He was a virtual prisoner from the time he started Basic until he earned "privileges" during A school. When he reached the point where he could live off base, that was in January of 2007. The recruiter may not be able to answer what dates will happen for your fiance. I don't remember specifically the date he earned privileges, but he got married August, 2007 and had to go back to work Monday. They had their honeymoon in November, 2007, when he finished A school and they had a few weeks off. During that time, they relocated to his duty station. He is gone for approx. 3 months at a time, and he has absolutely no control of his schedule, which is changed at the last minute most of the time--and that is normal. You must be a special person to be married to a Navy guy--very independent with a life of your own and yet flexible enough to be able to relocate and deal with the unexpected schedule changes. It would probably be easier to get married before Basic Training, but he will be gone from your life for several months before he is allowed any freedom to see you. Be strong and hang in there. It will get better! And congratulations!
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