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Miss Hummingbird's post about being away from her DF got me thinking about how many military brides are out there. I know when I was going through our deployment last year, connecting with other folks going through the same thing really helped me. Plus the additional challenges of the military life can sometimes really add to the anxiety of wedding planning. I haven't really seen anything on here about this so, I thought I'd ask: how many military brides do we have out there?

I'll start. My DH was in the Navy for 6 years. He just got out in January and we moved from Norfolk, VA back home to Charlotte, NC. With our wedding the middle of March trying to move and find new jobs 3 months before the wedding really added an extra kink in the chain. Even though we weren't officially engaged while he was on his 8 month deployment last year (we're getting ready to celebrate the first anniversary of homecomeing and when we got engaged.. woot woot!) I spent most of the time thinking about and planning for our wedding. Even though the deployment really sucked (one time we went 9 weeks between phone calls), it gave me an emense appreciation for our time together and I wouldn't trade it for the world.

Go navy! Hoorah!

That's funny- I never thought of asking that here =)  FH is in the Army... joined at the beginning of med school.  He's graduating this year, so that will be just about 4 years.  He's doing his residency at Walter Reed so we'll be in the DC area for the next few years, and then who knows =)  He'll be career military, since by the time he pays off owed time, he'll be close to retirement anyway.  We've been long distance, and he lives off base anyway, so I haven't really had much of 'military life' yet, besides trying to learn as many acronyms as I can =)

I agree about the acronyms! I know a bunch since I always make him explain what he's talking about when he uses them, but my best friend is an Army wife and we can't even communicaiton with each other. The acronyms are so different from one branch to the other.

It's really funny though because I have to keep in mind which web page I'm on because FOB can be Father of the Bride or Forward Operating Base. :-)

We actually asked about six guys to be "backup" groomsmen to deal with deployments and have gone through all of them, plus one and the wedding is still six months out.  We are determined to have our saber arch (we're getting married at West Point; my DF is a 2002 grad).  I think his former classmates may be asked to step in at the last minute.  The chapel provides us with the sabers.

 Oh, my DF is a captain who is going to seminary to go back as a chaplain this time.  He has deployed three times.  We are getting married during his stabilization.  We joke that we are so accustomed to long-distance that we might find ourselves calling from the other room just to hear the other person's voice on the phone.

so nice to hear from everyone else!  my fiance is a naval officer and went to the naval academy but my entire family (grandfather, uncle, dad, three bros and one sis) are all army (and west point grads, so the army navy game is a BIG day of the year and we give my fiance a very hard time ;-)   so yeah...tons of acronymns and going between army and navy stuff they are all the same but different, quite confusing lol.  

getting married may 2, will have planned the wedding in 4 months, which is just fine with me but other people seem to think we're crazy.  but he just got back from deployment before xmas and then we got engaged and he is leaving again the end of may on another deployment sooo....4 month engagement works for me!  it is our only chance to have our whole families with us really.  you just do what you can!   

Hooray for military brides!  If my username didn't give it away, my FI is a Navy flight officer.  I actually moved to Pensacola last summer to be with him (after he'd finished most of his flight training and we'd been long distance for several years).  While we were there, we got married in a civil ceremony with our immediate families present.  We've taken to calling our "real wedding" this coming May as the "white dress wedding" to help keep things straight.

There were definitely some unexpected challenges to marrying a military man, that I didn't anticipate until I tried to start planning.  The biggest issue has been trying to pin down a date where he can actually be at the wedding!  We opted for Memorial Day weekend because he's most likely to have leave that weekend... however, we got a lot of grief at first from family and friends who were upset we were "stealing" a holiday weekend.  It's two months until the wedding and we still don't know for sure if he will be allowed leave; for most brides, it's just a given that your fiance will be present for the ceremony!

We're also running into the hard truth that many of his other military friends won't be able to attend because of training or deployments.  Additionally, he's stationed in northwest Washington and our wedding is our home state of Wisconsin.  So we've been planning long-distance which also adds headaches and stress.  Overall though, I just keep reminding myself that it's all going to work out in the end... somehow!

I'm enlisted Navy!  My FI just got out in January... we've been engaged for 2 1/2 years because of our multiple deployments... :-(  FINALLY on shore duty (almost like a normal job... lol) and FINALLY time to get married!!  Just moved to the area and trying to plan the entire thing in a new area is driving me nuts!!! lol... oh well.

ah K610 so funny!  using your grandfather's sword sounds like a great idea.  good luck with your "mixed" marriage  ;-)

WOW.....I don't feel alone anymore!

My FH is in the Army has been for almost 9 years and it sucks sometimes. He leaves for training in 2 weeks and comes home we get married in May and then he has to leave 3 days after the wedding for 3 more weeks. We are expecting our second deployment in the middle of 2010.