Arthurian romance, lynxes and wine: reasons to marry early
'When you meet the person that you want to spend the rest of your life with... there's just something there.'
Chase Purdy
Issue date: 4/16/09 Section: Focus
Senior Ike Bressler bounced his eyebrows up and down, up and down and up and down.
"And I was makin' these eyes!" Bressler said, leaning into his girlfriend with a broad smile.
Senior Rachel McDonald giggled and blushed as he re-enacted the first time he saw her in class.
Their engagement is all but official, they said; all they need is the ring.
"It's kind of a match made in heaven," Bressler said. "We get along on every level."
For them, the decision to commit is important, but getting engaged young isn't something they worry about.
Junior Pascal Marillier and his fianceé, sophomore Emily Wagner, said they feel similarly.
"I want to live with her for the rest of my life," Marillier said.
Their engagement was the result of months of friendship and 12th-century literature. Marillier said he'd been reading Arthurian romance tales - so he was "in a mood."
And so it happened on the steps of Central Hall. The sky was clear; she had 19 years and he had 20.
"He's a sentimental schmuck," Wagner said, poking Marillier in the side.
So why so young?
Senior Tucker LaPrade said he never expected to marry in college. In fact, he never anticipated dating during his freshman year.
But senior Anna Williams changed his life. They got engaged, and two and a half years later they married. Anna Williams became Anna LaPrade.
"When you meet the person that you want to spend the rest of your life with..." He stopped and scratched the side of his head for the right words. "There's just something there. We never really questioned it, because it wasn't a question of when; we wanted to get married immediately."
But it wasn't their idea to get married so early, he said. In fact, they planned to wait till after graduation. It was actually LaPrade's mother who posed the question, "Why wait?"
LaPrade said marriage helped his relationship grow in ways impossible during dating.
"And I was makin' these eyes!" Bressler said, leaning into his girlfriend with a broad smile.
Senior Rachel McDonald giggled and blushed as he re-enacted the first time he saw her in class.
Their engagement is all but official, they said; all they need is the ring.
"It's kind of a match made in heaven," Bressler said. "We get along on every level."
For them, the decision to commit is important, but getting engaged young isn't something they worry about.
Junior Pascal Marillier and his fianceé, sophomore Emily Wagner, said they feel similarly.
"I want to live with her for the rest of my life," Marillier said.
Their engagement was the result of months of friendship and 12th-century literature. Marillier said he'd been reading Arthurian romance tales - so he was "in a mood."
And so it happened on the steps of Central Hall. The sky was clear; she had 19 years and he had 20.
"He's a sentimental schmuck," Wagner said, poking Marillier in the side.
So why so young?
Senior Tucker LaPrade said he never expected to marry in college. In fact, he never anticipated dating during his freshman year.
But senior Anna Williams changed his life. They got engaged, and two and a half years later they married. Anna Williams became Anna LaPrade.
"When you meet the person that you want to spend the rest of your life with..." He stopped and scratched the side of his head for the right words. "There's just something there. We never really questioned it, because it wasn't a question of when; we wanted to get married immediately."
But it wasn't their idea to get married so early, he said. In fact, they planned to wait till after graduation. It was actually LaPrade's mother who posed the question, "Why wait?"
LaPrade said marriage helped his relationship grow in ways impossible during dating.
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