OK, here’s the scenario: Couple gets pregnant unexpectadly, decides immediately that they just have to get married, but don’t get married until the baby is several months old.
Why do people around here do this? My family isn’t from the south, which must be why I don’t understand this, but I’ve lived here for a long time and I’ve seen a steady pattern of this over the years. It doesn’t seem to be common anywhere else in the country.
Note that I’m not putting this practice down, it doesn’t bother me at all. In fact, I think it’s kind of funny that most of them want to get married either because of religious beliefs or because they’re worried what their families will think yet they wait usually a year and a half to actually get hitched!
It seems like if I was in that situation I would just get the wedding out of the way ASAP before the pregnancy was too far along. Possibly have one last vacation (honeymoon) and then prepare to raise a child.
I have one friend that had a son back in November and they plan on getting married “sometime.” I have another friend that has a child due in June and they plan on getting married “around next August” but they knew about the pregnancy almost immediately (like 2 weeks.) A third friend’s son was walking at his wedding yet they decided to get married the same day they found out she was pregnant!
Has anyone else noticed this as a common practice outside of the south? Has anyone moved to the south from somewhere else and been surprised or confused about this?
Once again, I’m not putting this down, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it and it doesn’t bother me one bit. It just confuses the hell out of me.