When this troper was very young, around the age of preschool to first grade, her sister forced her into having a 'marriage' with her good friend who went to the same babysitter as her. We used paperclips for rings and even had to kiss each other on the cheek. He ended up moving away later on, and I haven't seen him since.

This troper and a friend promised to get married and become carpenters when they grow up. Then he went to a different school and became a girl... This troper thinks her wedding is probably off.

When this troper was barely seven years old, he had a girlfriend whom he had met at church, and they had a mock wedding together with the whole church watching... He is yet to dig up any dormant memories of that day, because he must have blocked it out. They ended up going to the same middle school and high school, and even played the same instrument in band for one year. Whenever this troper sees her while walking down the various pathways of their small hometown, she always smiles at him...

This troper might be in one of these right now, but she's not sure. It was a pretty ambiguous conversation.

Ok, strike that. This troper is definitely in one of these right now. ^___^

Hurray!!!

D'awwwww :3

This troper had a "If we turn 29 and still single, we'll get married" promise with her best friend. But the problem was that he had a crush on her and decided to wait, not meeting anybody new. So she canceled the promise so he could have a better life.

This Troper similarly proposed to a female friend, "If we're both 30 and aren't married and have no prospective mates, we'll get married, so we can both have a family!" Although he mostly meant this as a joke, she agreed, and the two of them have held this as a sort of running gag, discussing childrens' names and future lifestyles at length. Seeing as the girl is very pretty and easy to get along with, I might not even wait!

Similar situation with this troper and his ex-girlfriend. We decided that we weren't entirely compatible and that if we really put in the effort we could have a decent relationship, but that since we're so young we should take some time away from each other to mature. We promised to marry when we're much older, wiser, and more mature, assuming we're still both single.

This troper was proposed to at the age of ''11''. The person who proposed to her, however, was angry at himself for picking a non-religious person. So he decided he ''had'' to convert me. It '''failed'''. Oh, and I said "no" to the proposal. In hindsight, smart, smart move.

There's a lesson here, kids. If you can't deal with your beloved not sharing your religion or not having a religion at all... Then you probably shouldn't be marrying that person.

Two (5 year old) kids in Germany did just that. Only problem was when they told the train operator they didn't have time to get tickets because they were eloping.

This troper's younger sister, when she was in Pre-K, met her "Prince Charming." (Her words, not mine.) He was an adorable five-year-old blonde with big blue eyes and a head that made up a fourth of his body. No joke. They were practically dating for the last five months of the school year. Everyone who knew them was a ShipperOnDeck. This troper and her best friend would go as far as to write their names in hearts at the playground on a daily basis (not that they minded much) and even held a "marriage ceremony" for them. Of course, they haven't seen each other in four years, but apparently they still talk about their childhood romance.

This troper was on a middle school field trip, hanging out in the arcade, when she witnessed a boy "propose" to his girlfriend of two months. (Most relationships in the school only lasted a week, so this was impressive) wit ha ring he had spent all his money on trying to win it out of a video game. He promised he'd always love her and they'd get married one day, she said yes, of course. They've been dating almost a year now and were voted the school's cutest couple by this time - and she till hasn't taken off that ring.

About two months ago, this 15-year-old troper made a promise to his girlfriend of one year. "I will always love you, no matter what happens. I'll stay with you forever. And someday...when we're older...we'll be married. I promise you." And she promised the same thing.

Awwww...

We also have a policy that anyone who utters that word at us gets grass thrown at them. We've gotten tired of that word, you see.

Sorry. There isn't a good emote for "giant goofy wibbly grin with shiny anime eyes", though, so that one had to do.

Have you tried (* )w(* )?

Made of Win, man. Just... Made of Win.

In an updated edit, I've managed to get her a ring. Since I'm only 15, and practically broke, I couldn't get much. It was only a three dollar mood ring. But she loved it just the same. And I promise I'll get her a real ring when we're older.

Stop being so heartwarmingly awesome, dammit!

Sorry. Guess I'll have to tell of the latest CrowningMomentofHeartwarming on the proper page then.

God, you sound like a guy I know that was in the ....exact same situation.....* stares at you intensely*

Is This Troper: A.) a cynical jerk for patronizingly thinking "You'll learn! Oh how you shall learn!" or B.) a hypocrite because he did the same thing (though at age 17), and it ended up working out?

This Troper had one of these as a teenager, but doubts it will happen now as we haven't spoken in years.

This troper promised to marry someone at age six. His plans were derailed when she left the school, never to be seen again by this troper.

Even better! Someday you'll see this cute girl who looks kinda familiar, and you'll talk, and it'll come up, and IT'LL BE HER. ''Then'' you can get hitched. At least, that's how it works in anime, so it must be like that in real life, right guys? Guys? ...Please?

Hah! Keep dreaming.

I believe this will happen

@/{{Melesmelda}} once had a friend who was proposed to in second grade by no less than three boys. One of them even had a plastic ring.

A boy did that to me once! But I'm pretty sure he was just being a twat...

This troper proposed to a girl in Kindergarten, she said yes too. Sad that I haven't talked to her in around ten years...

...Jackie?

This troper has the "if we're single when we're 30" variation with the lady who was his first proper girlfriend.

One of this troper's friends proposed to somebody in kindergarten. They are still together in junior high. It scares me...

This troper's boyfriend has said to her 'I think I'll have to marry you one day', to which this troper replied 'Sounds fun'. I later did a mini explanation, that yes, that was an answer in the affirmative, and not just me just humoring him.

I've recently learned that the guy who was my 'fiancée' (good old times...) back in kindergarten and with whom I hadn't spoken for 8 or 9 years is going to attend the same University as me. And that we like the same things. And that I still find him cute. And that he IS such a nice guy. We never oficially broke up (I changed schools in 4th grade), so he's technically still my boyfriend, too. He doesn't have a girlfriend, by the way, and we're going to the movies next week... and my best friend is coming along (long story short, she invited him via MSN five minutes after I told her his email address). Did I mention that every (male, straight) friend I've ever had has fallen for said friend two minutes after meeting her? *sighs* So I won't fall for him. I'll focus on his flaws. I don't want to end up being the UnluckyChildhoodFriend.

@/AirshipCanon may be accused of wanting to see as many {{Victorious Childhood Friend}}s as possible, but he must state, Don't give up. Even if that means betraying your best friend.

Not @/GwenStacyWannabe, but her mother, actually got "married" in the first grade.

This Troper "married" and divorced the same guy so many times she has a box full of identical plastic Spiderman rings. All this before she turned five. Unlikely to turn into a real marriage, though, as we happen to be related.

This tropers best friend is currently 'married' to her long distance boyfriend....although I'm not 100 percent sure if they're actually going out. Add to this that we have a bet going that if she isn't engaged to an ex-boyfriend by the time she is 29 that she said (while they ere going out) she was likely to marry, she owes this troper twenty bucks.

This troper would also like to add that the bet was made while she was going out with him, and after break-up wouldn't give me the money insisting she 'still had time!'

...Molly?

For the love of god people, don't post something like this and then never check the TroperTales page again! You're cutting off the possibility of being Victiorious Childhood Friends!

If this weren't a wiki that allowed anyone to edit pretty much anything, including what other people had written, the site could be given a structure that lets people "reply" to each other's posts and receive email notifications. Is there a way to make this work, or am I CompletelyMissingThePoint ?

This troper was proposed to when she was only five by a classmate. He even asked my parents and gave me a ring. Then we moved, I never saw him again.

This troper was involved in one of these in the third grade, she moved away in the fourth, we ended up going to the same college, got back together, had my first time with her, then the next day she broke up with me, one week later he wound up in the psych ward for attempted suicide. The sad thing is he's still in love with her, and passes by her work every day on the way to uni. They're sort of kind of still talking, he's dating someone else, but he hasn't given up hope. She also was knocked up, and he would gladly be a daddy. Sometimes unspoken things are said louder than words.

Want an optimistic opinion? Maybe mommy wants daddy to finish college and get his life (and mind) in order first, so he can be the best daddy and hubby possible.

This Troper knew that she was going to marry her childhood friend when she grew up, and they would have x number of kids, all of whom were named, and live happily ever after. Understandably, he didn't manage to tell me he was gay until we were 16. Now it'll have to be a marriage of connivence (and video cameras) when he's rich and famous.

This troper was proposed to at age four. When her dad came to pick her up in the afternoon, her 'fiance' asked him for permission. Dad was amused, but said they had to wait until they were older. So he told her dad that they were going to elope. Dad said no. He was dejected for a while, but they got 'married' at six (there was a wedding with the rest of the class, toy rings, a 'priest' and everything) and then 'divorced' at eight because he moved away and they decided to see other people. They had their first kiss on the lips the day before he moved and then he gave her a small potted plant he stole from the school's garden. She hasn't seen him since but she still has the plant.

This troper was engaged to her friend in preschool, until he decided that he didn't want to get married anymore. She was crushed.

This troper's aunt dated a man in high school for three years. They then broke up when he had to return to his home country. Said aunt then marries another man right after high school and divorces him quickly. When her old flame heard about this, he called her and immediately proposed over the phone. She said yes.

In Preschool, this Tropette had a boy in her class who promised to marry her. The Clincher? He wanted to be a girl. . She declined.

At ages 14 and 15 this troper and her girlfriend had discussions about marriage. Made the engagement official at 15 and 16. Now we're 20 and 21, still together, and desperately saving up to go to Canada to marry. (It won't count here. But we're getting married.)

This troper had one at the age of eight. She slapped the boy and ran away screaming. Then again, he was the class ButtMonkey and a well known-perverted klepto....

And this entry proves that I am a horrible person, for I giggled like a schoolboy at the mental image of the ArmorPiercingSlap with subsequent screaming and fleeing...

This troper and her boyfriend, at ages I'd like to keep ambiguous (but were rather young), we were playing a similarly ambiguous electronically-based game together... and he gave her a Promise Ring. Subverted, eventually, since he didn't know what it meant and promptly took it back.

@/BlakeTheGreat is in one of these with his boyfriend. It would be great if it weren't for a few problems: 1) He's two years older than me. 2) Because of our age difference, my parents refuse to let him see me, so it's kind of like we're Romeo and Juliet. And 3) We live in two separate states, So Yeah.

This troper is also in a very similar situation,he made a promise of engagement knowing about all the risks and limitations, but in fact he's very happy and he's 4 years older than the person he loves,This troper also desires you sucess,because he knows how hard it can be sometimes, but well its {{Worth It}}.

@/AirshipCanon was reminded recently that he was involved in one of these, supposedly claiming to return to Michigan, find the girl he was enamored with at age 3-4, and marry her. Oddly enough, he's got a crush on a girl who has the same name (Jessica) as the girl he was in said promise with. It's not possible for the two to be the same...OrIsIt?

This troper had a very sweet discussion about this a couple months ago with my sadly now-deceased crush/best guy friend. It was brought about by the fact that he'd just broken up with his longtime girlfriend, and he said something along the lines of how his girlfriend had wanted to marry him, but he couldn't see himself with anyone else but me. Then he gave me an R2-D2 ring from the time we got Star Wars cupcakes. Now that he's passed, I wear that ring every day...

@/AirshipCanon says that should be in Tear Jerker's troper tales... because that's... *sniff*

When I was five or so, my best friend and I had it all planned out: He was going to be a policeman and I was going to be a paleontologist, and we were going to get married. I moved away when we were seven, and we wrote back and forth for years. This was around 25 years ago. He got married a few years ago to a very nice lady he knew from college and it turns out I also would not mind marrying a nice woman. I still go hang out with them whenever I get down that way, but it is a little awkward when his parents or my parents trot out the old "hey, remember how you were going to get married?" thing.

I am not sure if this counts but this troper's friends, one a girl and the other a guy, got a fake marriage certificate, this past year in 8th grade, as a joke by one person. I say joke since the marriage certificate said it was filled out in 1969 and the witnesses were all of the members from {{The Beatles}} (both of them are '''obsessed''' with The Beatles). Now, my guy friend holds on to that. I wonder if that joke certificate could become real...

Some of my dearly beloved, completely wildly insane friends have a tendency to do this...to two involuntary third parties. As in, they will randomly declare two people married (often to multiple people at once). I'm working on a XanatosGambit to get a fake document declaring me married to a friendly enemy back as soon as possible.

@/PurplePantherGirl and her best friend (Also a girl) declared that they were married. It's now a running joke

This troper remembers one from way back in the single digit ages, a girl moving away later that morning looked in the closet and found his old stuffed dog, saying: "Keep this around, when I come back, it'll be our dog."

I still have it.

All these examples make @/{{animenutcase}} feel like a whore. In preschool, I said that I was going to marry a number of different boys. I said I'd marry one boy, and then another boy transferred in and I said I was going to marry him. He actually asked my father for my phone number. In kindergarten, I actually DID "marry" my boyfriend. Did I mention we went to Catholic school? Of course, then he transferred out and I didn't see him until seventh grade. By then, I'd gotten over it.

This 13-year-old Troper has recently got himself caught into one, and we're both most likely to not find love with anyone else. I'll report back in 5 years.

By the way, we figured if we did date for 5 years straight, we'd have a cool story to tell people.

I have a male clone who is living my exact life?!

This Troper (Flareth) proposed to her crush back then in 2nd grade. She even had a plastic ring. He declined, though. xD

I was proposed to at about four. I know the ring stayed around years after I stopped hanging out with him, so I must have said yes, or was a serious golddigger. I saw him again at about thirteen, and sincerely hoped it was the second.

This troper was involved in such an agreement, and actually spent several recesses sitting in the corner of the yard with the girl in question, holding hands, discussing the nature of marriage and what we'd do to the best extent a six year old could. I took it very seriously. Then she started hanging around with her friends instead of me and told me she didn't want to "play with" me anymore. Christ, I never knew you could get messed around at such a young age.

This Troper remembers making such a promise in kindergarten, then another in first grade. Years later, nothing has come of those promises.

This troper believes she had such a thing happen in kindergarten with her best asian guy friend ever. He always played Indianna Jones, and I took the role as Marian(sp?)(he told me I was to cool to be Willie XD). I was also the person who wedded my 3 year old brother with his 5 year old cousin at her grandfather's funeral. She also made the "If we're old cranky, alone, and still single by 40 let's get hitched" promise with her heterosexual life partner.

While we didn't actually make the promise, Me and my GF have been together since 1st grade. We are both seniors in high school now.

I had a childhood promise straight out of Love Hina: A girl who I liked despite humiliating me in front of her friends decided that if I got three basketball hoops in at the basketball court she'd marry me. We were in Year 8 and I delivered the three dunks. She never made good on her end of the deal and as far as I know from her facebook she's a very lonely and bitter person indeed. Still I haven't found a girlfriend yet either.

Two of this troper's classmates actually got engaged in elementary school, Orthodox Jewish style. The rabbis did find a way to annull the betrothal, but only because the girl threw away the sandwich that the boy had given her as a token (where most people use rings), indicating it was of no value to her. If it hadn't been for that, under Jewish law, they would have been engaged.

This troper's childhood friend and, well, this troper made this promise. They had rings and everything. The only problem was that he moved before we even hit puberty and he might not even remember her.

This Troper's friend was once 11 when a guy (Who worked at a hotel that her relatives owned), twice her age, told her that he wanted to marry her when she grew up. When she was 17, this guy asked her if she still remembered what he asked. She said no, though she did remember. She was too creeped out to find it romantic. (I did find it sweet, though.)

While this troper was still in diapers her mothers best friends 3 year old son promised that he would marry her when we were both big and he was a lawyer. As of yet nothing has resulted from this, considering he now lives a State away and is getting a degree in music acoustics.

This troper had a less adorable version, being stalked by a boy in her class for about three years in primary school-- he made her promise to marry him, and then dragged her behind the pine trees to make lumps of pine needles and mud which symbolised how many children she was going to bear him. There ended up being about thirty. She's very, very pleased he moved away.

This troper preposed to his Primary 1 cruch in fron of the whole class. Nedless to say that she declined and Hilarity ensued. But it still will make good for a how to become a love intrust Fan fic.

This troper was proposed to as a small child by the boy next door. Being a cynic, I said no. He didn't care and begged me to marry him until I got annoyed enough to say. "Fine! I'll marry you! But not until I'm twenty one!" and he jumped for joy and started planning the wedding.

This troper made one of these with her (female) childhood friend when we were both about six. :D Though we haven't spoken in about seven years..

Happened to this troper a couple of times, first I almost got fake married in the first grade (but was suddenly stopped by one of the teachers when she realized what was happening). Then, I had a childhood friend from the ages of nine months up til I was ten (I haven't seen him in over five-six years D:) and his parents and my parents both believed that we would grow up and get married to one another (yet he liked me but I saw him as the friend), to the point where when I would go over to his house, his mom and my mom would sit down together and discuss our wedding. To this day my mother still says that we're going to run into each other and get married. Lastly, in the 3rd grade, my best guy friend (since the first grade), said to me that when we were older, we would run into each other and get married and have three children. He also told me that he would change his last name to mine and do the same for our children (his last name is difficult for some people to pronounce because it's Irish, he liked my last name because it was bland and not that original and easier for people to pronounce). We haven't seen each other in over six years (I moved to another town and then he moved a few years later) but we're facebook friends yet we still haven't talked to one another (sad, I know, I'm afraid that he doesn't remember me but he did add me..). I'm still hoping that when we're in college we'll run into each other, get together, and get married and have our three children (with my last name :).

This troper (after this point known as I) has some very interesting tales of this. My first comes when I was in elementary school and was at a party and had been arguing furiously with a boy I had met there for the course of the evening. A mutual friend commented dryly, "You argue like a married couple." He grabbed my hand and said "That's because we're engaged!" I just went with it and we ended up having the ceremony in that mutual friend's living room with plastic rings. We then spent the rest of the night being obscenely lovey-dovey, although that was more to piss off our friends than anything else. I have not seen him since. My next story is much more recent. A few months ago my friend and I were sitting on a couch at our learning center, when my other friend walked up to us and said something along the lines of "I'm bored, why don't you two get married." We did, we had a friend who happened to be wearing a robe that day as our priest, set up yoga mats to be the aisle, and even had our two smallest friends be flower girl and ring bearer (he drew them onto our fingers in Sharpie, on the wrong hand AND finger, mind you). Our wedding amassed at least ten guests, and we have been married ever since, including producing three "offspring". Although because of the insane family tree that has sprung up since, she is also dating my "father", while I'm having a cozy relationship with our "puppy". Homeschoolers are weird kids....

This tropette went out with and then proposed to a guy in 3rd grade. We made wedding invitations and everything :) And then in 4th grade, I dumped him.

This troper has been making them with a girl he met online who happened to live an hour away. She's two years younger, and at first it was more "when you're old enough that your parents won't kill me because of our age difference, lets try to meet up and start dating." That didn't work out because her parents are particularly strict, and knowing this we tried to date other people (With...not so good results. She can't find a decent boyfriend and I've been single since before I met her). Now she's off in college far away and before she left I told her "When we're both out of college, if we still aren't dating anyone else, I'm just going to fly there and propose to you." She's been my closest friend ever since, even if our relationship is entirely through the internet. (We actually did end up meeting a few times, just behind her parents back. So far just a kiss on the cheek.) That said...the amount of UnresolvedSexualTension is OverNineThousand.

This troper got proposed repeatedly from the ages 11-14, about every season or so, from the same boy, a popular boy and being kids I didn't take it seriously (Kind of logical like that) then 4 years into it he revealed to me that he was not kidding and he meant it. Now it's a joke/referance point between us. Long story short, at age almost 19 he hasn't quit wanting to marry me. The dude is committed.

This troper remembers when I made one of these when I was five. I moved to a different county two years later, but I still remember the vow, even though I hasn't spoken to the girl (the sister of my best friend) for about eight years (for the curious, I'm 17). I've not been able to get back in contact with them, but I'm still trying. Probably because I still remember the vow, I've never had a girlfriend.

This troper... had a less pleasant version of this. When she was in the second grade, a male friend of hers (who she didn't even like much, but she didn't understand yet the concept that you're supposed to like your friends) decided that they were boyfriend and girlfriend, cut her off from her other friends, dragged her around, kissed her a lot ( a ''lot''), pulled her behind the pine trees at school and made her make bizarre little balls of mud and pine needles that were supposed to symbolize all the children they'd eventually have (there wound up about twenty), rambled on about how they'd get married as soon as they were eighteen and would tell everyone at the wedding how long they'd been "in love", and at least once mentioned that he was really looking forward to hitting puberty so that they could have sex. Much of what she just typed isn't directly related to the trope in question, but she's posting it anyroad because god damn writing that in third person was cathartic.

Hahahahahahahahahaha!

As the troper before me, I don't have a sugary sweet version. I proposed to my baby-sitter when I was in preschool or kindergarten, but moved sometime afterwords. Due to being a Navy Brat, I met the kid 5-6 years later, and he was my babysitter yet again. However, this time him babysitting me involved him forcing me down and ordering me to kiss him and... other such things, due the fact we were 'engaged' and this is what you do when you are 'engaged.' Of course, being a sheltered child and not knowing what any of this was, I didn't tell anyone at the time. I fear the day I see him again, which may happen due to my dad getting a large promotion with a big ceremony.

This troper had one of these when he was six. Girl in question moved away, and we later reunited at university, where I found out she was lesbian. Oh well.

This troper promised to marry her best friend in the second grade. We were both girls so said friend said she would be the groom and husband so it would be okay (we went to a catholic school, so...) and we could be together forever. I moved away a year later and haven't seen her since.

This troper and her guy friend realized they kind of liked each other in kindergarten, so they agreed that they would date in high school. This troper is a freshman and can't stand him now. Oh well.

The only boy in this troper's ballet class insisted he was in love with her and would marry her one day-- he even had the ballet teacher "marry" them. worked.