You expect it. Questions, rings, excitement - a proposal. You are waiting for the excitement of love with which you will say your Yes! to his question, will you become his wife. You are waiting for all this - (im)patiently. You have imagined that everything will happen exactly like in beautiful Hollywood movies. But in the end, everything will happen as it is needed and intended for you.

However, we don't see everything in romantic movies - what are the things that no one tells about engagement? These are things we only learn when we become engaged ourselves.

1. On your engagement day, you may not have worn the most beautiful dress.

   It seems that in most romantic films we see that women give their Yes! the word is said in a perfect dress and with even more perfect make-up on the face. But the truth is quite simple - you probably won't be wearing the dress of your dreams that day, because after all, the proposal is most often a surprise. For example, the bride Kristīne and her lover had gone on a camping holiday and decided to go out on a boat in the evening.

   Kristīne - as if from the best romantic movie - dressed in a tracksuit, not realizing that something like this was coming. Her future husband has planned everything, but not too much to leave the possibility that something might go wrong.

   It was not possible to light the candles, but the ring was there, and Kristine's tears were also through laughter.

2. You will want to look at your engagement ring all the time, and you will have to tell your engagement story countless times.

   This is a statement that many brides agree with - you have a new ring on your finger that you want to keep looking at, admiring it, going back to the event of the proposal and not stopping to tell other people about it. A suggestion to make a beautiful manicure, because just like you will want to look at the ring again and again, so will the people around you. "I'm not exaggerating at all when I say that every time I show someone the engagement ring, I cry. Of course, because of happiness," remembers the bride Kristīne.

3. People will ask questions that you don't know the answer to yet.

   It is better to accept ahead of time that immediately after the engagement, people around you will ask questions - when will the wedding take place, where will you celebrate, what kind of dress do you want and others. You probably won't know the answers to most of these questions yet, so it's safe to say that you're enjoying your engagement right now and that you'll have plenty of time to answer the big questions.

4. Advisors will appear all around.

   Friends and acquaintances who have recently married could become advisers who will want to get involved everywhere, help, express their opinion in all matters related to the wedding. This is especially true for couples who have been married for a short time and already miss the hustle and bustle of wedding planning. Therefore

   during the engagement, you should carefully evaluate which advice to really listen to and which to say thank you for, but stick to your own thoughts and decisions.

5. The challenge will be to keep the feeling of "here and now" and not start planning your wedding right away.

   It seems that this is one of the biggest challenges that brides experience - to stay in the "here and now" feeling, enjoy the engagement and not get involved in detailed wedding planning the very next day. It's important to find a balance - it's good to start wedding planning early, without leaving anything to the last minute, but you shouldn't let the wedding planning work steal the joy of your engagement.

6. Wedding movies and various TV shows will suddenly seem different.

   Although you might have already seen most of the movies, you will suddenly want to watch movies like "My Best Friend's Wedding", "27 Dresses" and others again.

   And they will really seem different because the last time you looked at them, you weren't engaged yet, after all.

7. Your relationship will seem different.

   Although you may have been together for years, after the proposal your relationship will become much deeper - the proposal is not only an exciting but also a responsible event, as you promise that you will be only for each other in the future.

   PHOTO: BILLY LOTS , EMILIA BOGĐANOV , LINDA LAUVA