Brooklyn Beckham is engaged

[Bouledeneige]

They've been dating 7 months and he's had a series of girlfriends.
Would you be happy if your 21 year old said they were engaged? Irrespective of who he is if he was my kid I would feel that he was too young and they'd not been together long enough. But what would I know?

I was engaged at 19 and married at 20, still married 34 years later.
DD got married at 21, just after graduation, still happily married 8 years later.
DS got to 21 and said no way would he be getting married at that age!

You do what’s right for you.

Who is Brooklyn Beckham? Does it really matter?

I was engaged at 21 and married at 23. I knew within 2 weeks of going out that we would get married, so when I was 19. We are just about to celebrate our 20th wedding anniversary.

It worked for us, but both of us are massively sensible people.

Oh I don’t know. As a very wealthy young couple, they are hardly following the “normal” trajectory where most of “us” need to work towards a wedding and the subsequent marriage and juggle finances with studies or a career or other restrictions. Along with the emotional and romantic side of it all, we also need to be “in a position” to get married.

Them - they can have it all whenever they want. They don’t need to save for a wedding or save for a place to move in to. The usual rules or dynamics don’t really apply.

Saying all that, I do think BB has massively overshared on Instagram re past GFs, all these gushy lovey dovey posts for each of them - Chloe Moretz and Hana Cross, way too much and way too public IMVHO. Makes him look a bit fickle - which is probably about right when you’re 21.

I hear with footballers, the managers encourage them to settle down young so they don’t go wild during their peak years. DB and VB did have BB quite young so maybe settling down young feels ok for them.

Personally I think she might be upduffed.

The ring is huge!

Maybe she's pregnant. That'll be nice for Vicky and Dave

What will they put on the wedding certificate for him under profession?

What will they put on the wedding certificate for him under profession?

Why does it matter? I mean who actually cares? I can't remember what it says on my own wedding certificate

I saw VB congratulating them on Istagram earlier today.

I think 21 is very young because there is such a lot of living to do first. However for BB it is very different from most other 21 year olds. Getting married or having a kid won't put him off travelling or force him to setlte down and buy a house, or get a good career and the usual stuff.

The biggest issue, I think, is for a 21 year old to commit to one person for the rest of their lives, especially a 21 year old who has women throw themselves at him. I follow BB on Istagram (I don't know why!) and he appears to take relationships very seriously. But he is in 'celebrity' circles so again everything is different.

I must admit I’d be concerned if my 21 got engaged. We all want the best for our children and I’d be concerned that they wouldn’t have enough life experience or experience of relationships at this age to know truly that this is the one.

I wouldn’t want them to feel regret when they were older and realised that they’d missed out on having fun etc... or that they’d grown apart and changed so then divorce and miss out on meeting the love of their life.

I think we grow and change so much between the ages of 18 and say 30 that it’s unlikely most 18 year olds will still be together at 30. How many people do you know that are with partners they met at 21? (I don’t mean the ones that are 23)

I sadly don’t believe most engagements that happen so young will last but it’s their life and I’d support them whatever they chose.

He doesn’t have a normal life, he won’t have to scrimp and save for a wedding or mortgage or give up his freedom when he has children. His parents’ money buys him out of the obligations us little people have. If he’s happy then good for him.

They've been together for seven months, but three of these have been in lockdown, when they have been, presumably, separated??

My parents were married at 17 &21, togethwr 18months before, I was born 6mths later...( Not married because they were expecting me,as date had already been set before)
35 yrs later, still married.
I was engaged at 20, had been with DP 4 years , 2 Dc , 9 yrs later seperated , never married....
I dont see BB age as an issue, maybe length of time together

@RJnomore1

He’s a photographer isn’t he?

No. No, he really isn't.

His parents’ money buys him out of the obligations us little people have.

Au contraire, his parents’ money and chosen career as media puppets who pimp out their own children for publicity oblige him to perform for the cameras at all times. What a life. No thanks.

I got engaged to DH at 21, married at 23, made MIL a grandma when she was 46.

We're still v happily married with two children and over two decades behind us. DH says he knew immediately I was it for him. Sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn't.

How did this thread turn into “I was engaged at 9, married at 14 and we’re still together 146 years later”?

I like @Frownette 's take on it

Who cares?

They spent lockdown together.
I’m laughing at PP dying they hope the media leave them alone.
The Beckhams would shrivel up if the media left them alone. They adore attention.
Wouldn’t be what I’d want for my kids, but as others have said, she comes from wealth too. It won’t financially impact them. Why not?
He doesn’t appear to have anything else going on in his life.

@Hinckers

They've been together for seven months, but three of these have been in lockdown, when they have been, presumably, separated??

I thought he spent lock down living with her in the states? Obviously must have been all over media as I don't really engage with celebrity stuff, lots of people enjoy that and it's fine, but for me to know that it must be well known :o

I don't really engage with celebrity stuff, lots of people enjoy that and it's fine, but for me to know that it must be well known

On the contrary. I follow very few celebs, I could count less than ten that I'd have any idea even who they are and those ten were probably famous twenty years ago. I don't know why but I follow VB and I had no idea where BB lives let alone spent lockdown. I think you must take more than a passing interest to know such detail

His parents have had a successful marriage and met when they were young, so no I wouldn’t be particularly concerned.

His parents have had a successful marriage

@Pixxie7

His parents have had a successful marriage and met when they were young, so no I wouldn’t be particularly concerned.

Depends how you define 'successful' given that there has been at least one confirmed case of him cheating and persistent rumours of him putting it about for years.