This is kind of a non-story, but CB and I were talking about it, and I do find it fascinating. Last November, Anne Hathaway got engaged to her boyfriend of three years, Adam Shulman. There were of course some rumors that Anne might have been fooling around on Adam at some point (coughcoughChristianBalecough), but for the most part, Anne and Adam seemed happy together, and Adam seems like a steady, no-drama influence on Anne after her disastrous relationship with con artist Raffaello Follieri. So Anne and Adam got engaged in November, and they just threw themselves an engagement party last month. But guess when their wedding date is? October… 2013!!

Anne Hathaway is no ordinary bride-to-be! Though she won’t walk down the aisle until October 2013, the actress and her fiance Adam Shulman celebrated their love at an engagement party in February. Held in a New York City bookstore, Hathaway opted for unexpected details, like serving vegan fare and tucking her favorite flowers, ranunculus and anemones, inside bird-shaped vases.

“Everything so was fun, just like Annie,” a pal tells the current issue of Us Weekly (out now).

Hathaway’s big day will be filled with equally playful touches. The Devil Wears Prada actress, 29, told one friend she wants cupcakes, while another pal reveals she has selected a venue in upstate New York: “But they’re keeping it a secret until right before!”

Hathaway dated Shulman, 31, for three years before he proposed with a 6-carat, $150,000 ring from Kwiat. “We hit it off immediately, but it took us a pretty long time to get together,” Hathaway has said.

[From Us Weekly]

Doesn’t this seem like an especially long engagement? They’re waiting nearly two years from the proposal to the wedding. Sure, some people do that. Some people just stay “engaged” for years and years. Some people like to really take the time to plan out an elaborate wedding. So don’t even yell at me and tell me that I’m an idiot for suggesting that “two years” is a long time to wait. I get it. Every couple is different. Anne and Adam have every right to set their wedding date whenever they want. But I just think it’s weird. My thought was that the “average couple” probably sets the date 12-14 months from the proposal, but some people say the average is more like 18 months.

So… I guess at the end of the day, I kind of wonder if something is going to happen and Anne ends up canceling the wedding. It’s 19 months away! That’s a long time for Anne to screw around on Adam, you know? You’d think that Adam would want to lock this down sooner.

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