Julianne Hough: In Mormon culture, three months is a long time to be engaged
Late last summer, Julianne Hough announced her engagement to certified hottie Brooks Laich. Brooks is a professional hockey player and he is GORGEOUS. If that tall drink of water was giving me a giant 5-carat diamond rings, I would want to lock that sh-t down so hard and so fast. But not Julianne. She’s been engaged for five months and she and Brooks have still not set a date. Her excuse is that she’s busy. TOO BUSY TO LOCK IT DOWN. She knows she’s playing with fire too – she tells People Magazine that it feels really weird to be engaged this long without setting a date, mostly because that kind of thing is just not done with Mormons.
Julianne Hough is in no rush to wed fiancé Brooks Laich. Her Mormon father has advised that “the minute you get engaged, you have to set a date,” but Hough says in the latest issue of PEOPLE that she and Laich are “just really enjoying” this stage in their relationship.
“In Mormon culture, three months is a long time to be engaged,” she says. “But we plan on being together forever, so we have time.”
Which is a good thing, because Hough, 27, and Laich, 32, are a little busy right now. Hough is rehearsing to star as Sandy in Fox’s upcoming Grease: Live (airing Jan. 31) and Laich, a Washington Capitals centerman, spends his weeks traveling across the country for NHL games.
Despite the frequent physical distance between the two, Hough says Laich “grounds” her. Still, neither half of the couple plans to slow down in the near future. So even though Hough says she’s wanted to be a mom since she was 5 years old, that won’t be happening “any time soon.”
“I’m all over the place,” she says. “So it’s really nice to have a solid path [with Brooks] now.”
It’s not that I forgot that Julianne was/is a Mormon – I actually think about it every time I write about her – but I guess I just thought that she had moved away from the church of Latter Day Saints in the past few years. I mean, she’s shacked up with Brooks, right? I think they’ve been living together for a while, and they’re already raising dogs together. My guess is that she still considers herself a Mormon but she lives a more liberal lifestyle than most people in LDS. By all accounts, Brooks does not belong to LDS. So I wonder where they’ll marry?
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