If you watched a lot of movies growing up, you probably figured as a kid that one day you?d have a big fancy wedding with lots of plates and champagne flutes and a DJ and Julia Roberts as your bridesmaid. Then you grow and realize that kind of wedding is insanely expensive (especially Julia Roberts). A lot of lower income couples are putting off marriage because they can?t afford the big wedding.
But what do you call the person you intend to marry (eventually, when you win the lotto, and he like, proposes) after eight years and maybe even a kid? More and more couples are calling each other ?fianc?? to signify to extended family that they?re not breaking up any time soon and just to use a word that implies more than ?boyfriend?. [Source]
