Hoping to be an 09 bride

I just wanted to introduce myself. My name is Meg and as the topic title states I hope to be an 09 bride. My bf and I have been together for a bit over 2 years now and we've actually talked a lot about getting engaged and marriage. I'm still in school (getting my PhD) and we want to wait to get married until after I am finished (Dec 2008). The FH says we'll be engaged before I finish school so here's to hoping

A little about the bf and I. We actually met through a car club. We both drove MINI Coopers at the time and belonged to a tristate area car club which meets a few times a month. He is originally from NJ and for the first year or so of dating we did the long distance (he lived about 2 hours from LI) dating thing...it ****** only seeing each other on the weekends.
In Nov we moved into an apartment together on LI (he was great enough to move for me since I couldn't, being that I am in school and all) and its been great. He commuted to NJ for the last 8 months for his job and just found a new one on LI a few weeks ago.
We are going on vacation to Hawaii in a few days and I was hoping the proposal would happen there, but with the job change the bf says he needs some time to save money for a ring (what can I say I have expensive taste).
Anyway, thats a little bit about me. Just wanted to say hi since I have been lurking for a while (for some reason I've become wedding crazed in the last few months and already feel like I have most of it planned, hehe).