I met my husband in November, by February we were engaged, and the following October we were married. It worked for us, but I’m not so sure I’d recommend it.
How long was it from your first date until the proposal of marriage? How long until the wedding? If you aren’t married, what do you think the shortest amount of time is exceptable between the first date and being engaged and getting married?
9 months to the proposal. It would have been earlier, but I moved to run a camp for 3 months, and he didn’t want to propose to me when I was wearing olive green Boy Scout socks. We were married 7 months after that. I don’t think there’s a minimum time limit. I do think engagements can go too long though. Either you do or you don’t.
We started living together about a week after we met. We got engaged 3 years later – but we were in college at the time. It was a little more than a year between engagement and wedding – but again, college, and we wrote our entire wedding ceremony from scratch.
We met in January 1992 and by the 12th of December 1992 we were married.
We don’t remember when we met and it was about a year before we actually dated (we were friends first and I was dating his friend). It was a year from engagement to wedding.
I met my wife on the internet. December 28th. she thought I was amusing and she wanted to meet Wilson. She thought I was exaggerating about him. (She found out I was not lying). We actually met on April 3rd. It was email, phone calls, and telephone before that.
We have been together since. April 17 will be 10 years od marriage.
we dated for 6.5 years before getting engaged and then were engaged 6 weeks before getting married. one thing super slow, one thing super fast.
I had been engaged twice before I met my husband.
When we met, I hated him.
Then we started hanging out. I didn’t know we were dating at the time.
He never tried to hold my hand or kiss me. I figured he was either gay or not interested.
Then I found out one day he wasn’t gay and was definitley interested. One year later he proposed, 6 months later we married.
I’ve been with my bf for the past 3.5 years. We’ve been living together for 2.5 years and have been talking about weddings/rings etc for awhile now, but he’s still in school so it’ll probably be another year or two.
I don’t think that there’s any blanket rule of thumb for every couple. I think that it all depends on the particular situation of the couple. Currently, we don’t have the time or money to spend on a wedding, but we’re not in any hurry either. I suspect we’ll do something similar to Jennifer.