How long did you all wait before getting married?

[Plancina]

I’m getting married in August and feeling curious - would love to hear other people’s engagement and wedding stories! We have been friends/colleagues for 7 years and got together two years ago as a couple. We got engaged in February this year and decided with all the virus craziness we’d like to marry sooner in a small ceremony and plan a big reception for next year to celebrate rather than wait to be married. We have both been married before (my decree absolute only came through recently due to a very torturous and lengthy divorce!).
Our families and friends are mostly hugely happy and supportive, my MIL to be has suggested she thinks it’s too soon .
Anyone out there get married even sooner than us (surely there must be?!)

Friends for a year, on/off for 6 years, got engaged then we’d 6 months later. No regrets 30 years on. You’re going to have a lovely time! Congratulations!

Together 8yrs before proposal
Married a year later
Still together 18yrs on since meeting

When are you actually getting married? It's hard to judge if people have done it quicker only knowing you got engaged Feb.

We met online Sept2011, official dating Oct2011, moved in Feb2012, engaged Apr2012, married Apr2012, baby1 May2015 as took a while ttc and babyies2/3 Dec2019

Well, I'm guessing you were head-over-heels-wouldn't-hear-a-single-negative-thing about your first husband, and look how that turned out!
Why would you want to jump so heartily into another marriage so quickly? There's no rush, if you're going be together forever then you can wait to be married.

It took 9 long years for my gorgeous husband to propose to me. He finally did on Christmas Day, and I married in May. All a rush (abroad) but I couldn’t wait any longer.

We met in 2006, got engaged in 2008 and married in 2010. It felt right, and to be honest if it feels right that's the only thing to focus on.

I know a couple of married people who got married very quickly - one was SIL whose wedding lasted less than a month (and without wanting to be brutal she'd known the man for less than a month when they married so of course it didn't stand much of a chance). The others have been married for 20 years (after a 6 month romance) and despite some really tough times they're one of the very loveliest couples I know. It's what works for you, and a little bit of good fortune.

Congratulations, have a perfect day.

We were married about 6 months after we got engaged too! It was great because we wanted low key - and when we saw people later in the year who enquires about what our wedding plans for and basically Wondering where their invite was - I was able to say oh we are already married haha

Yep. I had known DH for about 10 years and we had been very close friends for a good 4ish years before we got together. We got married a week after our one year anniversary and have just found out we have a baby on the way. I wouldn't do it any differently, it worked for us and it felt right for us. Every relationship is different, I know couples who have been together 10+ years and have children and aren't engaged or married.

Friends 1999-2000
FWB 2000 - 2001
Moved in 2002
Engaged 2003
Married 2004
DS 2005

One year and ten months from when we started 'going out' and fell madly for each other - ten months to engagement and then ten months to wedding - but we did know each other for a couple of years before that and were friendly.

We were that couple. Met , engaged 6 weeks later, married a year after that.

Had our 21st wedding anniversary earlier this month 😁

Together 4 years before he proposed - probably won't get married for a while yet but that's mainly because we have other priorities like saving for our mortgage deposit etc

Friends/knew each other for 1 year.
Together 2 years, then engaged for a year.

So marriage after 4 years of knowing each other, 3 years of going out with each other.

Met in August

Moved in together in October

Got engaged in December

Married in September

So engaged 4 months after meeting and married 13 months after meeting.

It seems absolutely crazy when I look at that written down, but we've been married for 21 years this year 👰😍

When it's right, it's right.

Oh and I had split up with my ex in the January before I met DH.

We married 3 years and 3 months after we met. 6 month engagement, didn’t see the point in hanging around but we had a fantastic all-the-frills big day.

Together for 4 years, engaged for 1 and have been married 24.

We met and married within a year!
No regrets!

We were (very flirty) colleagues for about six months before we got together. Less than a year later we’d bought our first house which in hindsight was very quick, but didn’t feel like it at the time!

We got engaged after 4 years and got married after 5 and a half years. We’ve now been married for just over a year.

We got engaged 11 months after we first met,got married exactly a year after our engagement and are still together 35 years later.

Got together Sept 2015, moved in May 2016, engaged Nov 2017, DS Oct 2019, supposed to get married June 2020, now postponed until April 2021.

We got married exactly two years after meeting and have been married for 7 years now with 2dc. Does seem soon looking back but it has worked out well for us so far! Bit surprised you would jump in so quickly after a torturous divorce though!!

DH and I 'met' when he was coming up to his 6th birthday and I was four days old Our families used to see each other once or twice a year. Started seeing each other regularly when I was 17 - 'regularly' meaning weekends only as we lived seventy miles apart. Engaged after 8 weeks (October) and married the following March. It was our 37th anniversary this year.

DH proposed 18 months after we got together and we were married 2 years after that. Then waited 8 years before having DC.

Met 3rd January 2004, engaged 29th February 2004, married 28th August 2004! First child born June 2005, second child September 2007.
Very happy together!

We met at 21, were together at 22, were engaged by 24, married by 26. So 5 years between meeting and marrying. Now we are nearly 30, pregnant on our second kid.