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?!)

I was 22 when we got together. Insanely moved in together less than two months after starting a relationship, got engaged three months after that, got married a little over a year after that, had ds1 9 months after the wedding.

We're almost 17 years in to our relationship and to be honest up until a couple of years ago it was fantastic; the issues we are dealing with now don't stem from the timings when we got together and I don't think they are at all relevant. That said I would never advise any couple to go from first date to living together within 7 weeks as we did!

Together nearly 5 years when we got married. Engaged at about 3.5 years. We’d moved in together and started ttc much earlier though as time wasn’t on our side with those things and indeed it took me 4 years to get pregnant.

I have a good friend who met and married her DH within the year. They’re still together 2 kids and 8 years later.

I’ve known my husband since we were kids. Officially got together when we were 19. Moved in together at 21 and married at 27 so around 8 years into our relationship.

Met at work Summer 2013,
Going out Spring 2014,
Engaged Autumn 2014,
Married Summer 2015.
Baby Spring 2018.

So from meeting to marriage 2 years.

363 days after first date. Had been chatting for 3.5 months online as we lived in different cities.

11 years from becoming a couple to engagement but we were 19 and at different universities when we got together.
Married 2 years after that.

I met my husband on my 16th birthday in 1995 - best present ever haha!
We started dating a month later, got engaged after 8 years, married in 2003 and are still happy.

We were friends for a year.

Dated for 3

Lived together for 1

Engaged for 2.

Married now for almost 10.

No rush to any of it.

Happy as we can be.

Oh and had a baby after 2 years of marriage.

We got married after 3 years, engaged for about 8 months. We needed to be engaged though and then get married for me to get a visa (not to say we didn't want to be and we've so far had a long and happy marriage), but under normal circumstances we might have waited an extra year or so. We were just sick of living in different countries and never seeing each other.

Met July
Engaged December
Married June

20 years ago

First kiss at 17 in the December of 1986 , engaged in the following February of 1987

But didn’t get married til nearly 4 years Later, october 1990

First child January 1999

So quick to engagement, slow to marriage 😀

@SleepingStandingUp we are getting married in August this year (2020) in a low key ceremony with just our parents. Not in England so weddings are possible still, although no party. So we will have been together two years but engaged for only 6ish months.

Met July 2007, moved in together Nov 2008... got engaged Jan 2018... yesss very long wait but we got married quickly after that 6 months later. Just had our first child and he is still my best friend almost 13 years after meeting.

Started dating Feb 2010, engaged 6 weeks later and married in Sept.

Everyone thought it was too fast and we were young. But we knew it was right for us and didnt want the build up to a big wedding.

10 year anniversary this year and it's been tough but also amazing.

So many lovely stories

Got together October 2012,
Long distance March 2013-November 2013
Moved in together November 2013
Engaged December 2015
Married June 2016!

Short engagements are the best I think! Happy wedding day!

Met in March 2009
Living together by September 2009
Engaged December 2010
Married April 2012

2 children and 11 years later and I wouldn't change a thing.

Sounds totally reasonable. My dh moved in after less than a year (a bit rushed but I needed a replacement lodger!), we got engaged after 2 years and married after 3 (pregnant after 4 etc). Had we been younger we would have taken more time I think but we were 29 and 30 when we met.

Got together as a couple in 2007 (we knew each other from the pub previously), bought a house together in 2014, decided last October to get married and booked wedding for May this year which didn't happen obviously. Rebooked for October this year and very much hoping it will go ahead. We couldn't be accused of rushing into it 😂

First H however, met and married in six months ! In fairness that did last 15 years so not a complete disaster.

Colleagues then dated two years, engaged ten months. Moved in together three days after we were married. Still colleagues.

Got engaged after 1 year and 7 months, married 9 months after that (so 2 years and 4 months after getting together). Been married for 6 and a half years now with one DS :) We were young too. DH was 22 and I was 25 when we married. I believe we are in it for life, we work well together :)

First time round 10 years

Second time around we got engaged after a year and married 2 years later

Friends/colleagues at work for a few months; started dating and married 3 weeks later

We were long distance, moved in together after 3 months. Engaged after 2 years, married 6 months later. 4 years on and very happy.