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?!)

Met online in about April or May 2001, it wasn't an online dating site, we were just online friends who chatted about stuff.
Met 'in real life' in about 2004 and we were friends for a while before we ended up in a relationship.
Got engaged in 2006 and married in 2007

Met in April.
Engaged in August (4 months later)
Married in October (9 weeks later)
Baby in March 😂

Do we win the thread?

We were together 8 years before we got married. It was 6 months between deciding to get married and the day. Married 10 years. Then divorced.

July 2006 Colleagues
Feb 2007 Dating
Dec 2008 Moved in together
Feb 2013 Bought House
Oct 2014 Got engaged
April 2015 Married - short engagement due to terminally ill parent who didn't survive to see the wedding, however still had a fabulous day - which is what they would have wanted knowing there was no more pain for them

Together for a year got engaged were married 8 months later. Still happily married 14 years later

Met & married in 14 months. 29 years in October.

We got married for a green card. I don't think we'd have bothered otherwise.

But we'd been together 3 or 4 years at that point, and we've now been married 20 years and have 3 kids together.

9 years. But 4 of those we lived 600km apart due to uni. Then 3 years living together with no real thought about marriage. Then plans to move abroad which caused the marriage idea to pop up as it would make things easier.

Another 18 months with moving and getting the wedding organised.

That was 19 years ago, so together a total of 28 years this July.

H1 - vague colleagues 6 months, started dating, moved in together 2 months later and married 8 months after that - married for 9 years

DH2 - met at a party, married 11 months later, still very happily married 20 years on

Met and married within 6 months in 1981. Still going!

Together 20+ years, not married, no kids, no plans to marry. If it ain’t broke...

We may at some point consider CP, purely as a legal procedure. Definitely no ‘wedding’.

Met in September, married in February - 5 months later.
Married over 4 years now and it was the best decision ever. Due our second baby next month!

We were engaged five months after we met, married within 18 months and celebrating our 20th wedding anniversary soon.

Married within 18 months, just had our 21st anniversary,

I think when you know, you know. I was with my ex for 12 years never wanted to get married. Got with DH really quickly but like you, we had been friends for ages so l knew him really well. Pregnant within 2 years got married when DD was 3 even though l had spent years telling myself l didn't want marriage or babies....obvs was with the wrong person before!

@Plancina

We have both been married before (my decree absolute only came through recently due to a very torturous and lengthy divorce!).

With that behind me, I would say never get married again. Haven't you had enough?

25 years.

Part of loose friendship group for two years, dated for two years, engaged 6 months. Married 30 years.

Met in 2002.
Got engaged 2005
Had a baby 2007
Decided to actually get married 2015
Still together 2020

Met May 2015
Engaged January 2016
Married July 2016

We'd been together about a year and half when we got engaged, married 9 months later. So just shy of 2 and half years, and it'll be our 3rd wedding anniversary on Wednesday.

Together 13y, 2 DCs. Solid as a rock, just never wanted any fuss of a wedding. Finally, taken a plunge and booked simple wedding ceremony for beginning of June only for everything to be postponed because of COVID-19! It would have been done and dusted by now

We got married after 3 years together and of those, we spent 1 year cohabiting. We have now been together for 8 years, our wedding anniversary in August will be our 5th.

We're a little different though as DH was from the US living in the UK on a work visa, so we took the decision to marry sooner to ensure we could always stay together. We knew we were going to marry anyway, but we sacrificed the wedding part in doing it sooner because we didn't have the funds.

I first met my husband end of April 2014, we became a couple 9th may 2014. We decided to start trying for a baby in July 2014, we moved in together in October 2014, I got pregnant in November 204, we found out I was pregnant 19th December 2014. We got engaged 13th January 2015, and got married 9th April 2015.
So we had been together exactly 11 months the day we got married. I know it's very quick, being married and expecting a baby within less than a year of being together, but it worked for us. We had discussed marriage and both agreed it was what we wanted, but we weren't officially engaged. But we knew it was important to us to be married before the baby was born, so we made sure we were. It was perfect.
I'd just turned 21 when we met, he was 29. I was a student and he worked full time but we still made it work, and couldn't be happier.

Oh, and when I rang Register Office to enquire about our booking, I was told marriages will resume not earlier than September:(

I am not sure about other Registry Offices, but OP's marriage might not be happening in August.