How long into the relationship did your parents meet your partner’s parents?

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Just that really!

DP and I have been seeing each other just over 5 years and our parents haven’t met each other yet.
A friend was flabbergasted the other day when it somehow came up in conversation.
I’d never really thought of it before. We hadn’t kept them apart on purpose, just that they live in different areas and neither me nor DP has had a big party or anything to get everyone together.
I guess if we got engaged they could meet at the engagement party?

On our wedding day, more or less 3 years to the day after we started our relationship.

We're coming up four years and they've only met briefly once!

Once we got engaged they thought they should meet ahead of the wedding. They met a few times in the run up to the wedding but I don't think they have since. We are not the sort to have big family parties and tend to do things separately with different family members.

My parents abd in laws live in different countries but about a short fight. We got engaged after 18 months and our parents met then for the first time. They met at the wedding and maybe 2 or 3 times since, so about 5 times in 14 years! They do like each other and get on, but distance makes a big difference.!

After five years when we had our little one.
They live in different countries and don't speak the same language so not really much interest in either side tbh.
If we had decided not to have children I don't think they will have met.

At our wedding 3.5 years into the relationship

We've been together more than 20 years and they've only met on our wedding day.

Once we got engaged we asked both parents over for tea. They also met again at the mass rehearsal.

They met on our wedding day, 6 years after we met....

So I’m not the odd one out! Glad it’s the norm, I thought it was.

I met DH when we were both postgrad students. His parents were visiting 3 days after we got together. He foiled all my attempts to leave his flat before they arrived.

At the church rehearsal before we got married after five year's together!

The day before our wedding, two years after we got together. It wasn't easy to arrange before as we are from different countries.

Big meal out together at apx 4 years in. (We'd been living together for 2 of those already.)

Next time they met was at our wedding 2 years after that.

Wedding day, first and only time during our 20 year relationship.

Hard to remember - maybe after a year or so? I think pils just invited dm for dinner.

My dad and step mum met DH’s mum probably about 4 years in but that was just because they were both visiting us coincidentally at the same time. They properly met the night before the wedding which was just short of 6 years. Like you, we’re all spread out so only together for big events (or by pure coincidence).

Before we got together. We were friends at University first and they met at our graduation.

A week before we got married, 9m after we got engaged (less than 2.5y together)

they live in different countries so there was no other opportunity before

Together 9 years, married 3 and they still haven’t met (we eloped).

Ours met on Zoom mid-pandemic, about 3.5 years into our relationship. DP’s parents are back in Detroit where he grew up, mine are here in the UK, neither of our dads will ever fly so whilst our mums will meet at our wedding in a couple of years, our dads are never likely to meet in person at all.

Think it was at about 6 years when marriage and babies were on the cards

8 years and counting but then we aren't married and dont have kids, I cant really see them meeting to be honest.

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