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How long were you and DH together before engagement and then marriage

204 replies

Charlavail · 19/11/2022 16:37

Feeling sorry for myself and want to see how our situation measure up to others.

OP posts:
pinkfishbluefish · 19/11/2022 16:39

Just under 2.5 years to engagement, wedding not planned yet. He wants sooner but I’d rather wait until 2025. No rush I don’t think. Everyone has their own time scales.

ThePug · 19/11/2022 16:40

Got engaged on our 10 year anniversary! That said we met at University at 18. How long has it been OP?

StampOnTheGround · 19/11/2022 16:40

8 years before engagement and then 18 months later we got married 😊

ThePug · 19/11/2022 16:41

Oh, and we got married 10 months later.

ChessieDarling · 19/11/2022 16:42

Together 2 years 6 months when we got engaged and married 6 months later. We were 21 and 23 when we met.
why are you feeling down about your own situation op?

Flowersinamilkbottle · 19/11/2022 16:44

9 months until we were engaged and then married 7 months after that.

pointythings · 19/11/2022 16:45

We were together for 5 years, engagement was only 4 months long. We had 20 good years and then 5 horrendous ones.

IDontWantToBeAPie · 19/11/2022 16:45

Lol it's been 9 years and we're still not engaged 😂 We got together young though so not yet 30.

hesbeingabitofadick · 19/11/2022 16:45

6 weeks until we got engaged.
Nearly 9yrs before we got married.
Together 20yrs now.

Santagiveyoursackawash · 19/11/2022 16:46

Met November 2012 .
Engaged Jan 2014.
Ds born September 2014.
Married July 2015.

ExplodingCarrots · 19/11/2022 16:46

Got engaged when we were together 9 years, married 2 years later .

mynameiscalypso · 19/11/2022 16:46

5 years until we were engaged. Got married a year later. Had a baby 4 years after that.

newusernamegladys · 19/11/2022 16:46

2 weeks 😬 Knew each other for 2 months. Married for 23?years now 😁

ilovemotorways · 19/11/2022 16:47

Started going out with now DH when I was 17. Got married in lockdown December 2020 which was exactly 6 years since our first date in 2014 (at kfc) xxx

YeahThanks · 19/11/2022 16:47

6 months before engaged, 3 months to married. Been together for 27 years.

Brandymakesmerandy · 19/11/2022 16:47

We've been engaged for 28 years 🤣
You can't rush into these things 🤷‍♀️🤣😂

IncompleteSenten · 19/11/2022 16:47

We were married 3 months after our first meeting.
Been married nearly 25 years now.

MontyK · 19/11/2022 16:48

Together 3 yrs before getting married which was probably too quick in retrospect. Kids came 7 years after getting married and we have been together 17 yrs in total.

youcantry · 19/11/2022 16:48

Engaged after 10 years (we met when we were 18). Married two years later. Now divorced

Simonjt · 19/11/2022 16:48

We got engaged about 18 months after we met, we got married on the anniversary of our second date, we got married at the place we met.

ShadowPuppets · 19/11/2022 16:48

Met in 2012 (aged 23 and 26)
Moved in together 2014
Engaged 2016
Married 2018 (aged 29 and 32)
DCs born 2020 and 2022

We joke that we alternate boring odd years and exciting even years. God knows what’ll happen in 2024 😂

trevthecat · 19/11/2022 16:49

Together 6 years when engaged, 7 when married. Already owned a house Together and had a child Together before engagement

RiderGirl · 19/11/2022 16:49

Er met Aug 2008, engaged Dec 2008, married Aug 2011. Still very happily together.

Tarkan · 19/11/2022 16:50

Everyone has their own timescales.

We met August 2013, engaged March 2015 then married May 2018.

It worked perfectly for us, my brother got married before us so my parents urged us to wait as they wanted to give us money towards our day and they wouldn't have been able to do that if it was too close to my brother's wedding. We managed to save up for the other costs and did the entire day and honeymoon without any debt.

We knew people who met, got engaged and married in the time between our engagement and wedding, and I've known people together for a lot longer before getting engaged and married, but we did what was right for us.

Lilacbluecloud · 19/11/2022 16:50

10 years before we got engaged, then we got married three months later. We've been married for 6 years and have two children.