How quickly did you get engaged?

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Just being nosy. A friend has recently got engaged after five weeks - which sounds insane but they knew each other throughout childhood and growing up, and stayed in touch then got together casually, broke up and reconnected again recently. And they're absolutely perfect for each other, we all said they would always end up together so it doesn't feel crazy...

Whereas I was with my other half for ten years before we got engaged! It just got me thinking about how it's so different for everyone and I wondered what the average kind of time is - I'm guessing we are both very opposite ends of the spectrum!

5 nearly 6 years when got engaged and got married a year later, been married for a year now

I’ve been proposed to twice (two different boyfriends) within 6-12 months of dating.

Both times after I’ve made it clear I am not planning to live with a man prior to getting married.

4 years. But we had a child together 14 months after meeting, so we did move quicker in some respects!

Nine years. We met at 19, engaged at 28, married at 29. Engagement is setting a date for me, I didn't want to promise to spend the rest of my life with someone any earlier, and we didn't want to get married until late 20's to maximise the chance of staying together. Therefore no point in getting engaged earlier and risking a failed engagement.
Together 33 years now.

We weren’t even dating when he asked me to marry him, but we'd known each other as best friends for years by that point. Technically it was 2 days between him asking and me accepting, and we were married 2 months later!

Still married, still blissfully happy. If it had been anyone else I’d have told them they were mad. I’m not entirely sure we weren’t mad, but we are jolly happy 😊

Around 4 weeks ( we knew each other for 3 years before though) , we married 2 years later and we’ve now been married 13 years this year. Time flies!

😂😂two weeks here ,married after six months ,been married 18 years now.

No engagement as such with either, so met and married exH within 6 months and it lasted 15 years. DH and I had a conversation about marriage after 13 years together and married within a year of that.

As soon as we could. We were both at the tail end of divorces when we got together. Got married approx 2 months later. Been together for 15 years.

3 weeks. Had known him (worked together) for about 3 months though. It took a while to actually get married as we just got engaged and didn't do anything about it. It was always we're engaged and one day when we can be arsed to organise something we'll get married. Once we decided to do it we just went for it and got married 3 weeks later. Its our 19th anniversary this year.

My parents met each other, got engaged 6 weeks later then married 10 months after. This year is they're 48th anniversary

Two weeks and married 8 months later. Looking back I married a stranger, stayed together some 18 years.

4 months, married a year later. Currently 10 years in. We were quite old though (me mid 30’s, DH 40).

Started dating in May, engaged in March, married in October. That was 2 1/2 years ago and we're still happy!

In 1990 it was 9 months after we’d started seeing each other and his choice and proposal, Paris. He wanted to marry me pretty much from the start but was a soldier on leave when we met. Pity we only lasted 2.5 years in total. My decision to break it off.

Less than a month. As a parent now I think I’d be appalled if I were my parents but they were all for it and we’ve been happy for many years.

Then in my 30s I was proposed to and engaged unofficially after seeing a man for just under a year (we’d broken up before because he kept on whinging about his hated boss). Then I realised he had a weed and drink problem, hated his mother (who was nice to me!), I got the ick, and dumped him, no engagement ring thank god but he wanted to get one and was planning a trip to jewellers with me before I dumped him… god I sound a bitch! 😮🫣

Engaged after three months. Married seven months after that. Been married 27 years. I knew him vaguely before I got together. He’s the best man I know.

Engaged after 11 months, married 6 months later. I moved in with him when we'd been together 3 months though. Must have been mad but we are still happy 20 years later.

One year. But I knew after about three weeks!

We booked our wedding venue after 9 months but he proposed and we made the public announcement on our first anniversary. We are due to marry this year on our third anniversary.

A year. I was pregnant after 7 weeks of being with him though. He saved up for a ring.

24 years in and happily not engaged.

4 weeks, we had known each other a bit before and on the first time we actually spent proper time together on our own we spoke about getting married.

5 months!

A year. If he hadn't proposed around then I'd have moved on.

11years this year.