How long from meeting to marriage?

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Met dh in Jan 2004, married in August 2004.
50 guests, church wedding, reception for 50 at a local country house with 3 course meal and wine. Evening disco and buffet with additional guests.
Cost us £5000
I made my dress and my one bridesmaids, mum made the cake, we used family cars, a friend was photographer (free), family did the flowers, no charges from church or organist as family links.
I couldn't imagine spending years planning a wedding!

Interested to hear others stories.

Engaged after 1 year 2 months of dating. Our 3 month old baby was present at the proposal. We planned the wedding for 2 years away but was delayed by covid by 6 months.

We got together NYE 2020, engaged April 2022 and married NYE 2022. We actually met at school though but didn't see each other for about 15 years. We actually decided after 2 months to get married but with kids involved it wasn't that straight forward.

3 years and 2 months for us.

Met October last year, getting married in November so 13 months.

Met end of June, engaged December, married in April. 11 guests. Coming up to 25 years.

4 years and engaged 5 months before the wedding

3.25 years, spent first year doing holidays, 2nd year saving and then buying a house together and then after another year we had a registry office wedding with less than 10 ppl. I don't think I could deal with wedding planning and all that organisation as well as keep up with my career at the time to pay for house lol.

No engagement because we had already committed and mortgaged like crazy

6 months, 40 years ago. Still married!

1st husband we met at age 19 and 27, engaged after 1 year and married 2 years later. It only lasted 3 years but I knew before I married him it was wrong and wouldn't last, he was really controlling and jealous and I had to change how I behaved all the time, he wasn't a nice person, I think 2 years is more than enough to know someone well enough I just didn't have the bottle to stop things, it's very easy to get caught up with planning stuff and esp at a young age.

Current DH, we were together 4 years before we got married but already had 2 DC at that point, still together 18 years later.

Met DH in July 2017. We hooked up casually for a couple of years because it suited us both before becoming more serious towards the end of 2019. On 24 March 2020 he suggested I come to stay at his place “just for a couple of weeks, until this crazy is over, so we aren’t both alone.” I never moved out and he proposed in May 2021. Married September 2023. We purposely left the big gap as wanted to be certain that none of our guests were going to be subject to Covid vaccination or testing restrictions as half of them were flying in from all over the world (DH is American and we’ve both lived abroad in the past.)

Our wedding cost £40k to take 36 of our nearest and dearest all expenses paid for a long weekend on an exclusive private island, because we have money and love spending it on having a wonderful time with our many wonderful friends. Wouldn’t change a thing about any aspect of our relationship process or our lives.

Met Nov 2013, moved in together July 2014, got engaged November 2014, married April 2015, first baby born Jan 2016!

4 month engagement, we had a fairly traditional country house wedding, 80 guests, sit down meal, live band, big white dress etc. Despite the timescale, I wouldn't have changed a thing and have no idea how people can spend so long planning a wedding!

We knew each other from the same friendship group for a year before we got together. When we did finally get together we knew immediately we were going to get married, but we were quite young - I was still only 23, him 26.

We got engaged a year later and married a year after that. Still happy over 35 years after our first proper date.

Met September 1996, married September 2003.

Met October. Married 12 years later. DC1 a year after that.
Celebrating 25 years together this month! Crikey! Still only feels like around 8 years, to be honest.
Small 50-person wedding in the town hall and restaurant lunch for all. Dress off eBay, I still have it in a box somewhere.

Casual acquaintances for approx 6 years, we hadn’t seen each other in about 6 months, bumped into each other beginning of March 2011 had dinner the next day, pregnant by June 2011, married in Jan 2013.

Very casual laid back wedding, 40 guests plus 15 kids. Flower girls were rolling on the floor during the ceremony, apparently other kids cried, I had no idea as I wasn’t paying them attention. Don’t know costs, all done on the cheap, lots of DIY did our own flowers, bought our own booze, no dj just our own playlist, made my own wedding cake, bridal party outfits bought online or off the high street sales racks, wedding dress bought online. If I was to add it up about £3k tops.

Met in April 95, got married July 99. Really small wedding, 8 guests. My dress was £40 in a local boutique.

Met May 2002- I moved into his Dad's after about a year. Then we moved into our own place. Various moves, various cities and we got engaged in 2011 and married in 2021 lol. Got one DD born in 2013.

We met when I was 21 and he was 18.

Met in 2015, engaged in 2018, married in 2020.

Met 28th May 2006 married 28th 2011 🥰

Met in February 2016, engaged late 2018, married July 2019. Massive country wedding (church then marquee on the farm, 100 to the day, a couple hundred more for the evening etc) and it was beyond fabulous. Cost us a fortune but it was worth every penny. We then fucked off travelling on the other side of the world for our honeymoon.

5 months between meeting and getting married. Married 43 years and still very happy and in love (no children)

Met aged 30, engaged 31, child 38, married 43. Long engagement due to us both being atheists. One family strong catholics, plus blended family strife, families not getting on. Ended up doing it in Vegas with our 5 year old as only guest. Told no one and had an absolutely wonderful time. Exchange rate was almost $2 to £1 so the whole month long trip including wedding, hotels, flights, honeymoon driving around Arizona and California cost us £2,500. This was 15 years ago and we are still happily married.

Met in July 92, I was 20. Engaged Dec 95. DC1 arrived in 97 and DC2 in 99. Married in Sept 2000. Together 31 years and still going strong.

Met in Dec 1978
Married July 1981 (so just over two and a half years)

Still together