How long were you engaged before you got married?

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Just that really…
Wondering if my engagement is beyond the average! Google said 15 months which doesn’t seem long to plan a wedding to me!

We didn't make a big deal of it and I didn't have a ring because I didn't want one.

11 months. Met in November, got engaged the following July, and married June of the following year.

18 months! Planning was absolutely fine in that time.

We were never engaged. This was 40 years ago and we had no money! It wasn't uncommon then. We just decided to get married. My husband gave me a beautiful diamond ring on our 30th anniversary, though.

6 weeks. Decided in July, married 1st week in September 20 years this year.

1.5 years. We wanted to get married in April but the priest said no so we got married 2 month after.

I booked the church and the venue 1 year in advance.
There wasn’t much to plan tbh…… registrar, rings, dress, suits, bridesmaids dresses, food, evening music, transport for us and guests, simple favours….done!

It was more the facts I had to save as we had just got a mortgage at 23 and we were married at 25!
This was 11 years ago

4 months

Just under a year, though we'd bought a house and been living together five years. Got engaged July, married the following June. And on our first wedding anniversary I was 37 weeks pregnant.

Decided to get married and did it a month later.

I proposed to my now wife in 2008. We got married in 2022...

Why did you wait so long to get married?

We got married 5 months after he proposed though had been together 4 years before he proposed. We were quite young .e decided there was no point in waiting.

had a small wedding with 40 people, a perfect day….apart from the cake but that’s another story.

pissed off a friend though who had planned her wedding for 2 years and were getting married later in the year! Hey ho! X

Just under two years, engaged in March 2016 married January 2018 we were mid house renovations and got married abroad so wanted to give people plenty of notice.

Not long after proposal we ended up with 2 back to back kids, life happened and we were skint. We clawed our way to financial security over the years and both agreed it felt right to do it in around 2020 but covid happened. It doesn't matter to us. If you're still happy to marry each other after 16 years engaged, thats a good sign!

I was never engaged. We decided to get married and 6 months later we did. The wedding organisation consisted of booking a register office, telling folk, and going down the pub. My sister took less time, and didn’t bother with the bit about telling folk, and I half wish we’d done the same, but we had adult kids who’d have been pissed off.

6 months from proposal to wedding, though we knew we were going to get married for probably 1.5-2 years before then. We planned a wedding (from another country) and did an international move and set up house with nothing in a new country in those 6 months.

Wedding planning was not one of my favourite things. In fact, after we got married, I told Dh we cannot get divorced because I refuse to ever do that again. Love being married, but any more than 6 months of thinking about a wedding would have done me in. 😂

First time 18 months, we were 26 and 28.

Second time, 9 months.

4 years engaged so far no plans for the wedding as of yet. We’ve been together over 20years.

If you had agreed to get married and started planning a wedding you were engaged. Whether there was a ring or a formal proposal is immaterial.

First date was Friday 13th August. Engaged 2 weeks later and married 6 months after that. Wedding g was planned for December, but his mum died in November so we pushed the date back a bit. Been married 31 years now.
The only stressful part was the guest list. Only my parents and sisters could be arsed, but it was a job to narrow it down to 250 of his closest friends and family!

6months.
We didn’t see any reason to wait.

Met 6 March
He became ill on a date on 24th august- was in a coma for 3 weeks (and his romantic rehab goal was to ask my dad for my hand in marriage- he did that in the November, engaged on Dec 11th (night before the 3 month consultant checkup). We got married the following September- mainly because he was in rehab and it took him that long to be able to say a speech in full). Married a year and a week after he got out of hospital- a year after he said he loved me after all of the trauma... he could say 6 words when he got out of hospital- he lost all speech and right sided movement during the 3 weeks of constant epileptic fits.
We have been married for nearly 6 years.

6 months. We wanted to be married that’s it.

Go married at a local venue we had it for an hour. Their weddings start at £15 K we had it for an hour for £500 on the day before a wedding. It was perfect. Even both our wedding bands together were £500. Lunch for 15 people was £200 at our favourite lunch time cafe. My dress was £80 and he wore a suit he had. It was perfect. 👌

7 months. It’s just some formalities and a party. Don’t get dragged into the wedding industry’s marketing. It is not that difficult.