When did you get engaged?

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Me and DP have been together for 4 weeks. We have known each other for 10 years and I have loved him since the first time I ever saw him. We are both in our twenties and have been talking about marriage which I know people might think is ridiculous after only being in an "offical" relationship for a month.
Just curious as to how long people were with their DPs before they got engaged?

We agreed to get married after 3 months, we didn’t announce our engagement until we were actively planning our wedding and had a date set - so we were only publically engaged for 3 months, but got married just over 5 years (and 2 DC) after the initial proposal.

DH and I got engaged 4 weeks after we met for the first time.
Married 7 months after getting engaged.
This year will celebrate silver wedding (25 years)

Got engaged after 19 months. Had known each other 7 years though. Got married after 3 yrs.

DP and I are about to get engaged after nearly 6 years together, 5 living together. A lot has happened in that time, both of us growing and changing (most of our twenties). This is the right time for us. After 4 weeks you’re still completely in limerance, no matter how long you’ve know each other. You need to see each other underneath pressure to really know each other’s character.

Under pressure*

Met at 18, both knew right away, and decided to marry. Officially engaged at 19, married by 20, as of this September we will be married 20 years.

Engaged 6mths after meeting but had talked about being committed/looking for a house together after 4mths.
Married after 2 yrs together. Have been together for 25 years this year.

About 3 years & another two years until we got married. I was 19 when we met & we were at Uni, or maybe it have been sooner.

Firs time around was engaged after 10 years and married 2 years later. Divorced 3 years after that.

Met DP shortly after break up, got engaged after 14 months and married after 23 months. Had a baby and bought/ renovated a house inbetween.

Been a busy few years! Looking forward to a rest

So interesting! @Lunde your story sounds amazing.
Met age 22, lived together from age 23, engaged after 7 years, married after 8. Coming up to 16 years together. Was very happy being ‘partners’ for a long time then something shifted. Have known he was the one since first date though.

Engagement 1 fiancé 1 - 6 months. We were 17 and our parents really didn't approve. Pressure from them led to this engagement breaking up.

Emgagement 2 fiancé 1 2 years still pressure from parents plus I was made redundant from my job and had to move a good distance away and that ended.

I honestly think if our parents hadn't been SO against us being serious about each other we'd still be together.

Engagement 3 to fiancé 2 2.5 years, but no proposal, he was army, we'd done the long distance thing already earlier in the relationship and I didn't want to do it again, neither did he so when he got posted other end of country he came in that night with the letter and said "well either we get married or split up". Divorced now but due to his cheating.

Sorry meant to say I agree with pp 4 weeks, even if you've known each other for years before is not wise. Knowing someone as a friend and knowing them in a relationship are very different.

Plus biochemically the first year is very much honeymoon period. I would always advise wait at least a year.

I think it takes 5 years to truly know someone. The first year, is lust

After 6 months; married 6 months later.

We knew within the first few dates though. We celebrate our 20th wedding anniversary next month.

Best friends since school.
Got together after 18 years. Long distance relationship.
I quit my police career and we moved in together after 8 months.
Engaged at 2.5 years.
Married at 3.5 years.

They'll always be success stories from people who got engaged very quickly because they'd still have had successful marriages even if they had waited 10 years for the engagement.

Known each other for two years , engaged after three months, married eighteen months after our first date, together almost twenty two years.

6 weeks here
We had known each other well for a year though
Been married 14 years and have four children, still very happy together

Met DH at 17, had daughter at 19, deceided to get married so just went and booked it, married when DD was 3 months old. Been together 31 years, married for 29.

6 months in when I was 3 months pregnant

On our third anniversary. I was 22 and he was 21 - we met at uni and were about to graduate. We got married 3 years later in 2010.

Engaged 6 months after meeting, married 6 months after that. Celebrating our 11th anniversary this summer.

Live together first before making any more decisions!

Met my now DH through online dating - he was my first and only online date.
Moved in together after 6 weeks (neither of us have DC), engaged after 4.5 months and married a year later. We were older though (I was 35, he was 39) so confident we knew what we were doing!
We are now 5 years on and it was definitely the right thing.

Five months. But had known him for a year. We discussed marriage after a few weeks, like you. We’ve now been married 25 years.