How long between meeting your DH/DW and proposing then getting married?

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Long time poster but have had to alter my username as left MN for a while and had to re-register.

Just thinking about marriage and wondering how long it was between meeting your spouse (or the start of the relationship if known for years before getting together), then proposing and then the actual marriage? And who proposed?

I'm curious after reading a few relationship/AIBU threads. I'm single so not asking to compare to my own situation.

Would love to hear some romantic stories!

Met in August, started going out in September, he proposed on 1st January and we got married in July (34th anniversary coming up!)

We met and he asked me to marry him the first time about 4 months later but I said no. He asked again about 8 months after that and I said yes. We married 3 months later. Married 4 years before we had dd.

So between meeting and getting married was about 15 months.

3 years after meeting engaged, 7 years after meeting we got married, been married 26 years.

13 months from meeting to proposal and from there it was 3 and a half years before we got married. We've been married 4 years now.

3 years before getting engaged then will be another year and a half before we get married

Got together 8 years ago and DD together and still no proposal :-(

Engaged 7 months after our first date, married 2 years after that.

Proposed after 3 months, married six months later. Three children and 23 years later, I'd do it again in a heartbeat.

He proposed on our first anniversary of getting together, married 5 months later. Similar to Gretchen in that we talked about marriage and made it clear we both wanted it (with each other!) a couple of months in, but we had known each other a couple of years and he moved in with me (no real commitment on either side) within a few weeks of getting together. That was 10 years ago and we have 3 children, still happy.

Together one year got engaged, engaged one year got married.

Got engaged after 3 years and we married 10 months later! I love being married 😀

Met at 17, engaged at 23, married a year later. 26 and 30 when we had our two DC.

Been together 20 years now.

Known each other 10 years, together 3.5. Not married or engaged. No intention. But Im commenting cus I think that its romantic still. Ive always said that the romance for me is that either of us have no obligations to the other, no ties, so every day we are choosing to be together. Because I am sure a lot of people do sray together because they feel trapped by commitments, marriage, house, etc. We dont have kids so there is no motive to override this sentiment.

Met, bought a house, got married, got pregnant all within 13months

6 years later and I still feel like I'm the luckiest girl alive

Been together 26 years, no marriage, unnecessary

We met in July 2015 he proposed August 2016 and we married April 2018 ❤️

Correction Married April 2017

@dirtybadger that's a lovely point of view

Got engaged after 4.5 months and married exactly a year later.
4th anniversary this week. I was 35, he was 39 though. Met online!

DH proposed after 6 weeks, married 14 weeks later. Been married, erm, 380 weeks now!

Met as children
Got together as teenagers
Got married 10 years later.
Happily married for 20 years.

Met in late October
Engaged ( he proposed ) in December )
Married the following June
First baby was born the following April
Nearly 24 years married now

Me and dh met at 16, got together at 22, then got engaged i.e. decided we would marry at some point, about 5 years later. Then, (because we didn't want to rush into anything ) got round to getting married about 5 years after that. That was 6 years ago. We are not romantic people really. We had no wedding, just a teeny tiny ceremony with just us. If I hadn't been pregnant with dc1 I doubt we'd have gotten around to it tbh. We will always be together, we both know that. Regardless of our problems I can't imagine ever that either of us would leave the other.

We got together in November 2011.
We moved in together in June 2014.
We got engaged in October 2015.
We got married in November 2016.

We met in 1989, started seeing each other in 1991.

He proposed in 2017. We have got the licence but not got round to planning anything yet. We don't want to rush into it

We have four kids, a great life and are perfectly happy. We are basically getting married for inheritance tax reasons. However when we have told people we are getting married quite a few have been worried that one if us was terminal or something.

Seriously though, family and friends are majorly over invested in this wedding. It stresses me out even thinking about it.