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!

Sorry OP, that's not really very romantic.

we met in 2008, travelled lots and and bought a house. we came to a mutual decision to marry in the summer of 2015 after 8 years together. he wanted to do a proper proposal though, so i waited for a few months and he actually did it christmas 2015. shortly after found out i was pregnant with DD, so started planning once she was 3 months old. we married 2 months ago, 2 weeks after our 10th anniversary, I absolutely love being married, finally! we always knew we’d marry,we just have a very laid back timescale!

Living together after a month, engaged after 6, married at 2 years. We celebrate our 14th anniversary this year and our 12th wedding anniversary.

Engaged after 14 months then married another 15 months after that. Been married 14.5 years now

Met in October
Engaged New Years Eve
Married in May
Still married 31 years later

Got together 1991, moved in together 1994, talked about getting married for the first time in 2003 (with positive pregnancy test in hand), got married 5 weeks later, the day after my 12 week scan.

Sorry, no proposal or romantic story, but they are seriously overrated and unimportant in the grand scheme of things.

Engaged after 6 weeks. Married 3 months later. Still happy 22 years down the line.

We did it all the supposedly wrong way round. Baby after 3 years together. Married 2 years after. He didn’t propose. W had a conversation, decided we wanted to get married and had a small (but very beautiful!) registry office wedding 3 months later.

we met in May 1986, proposal about 6 weeks later & we married in Sept that same year (within 4 months). First baby Nov 1987, & still together (albeit a blip about year 7, - 31 years later

Met in 1999. Had a FWB type thing for 3 months or so. While our mutual best friends set off on a whirlwind relationship. FWB type thing went off, then on again, then off again for a couple of years. I moved away, had dd and a pretty shitty relationship. Moved back and met my now DH again. Outside a kebab shop after a very drunken night out.

Started a FWB type thing. Or I did. DH says he was starting a meaningful relationship and was deadly serious. I just wanted some no strings fun with someone I knew and liked and trusted. This was July 2006.

He moved in by stealth over the next 12 months. Proposed valentines 2007. We had a long engagement and got married a week and a half ago.

Love the bones of him. He is a knobhead sometimes. He is a lazy fucker with housework. Shit at paperwork. Crap at reading instructions or maps. Doesn't always have common sense. But he works his bollocks off to provide for us. Raised my dd as his own. Paid for everything from dance lessons to ponies and now onto Benefit make up and Adidas trainers. We have ds too now and he isn't treated any different or any better than dd.

Someone shared a video today to fb of us having a smooch at our wedding and it actually made me well up and I am totally unemotional with stuff like that. We have been together properly for 12 year nearly. Known him 18 years. Nearly half my life. Love him completely. Even though he hogs the remote and farts on my clean bedding before I get chance to get in it.

I asked him 16 months after we got together and we were married after having been a couple about 22 months. Worked for us, but equally my best friend married her boyfriend after having been together 11 yrs and lived together for 9.

Met in September, engaged in the following January and married in May. We celebrated our 46th wedding anniversary last Sunday 🙂

Met 2012, had dd 2014 got engaged Dec 2017, no proposal just discussed and decided. Getting married May 19

Met June then proposed in April married the same hearing August so around 14 months .30th wedding anniversary this year

25 years together and still not married

We met in 2003, married in 2009

Met March 2003, moved in together June 2003. Got engaged Dec 2014, married March 2016

Met in 2012. He proposed in 2014, we moved in together in 2015 and got married in 2016

Met in 2009 became friends
Got together in Dec 2011 after a very drunken conversation.
Moved in together and got engaged in April 2013
Got married September 2015
DD born Feb 2016.

He's my best friend and love of my life. I'd wait 100 lifetimes to be with him again.

We got engaged after 2.5 years, though we essentially decided we wanted to get married after about 6 months. So the proposal wasn’t really a surprise (he proposed to me) as we’d planned it for ages, had a ring made together, etc. This was in part due to immigration issues (obviously we loved each other and all that, but we couldn’t live permanently in the same country without getting married or at least not easily). We got married 6 months after we got engaged, which was almost exactly 3 years to the day after we started dating. Been together 10 years now.

We met in Nov 2009. DH proposed in February 2013. We got married September 2013 and DD born Dec 2013. We had planned on getting married in Dec 2013 but I fell pregnant shortly after we got engaged. We felt the right thing for us was to get married before DD was born.

Met when I was still at school. Sort of decided that we wanted to be married, no proposal, just a discussion and a decision to start saving. Married 5 years after we first met. DC1 born another five years on followed by DC 2. Still happy over 35 years later. I might not have a diamond engagement ring, but I do have a diamond of a Dh. 💎

Got together October 2005 engaged July 2009 married 10 months later in May 2010.

Met early 2006, had a short break for around 6 months. Got back together 2007, spoke about engagement but decided to wait. Then fell pregnant and gave birth in 2008 we got engaged after 12 week scan. Split up for a bit in 2009. Got back together and engaged again by 2010. Finally got married 2011. 😃

Went on our first date in may, officially together in around July although were spending a lot of time together before that anyway. He proposed in September, i was pregnant by November. We got married in may the year after and our son was born a week later on our honeymoon!
That was 6 years ago. I had just come out of a veeeery long relationship with someone who could not commit, and I laid all my cards out on the table. He was 7 years older and looking for something serious, and worshipped me, it was definitely a whirlwind but I don't regret a thing!