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How long until you got engaged?

165 replies

Roo060720 · 14/12/2020 07:27

So just curious to know as I'm hoping soon I'll be engaged.

how long after your relationships started did you get engaged and are you still happily married?

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4amWitchingHour · 14/12/2020 09:29

Engaged after 3 years, married after 4. Been married 2.5 years now

Sassanacs · 14/12/2020 09:30

Engaged after two, married two years later - 17 years next May. Apart from the usual stress that comes with a house and two lively kids we are still very much in love. I can't imagine being with anyone else.

changingnamesandkeepingsane · 14/12/2020 09:30

Engaged after 9 months, married a year after that, first baby born 9.5 months later.

We've been together nearly 10 years

1990shopefulftm · 14/12/2020 09:31

Engaged at 2.5 years, we ve been married for 3 years and together for 7 altogether.

Santaisironingwrappingpaper · 14/12/2020 09:31

Met Nov 2012
Engaged Jan 2014
Had ds Sept 2014
Married July 2015

GurlwiththeCurl · 14/12/2020 09:33

Engaged after six months, married at thirteen months. Still married after 30 years. Met in our 30s.

merlotormalbec · 14/12/2020 09:36

After 6 years and married after 7. I was 19 when we got together and didn't want to get engaged/married too young

chubbyhotchoc · 14/12/2020 09:38

5 months. He asked me to move in first but I turned him down so think that spurred him on

Aprilx · 14/12/2020 09:44

Engaged after one year, married six months later, now married most 15 years.

ILoveYoga · 14/12/2020 09:44

Well, I suppose things were done differently back in my day

We dated exclusively for months and months before DTD

Dates for 3 years before engaged and married within the year. We wanted to be married. Would have loved a big wedding but no money for that. It was about getting married for us rather than the big party.

We’re married nearly 30 years and 3 DC.

Chanel05 · 14/12/2020 09:46

Got engaged after 6 and a half years, married now almost 2 and a half years.

JustAPassingFashion · 14/12/2020 09:49

Engaged after 1 year, currently been married for 7

PeppermintSoda · 14/12/2020 10:15

Engaged at 6 months, married after a year. Together for 19 years until he died sadly. Would have liked 60 years with him.

Bunglemom · 14/12/2020 10:19

We got engaged after 1 year, married 4 years later and have been together 15 years, married for 10 with 2 DD's and are as happy as ever (we were friends for 5 years prior to getting together!)

penguin23 · 14/12/2020 10:28

Met in 1988 (age 5/6)
Became a couple 2004
Engaged 2006
Baby 2013
Married 2015
Took our time a little bit! Still happily married :)

EvenMoreFuriousVexation · 14/12/2020 10:30

Round 1:
Engaged after 6 months, married at 18 months, split up 3yrs later
Round 2:
Engaged after 4 years, split up 3 months later!

Crownofthorns · 14/12/2020 10:39

Engaged after exactly two years (DH proposed on our two year ‘meeting’ anniversary) and married nine months later. We have now been married for nine years, 10 year wedding anniversary next summer!

LividLaughingLove · 14/12/2020 10:45

Met in April. Engaged in August. Married in October. Baby March 😁

Both previously divorced and getting on a bit. As pp says, when you know, you know.

mindutopia · 14/12/2020 10:51

We got engaged after 2.5 years. We probably would have waited a bit longer, but we needed to get married for immigration reasons so I could move to live with dh (we had been long distance - very long distance, opposite sides of the world - before this). We got married right around 3 years, which felt like the right time, but looking back now we were quite young and I wonder if it seemed too quick for some people. Dh was definitely the first of his friends and siblings/cousins to get married. That was 12 years ago now and we are very happily married, so it was obviously the right decision for us.

luckylavender · 14/12/2020 10:58

Engaged after two weeks. Got married 14 months later. Married 29 years.

ArtemisBean · 14/12/2020 11:01

Moved in together after just over three years, engaged six months later, married a year after that.

ErickBroch · 14/12/2020 11:30

4 years, our wedding is planned for 2022 so will be together 6 years when we get married

ExclamationPerfume · 14/12/2020 11:33

5 months.

Married 3 years later.

Still together after 24 years.

happymummy12345 · 14/12/2020 11:33

I first met my husband end of April 2014, we became a couple 9th may 2014. We decided to start trying for a baby in July 2014, we moved in together in October 2014, I got pregnant in November 2014, we found out I was pregnant 19th December 2014. We got engaged 13th January 2015, and got married 9th April 2015. Baby was due 30th August 2015, was actually born on 5th September 2015.
So we had been together exactly 11 months the day we got married. I know it's very quick, being married and expecting a baby within less than a year of being together, but it worked for us. We had discussed marriage and both agreed it was what we wanted, but we weren't officially engaged. But when we found out I was pregnant we both knew it was important to us to be married before the baby was born, and I didn’t want to be showing if possible, so we made sure we were. It was perfect. Some people might think we only got married because I was pregnant, but that was never the case at all.
I'd just turned 21 when we met, he was 29. I was a student and he worked full time but we still made it work, and couldn't be happier.

Oldbutstillgotit · 14/12/2020 11:37

Engaged after 6 weeks , married nearly 30 years ( second marriage for both of us) . Now retired and enjoying life together - apart from Covid).

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