How long was your engagement?

[Iecydda]

...before you were married?

We are now at three years.

We've had to cancel twice due to Covid and now registrars are almost impossible to book, especially as we're limited with dates (I work in education).

13 months

4 months. Got engaged in August, married in December. Lived in a rented flat, no honeymoon, wedding was friends and family helping with food and so forth, had my mum’s wedding dress. Cheap as chips, but meant we didn’t start with any debt, we only had what we could afford, and it was lovely.

Got engaged just before lockdown OP and haven’t organised anything yet due to COVID, will probably my start soon.

3 years. I was studying and we were living in different places.

About eight months, we lived in different parts of the country when we got engaged so we wanted to buy our first home together - as soon as we had the completion date we arranged the wedding - it was very small and informal - five guests and a lunch afterwards - no hassle - married over 30 years.

3 years and I haven't looked at one thing .

We've been together 10 years I forgot to add.

Five years.

Neither of us were in a particular rush to get married and I remember being quite surprised when a friend who had got engaged after I did actually booked her wedding shortly afterwards. We then had to put it back a year when a family member passed away.

I still don't really kind of understand the rush to be married now to be honest. I know MNs opinion on it and understandthat side of it. But if you know you will get married one day and there's nothing you can do to control it, why panic?

What's engagement actually for anyway? We didn't bother. We got married 3 months after deciding to.

Should have been two years, now it's four. Same reason as you. Couldn't have the first wedding, planned again for this summer and then venue shut down. Starting all over again for next summer.

9 months and we had a big wedding however we did not have COVID to deal with. You will get there.

@Moomoo42

Five years.

Neither of us were in a particular rush to get married and I remember being quite surprised when a friend who had got engaged after I did actually booked her wedding shortly afterwards. We then had to put it back a year when a family member passed away.

I still don't really kind of understand the rush to be married now to be honest. I know MNs opinion on it and understandthat side of it. But if you know you will get married one day and there's nothing you can do to control it, why panic?

We rushed to get married because 6 months ago he was told he had 6 months to live. We didn't panic but marriage is important to us and especially to him. We don't have the luxury of time and our wedding that was planned in 5 weeks was as perfect as any wedding could be.

16 years but we never made it down the aisle. Split at 17 years.

18 months.

I'm getting married in September. We got engaged Valentine's Day 2011

20 months - which a lot of people thought was an eternity at the time. But we were also getting a house, saving for the wedding, I was starting my graduate career, and there was a lot of the year that we "couldn't" marry because of DF's work commitments (my dad not Fiancé) - which could just as easily have been DM trying to "keep me in my box".

I have DSiblings and DSibsIL who have been engaged and married since, mostly at least as long as that and some have had to cancel and rearrange not due to COVID. 1 couple were 4 years and another 5...but weddings have happened.

3 months

15 months.

Friends got new next door neighbours - a lovely retired couple with two grownup children living away.
About 18 months after they moved in, they brought round a wedding invitation, having finally decided to 'make it official' after having been engaged for 41 years!

18 months...both have family overseas and wanted them to have the option to save and come if they wished (as they all did!) rather than not being able to afford it.

Six months. We wanted to get married on a certain date so our choices were marry in six months or wait 18 months.

3 months here as well, and during the pandemic. OP, we used a celebrant who our hotel recommended. He was a retired minister. They also had loads of humanist celebrants. Have you looked into that instead of a registrar?

3 months-DH said he’d asked me to marry him, not to get engaged🤣 Managed to get a cancellation

Wow impressed with the 3 monthers! Even before covid a lot of my family/friends getting married could only book a venue a year in advance.

2.5 years

I was 21 when we got engaged and still at uni so did my final year then year 1 of my graduate job training then married

At the time it felt ages but this was the quckest we could do it really

Dong worry about waiting ages i know couples who have been engaged 5+ years and are focusing on other things

However if you want to get married go for it weddings are happening