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).

Seven weeks.

I was pregnant, we always planned to get married around three years together. We didn't want to delay TTC due to my age (31 at the time) and some health issues, so decided to start trying and make sure we got married before a baby was born.

8months

@MrsElijahMikaelson1

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

This was how we felt too tbh, each to their own but personally I only wanted to get engaged if it meant 'we want to get married', as in we were actually ready for and wanting to get married. Rather than it being its own separate stage. So we didn't see any point in waiting. Got engaged on a Sunday, rang up the register office on the Monday, booked a date 7wk later.

Just over 18 months - got engaged really quickly but then had DS so had to rearrange wedding as our original date was the week he was due.

Seven months. Didn't see any point in a long engagement as we really wanted to be married. Made the arrangements we could in that time. Churches will have plenty of dates to choose from...

3 weeks we just decided on a whim bit of a shock for my parents we are still married 40 years later.

@bakingdemon We will need a registrar because neither of us are religious so it won't be a church wedding.

8 years
Not in a hurry

3 years, it would have been 20 months but we had to reschedule 4 times due to covid

14 months between engagement and marriage

@SimonJT Belfast - had no idea there was a difference between NI and England!

2 years

Got together mid April 2013,engaged end of May 2013, married in the August that year. All in we had been together 4 months when we got married.

Married 6 months after meeting, he proposed after 3 months. I hate fuss, we had about 25 guests. We were in our early 30s, married 20 years now.

Most people I know had 2 year engagements, my DH is just very very decisive (house purchases, cars, children’s names, choice of schools, investments all fast decisions ) luckily it’s worked out so far!

About a year. We were lucky and didn’t have to pay for our own wedding - would have been longer if we had been footing the bill.

@Startrek90 Blimey! Are you sure you knew eachother?!!

@User629202 Ah nice. Yes obviously as it's our second marriage for both of us we will be paying for it ourselves so it will have to be on a budget!
At least I can avoid my dad walking me down the aisle (yuck!!) and invite who we like

Nine weeks.

(Was pregnant 😂)

Pretty much almost a year, though I would of married him the day he proposed if I could of

8 months.

@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?

Hmm, there seem to be a lot of threads posted by women who were pretty confident they would get married and so many years and X number of kids later, he just doesn't seem interested...

3 years as we were both studying and moving around for our studies/ beginning of careers.

So far 32 years.

We had two weddings - one after 3.5 months for immigration reasons and then our celebration wedding after 15 months.

6 weeks from the day we met to our wedding day