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[CNOS128]

We got engaged a little more than 1.5 years after we met, and got married about 14 months later. (DH said he had known for a long time before he proposed that he wanted to marry me, but he was waiting for me to come to that conclusion on my own. Also, if he''d had his way, we would have been married 3 months after getting engaged). We''ve been married for about 6 months now.

Meresal - you guys met on my birthday!

 

[kama_s]

Dated 3.5 years before he proposed. Engaged for 1.5 years. We were long distance for the first 1.5 years of dating, he was finishing up university in Montreal and I was finishing up in Toronto. He then graduated and moved in with me in Toronto.

 

[zoebartlett]

We met in late Oct. ''03 and officially became a couple in the beginning of December. We moved in together after 2 years, and we were together for 4 years before we got engaged (I think we got engaged in mid-May of ''07, and our wedding was in July ''0. It''s hard now to think of when everything occurred -- I had to stop and count years/months. I guess after a certain point there''s no "need" to count that stuff anymore. If you can at least remember your anniversary, you''re good.

 

[iheartscience]

Started dating: March 2003
Moved in together: July 2006
Engaged: March 2007
Married: July 2009

I decided I wanted to finish my undergrad before we got married or else we would have only been engaged for a little over a year. (My original wedding date was May 2008.) We started dating when I was 21 and he was 24, so we got married when I was 27 and he was 30. I can''t believe it''ll be our SEVENTH anniversary in March! Crazy!

 

[princessplease]

We were together a year when we got engaged, and when we get married in 7 months, we''ll have been together for 2 years 4 months.
We moved in together after 7 months, and everyone thought we were nuts because it was "so early". I basically told them to stuff it; FI and I did what we wanted, and it worked out beautifully.

 

[Haven]

Started dating: April 15, 2004 (I was 23, he was 34)
Engaged: September 8, 2007 (I was 26, he was 37)
Moved into our first home together: June 1, 2008 (I was 27, he was 3
Married: July 4, 2008 (I was 27, he was 3

Similar to HH, I often forget how long we've been together so I often have to do the math from June of 2004 to the present. I'm actually surprised to realize that we've been together for four and a half years now! It doesn't seem like it's been that long.

ETA: Ha! I miscalculated--it's been five and a half years. Holy cow!

 

[trillionaire]

Met: 8/2000
Started dating: 4/25/03
Engaged: 7/18/09 (5 yrs, 10 months) the math doesn''t work because we broke up for 5 mos in undergrad

Getting married on our 7th anniversary

@ age 28yrs old

 

[jjc]

Met and started "dating": sometime in 1993 (I was 12, he was 14)
Reconnected and became best friends: Fall of 2003
Started dating: February 2008
Engaged: December 15, 2009 (exactly 1 week ago!)
We will be married October 9, 2010 (I will be 29, he will be 31)

 

[noelwr]

we met when I was 23 and he was 29, and started dating exclusively about a week after.
3 months later I moved in with him.
a year later we bought our apartment together and signed a cohabitation contract.
almost 6 years later I asked him to marry me in Feb 2008 (I was 28, he was 34)
we got married this September 2009 (7 years since we met, I am 30 and he is 36)

we never really discussed marriage, but I always knew that I wanted to marry him so when I finally saved up enough to buy him an engagement watch I asked him (and he was planning to ask me 2 months later)

 

[sctsbride09]

Like HH, we also moved in together within a couple months. We both just *knew* we would get married someday. We got engaged at 2 years together, married 6 months later, and recently celebrated our first anniversary.

 

[radiantquest]

Dated for 4 years, discussed getting married, did it. Got the ring 2 months after we married and have been married for 15 months.

Total a little over 5 years.

 

[MakingTheGrade]

Met: Sept 2004
Non-exclusive: Feb 2005
Officially started dating: Sept 2005
Engaged: March 2008
Married: August 2009

 

[kittybean]

Met: May 2006
Started dating: June 2006
Engaged: June 2008
Married: June 2009

(We like June.)

 

[FrekeChild]

Met online: March 2006
Met in person: April 7, 2006
First date/made the relationship official: May 5, 2006
Moved in: December 31, 2006
First looked at rings: February 10, 2007
Engaged: December 19, 2008
To be married: January 9, 2010

So we''ll be together about 3 years and 8 months when we get married.

 

[KatyWI]

We met and became fairly close friends in October-ish of 2003.

Began dating December 6, 2006.

Got engaged Nov. 27th (Thanksgiving!), 2008

Moved in January 1, 2009

Married September 4, 2009.

So, almost two years from dating to engagement, then nine months til we got hitched!

 

[anchor31]

Met: January 3rd 2003
Started dating: August 31st 2003
Engaged: July 14th 2006
Married: August 2nd 2008

We were 17/21 when we met, so we took our time.

 

[Octavia]

We first met In late September, 2005. First date was October 19, 2005. He proposed December 21, 2007 and we were married on October 11, 2009. We''d hoped for the 18th (as close as possible to our 4th dating anniversary) but it worked better to have it a week prior.

 

[sba771]

Met: July 2007
Moved in: August 2007

Bought a dog together: November 2007
Engaged: April 2008
To be Married: January 2011..long engagement since we had to move abroad for 2 years, but it is nice because it has given us a chance to really be just the two of us without outside interference and we have grown together SO much which makes me very happy.

 

[mayachel]

Met in 1995
Started dating in 2005
Bought a house/moved in together in 2007
Engaged Dec. 2008
Will be married Aug. 2010

15 years from meeting to marrying, 5+ years from dating to married, 2 3/4 years engaged till married.

We met through friends when I was in 9th grade and he was in 11th grade. Remained friends for a number of years. Post college and for him, grad school, we were for the first time living near one another again and started getting together more frequently. When we finally started dating, (it was no coincidence that I was seeing him more often!) we had already known one another as acquaintances/friends for 10 years. Once we fell into the concept of dating, we fell pretty hard and fast for one another. We maintained separate apartments for the first 2 years, but were essentially living together between the two places. We rarely spent more than a night or two apart and I think I had a key to his place after a month. We definitely both felt we could trust the other sooner based on our shared history. Our long engagement has a lot to do with when we felt we could schedule the time to throw our wedding, as I''m in grad school now.

Also, it''s true that the relationship deepens over time in ways that are so hard to define. I was ready to be engaged after 1 year, but DF wasn''t. By the time we were buying a house, we knew that was the equivalent commitment for us.

 

[Dandi]

Met: Sometime in January 2000
Began dating: January 28th, 2000
Engaged: February 14th 2005
Married: November 3rd, 2007

So 5 years dating and nearly 3 years (!!) engaged. I was only 17 when we met and he was 24, he was much more ready for a long term committment that I!

We've now been married just over 2 years, and we're even more mad about each other now than we've ever been

 

[LilyKat]

Will be just under 10 months for us, then we're getting married 8 months later this August.

A lot of people do comment that it is a short amount of time (not in a negative way - just expressing surprise). We are 26 (me) and 29 (him), and it is less time than most of our friends.

 

[honey22]

Sheesh, a little part of me always feels the need to justify my realtionship when I share this info, but here goes anyway

Together for 12 years (and 9 days

) before getting engaged.
Engaged just short of 18 months before we got married.

Ok, so I am the most freakin patient woman I know

 

[LilyKat]

Date: 12/26/2009 1:46:15 AM
Author: honey22
Sheesh, a little part of me always feels the need to justify my realtionship when I share this info, but here goes anyway

Together for 12 years (and 9 days

) before getting engaged.

Engaged just short of 18 months before we got married.


Ok, so I am the most freakin patient woman I know

Don''t feel you need to justify! I think it''s wonderful that you had such a long pre-married life. Many peoples'' marriages don''t last as long as you two did before you married. I think any long, successful and happy relationship is something to be proud of!

 

[honey22]

Date: 12/26/2009 3:36:55 AM
Author: LilyKat

Date: 12/26/2009 1:46:15 AM

Author: honey22

Sheesh, a little part of me always feels the need to justify my realtionship when I share this info, but here goes anyway

Together for 12 years (and 9 days

) before getting engaged.


Engaged just short of 18 months before we got married.



Ok, so I am the most freakin patient woman I know

Don''t feel you need to justify! I think it''s wonderful that you had such a long pre-married life. Many peoples'' marriages don''t last as long as you two did before you married. I think any long, successful and happy relationship is something to be proud of!

Awwww thanks Lilykat. It''s funny, I know we are totally rock solid, been through good times and bad times, and I know deep down our relationship is strong and happy, but some women don''t understand how I could wait so long for a proposal, they are just shocked sometimes. As much as I desperately wanted to marry sooner, I honestly wouldn''t change anything for the world. We got married at the most perfect time in our lives. I look back now and realise that it was meant to be this way.

 

[bee*]

We started dating July 1999
Engaged October 2007
Married June 2009.

We met when we were teens so dated throughout college and first jobs.

 

[cnkav]

Met and began dating: Sep 2001
Engaged: April 2002
Married: May 2006

 

[reader]

At same GTG Nov 2002
Met and talked to each other 2/2/2003
Engaged 2/2/2005
Married 2/2/2007

Wow, looking towards third anniversary!

 

[elrohwen]

Met: some time in 2003
Dating: some time in April of 2006 (don't know exact date)
Moved in together: June of 2007
Engaged: June of 2008
Married: September of 2009.

So approximately two years of dating before we were engaged, though we started talking about marriage around the 6 month mark I think. We really wanted to move in together before we took that step and we figured 2 years of dating was the perfect amount. I also wanted to be engaged for at least a year (in order to book wedding things) but not much longer than that. I was 22 and he was 21 when we started dating and both 25 when we married.

 

[katamari]

Started dating: Summer 1999
Cohabiting: Autumn 2006
Engaged: Engaged Autumn 2008
Married: Autumn 2009

Another couple taking the slow road by choice, honey, so don''t feel bad. We started dating in our early 20s, but both knew we wanted to work on our educations and careers with our relationship and felt absolutely no rush whatsoever to marry. I love being married to DH, but was never in a hurry to be here.

 

[NewEnglandLady]

We started dating in 1999 and were engaged and married in 2007. The most growth has come from our relationship in the past several years--those first 5 years or so I was getting my degree, starting my career, etc. and was so focused on my individual growth that the relationship took a back seat. Once that was accomplished I knew I could be in in a place where I was able to put my relationship first I started to consider marriage.

We still celebrate our dating anniversary more than our wedding annivesary which is probably a product of being together for so long. Then again, DH likes to celebrate EVERY anniversary--he still proposes every year on his "proposal" anniversary.