My friends and I recently had a discussion on the appropriate time for a relationship to move into an engagement and an engagement into marriage. I believe it depends on the couple, they disagreed. So my question is: How long were you and your SO together before you became engaged? How long were you engaged before you got married? Do you think there's a set amount time that a couple should have before progressing to each level?
For myself we were together for 10 months and will be engaged for 13 months when we get married. As noted above, to each their own in my opinion.
Note: The discussion was not in reference to my engagement as my friends think my FI and I are perfect together, it was just a discussion in general that I thought I'd put on here.