How long did you date before getting engaged?

happy2016 · September 2014

sarawifenow · September 2014

FI and I dated for about 2 years when we got engaged.

birdybride2014 · September 2014

FH proposed on our two year anniversary.

ashley8918 · September 2014

Just over 3 years.

littlemushroom · September 2014

We had been dating for 9 months when he proposed. We are in our 30s, and he had moved in a bit before the 8 month mark.

ETA: I told my parents I was going to marry my (now) DH after our second date.

falsara · September 2014

We were dating for almost exactly a year. We were friends though for almost two years before that. I found out from his buddies though that he was looking at engagement rings about 6 months into us dating.

Cookie Pusher · September 2014

Just over 10 years.

goldchocobo.defunct635829490514903826 · September 2014

8 years. Our 9 year anniversary is in 2 days.

kat1114 · September 2014

Almost 4 years

cupcait927 · September 2014

We had been dating for a year and a half. He took me to look at engagement rings around the 9 month mark, about the same time we officially moved in together.

ETA - FI was telling my friends and his sister that he knew he wanted to marry me 2 months into dating.

sarahufl · September 2014

Almost 3 years.

misshart00 · September 2014

About 9 months.

SmileDamnit · September 2014

Knew we were going to get married after the first date, moved into gather at 6 months, engaged at just over a year, married about 6 months later, and baby Bean will arrive 9 months after that.

So, met in 2012, engaged in 2013, married in 2014 and baby in 2015! We're not ones to waste time, obviously

. Being in our mid & late-30s has it's perks…years of experience makes it easy to know what you want (and DON'T want) quite clearly, which helps speed up the timeline!

*eta - my last serious relationship before H lasted 8 years and I never once thought we would get married.

hellosweetie1015 · September 2014

We met in March '13, got super serious in June, started "for-real" talking marriage in March, and got "officially engaged" in May. So... 14 months? 12-14 months.

Maggie0829 · September 2014

Just over 8 years.

lyndausvi · September 2014

4 days after we got married he said he was going to marry me.

2 months after we met his cousin flew down a diamond from his mom.

3 months after we met he told me on a smelly loading dock at work that he asked off of work in July (this was Feb) to ask for me dad's blessing for us to be married. We were OOT from them and he wanted to met the first. [insert eye-roll]

In the mean time I was designing my own ring. He refused to be "engaged" until he met my parents. [again, insert eye-roll]. I started wearing the ring the day after he met my parents (7-8 months after we met).

Since there was never a real proposal it's hard to say exactly when. I say almost immediately we knew we were going to be married and were living like an engage couple without having an actual proposal.

JCbride2015 · September 2014

About nine years.

lightningsnow · September 2014

Not engaged yet but we've been together over 5 years. A proposal may happen in a couple of years. We have known that we want to get married since the first year though.

smalfrie19 · September 2014

6 months.

Jells2dot0 · September 2014

4.5 years

larrygaga · September 2014

10 years!!! We started officially dating when I was 12 and he was 14. On our first date we ate mashed potatoes together in the cafeteria.

hellosweetie1015 · September 2014

larrygaga said:

10 years!!! We started officially dating when I was 12 and he was 14. On our first date we ate mashed potatoes together in the cafeteria.

This is kind of adorable.

wandajune6 · September 2014

7 months.

The joys of being older (mid/late 30's)- we know what we want!

larrygaga · September 2014

CaitTDid23 said:

larrygaga said:

10 years!!! We started officially dating when I was 12 and he was 14. On our first date we ate mashed potatoes together in the cafeteria.

This is kind of adorable.

I know right?

chibiyui · September 2014

Almost a year.

missdelilah · September 2014

@larrygaga: You guys are so cute!

FI and I dated for about 2 years.

climbingsingle · September 2014

5 months.

luckya23 · September 2014

He went shopping the day after our 1 year anniversary, because apparently he had always had it in his head that's when it was safe or appropriate or whatever. I got my ring and told everyone almost 2 months later.

doeydo · September 2014

About three and a half years and the engagement was planned to be for two years, but that is being postponed.

ShellD13 · September 2014

H proposed before we'd even met in person...again on our second date...and finally (for real) after we'd been dating for about 2 years. We got married in June the day after our 3 year anniversary.

We met on line but we were living in different states. So we talked on the phone (A LOT) for about a month before we could get our schedules synced up for him to drive down for our first date. During one of those conversations we got to talking about family - holidays/events/weddings and I made a comment that I loved my sisters but I'd planned too many big weddings - when the time was right for me I wanted small/simple/intimate - he responded to my description with "Will you marry me?" I laughed it off... On our second date, he drove down and we ended up working at a soup kitchen together. I'd forgotten I'd volunteered to serve with my bible study group and we'd already planned the second date - he said he was game to join us - that's when I knew I'd marry him ;-) Afterwards, I'd made dinner and dessert at my house and after a bite of dessert he again asked me to marry him...I laughed it off again - Cheesecake does not a proposal make. About a year after we met, I moved to his state a year later he proposed with ring in hand ;-) He still teases me that I turned him down flat 2 times...

NowIamMrsKlein · September 2014

Just under 2 years.

We started seriously talking about marriage about 6 months in when he got notice that he was being transferred at work to somewhere I couldn't 'follow' him (middle of no where, remote northern Canada, no jobs or opportunities for me). When we both realised that we were in this for the long haul and could overcome any obstacles, He signed a year contract and we braved through it. After a year of being up there he went job searching and we went ring shopping. He moved to a new place, I came with him this time and 5 months later we were engaged.

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