How long were you engaged?

We got engaged NY Eve 04/05 and married in August 06. 19 months I think. It was that long as we figured out how much we needed to save and how much we could put aside each month.

If we could have done it sooner I'd have liked to, but as it was, we got wed and came out with no debt, in fact we were £200 under budget!

Don't think I could have waited 3 years though.

I would have gone nuts waiting that long to get married, and planning for that long.

We were only engaged for 6 months and for us it was plenty of time.

I saw that ticker too and thought the same thing.

Engaged April 01. Married June 02 - We I wanted a summer wedding and though that 3 months probably wasn't long enough to arrange it so left it another year...in hindsight though, it would have contained the stress to 3 months which would have been a good thing!

16 months.

Engaged Dec 2003, married May 2005 (today is our 4th anniversary).

We wanted a late spring wedding and 4 months didn't seem long enough to organise it, especially with so many guests travelling from overseas.

Blimey, I've never really thought!

We go together in April 2000 and I moved in after 3 dates ? Mr P then proposed in August 2000 and we married in June 2003. We weren't planning a wedding all that time, it did take ages for us to decide where to get married. Plus 3 of my brothers all got engaged at the same time so we kind of took a year each.

Just under 9 months. Got engaged in August, married end of April the folliowing year

We were lucky enough to both have fairly comfortable jobs that we could save enough in that time for the sort of wedding we'd both be happy with. I'm not sure I would have been patient enough to save for an enormous do.

We were engaged for a year but only planned the wedding in the last 7 months of this. We were going to wait a couple of years before marrying because we'd only been dating for a year but I think Mr M got bored of me talking weddings so we brought it forward. ?

A long engagement would have driven me crazy!!

6 weeks.

Decided in the July & married the next month August 30th.

We were engaged for 2 years, but more by chance than design - we certainly didn't need that long to plan the wedding ?

But we got engaged in December, and we then decided we wanted a december wedding. So initially we went for the next December, but my best friend was going to be away for the whole month, and she was going to be my bridesmaid, so we put it off until the following december. We had been together for 6 years, living together for 2 by the time we got engaged, and it really didn't make that much difference ?

We got engaged in Oct 2001 and got married Sept 2003, when we got engaged we were living in Surrey and we didnt even set a date as we hadnt really thought about it, anyway we moved to Wales in April 2002 and then started talking about wedding plans, went for a picnic in June 2002 to a fabulous country park where there was a wedding going on in the orangery, we decided that was where we were going to get married. So we officially set a date in July 2002 for Sept 2003.

So engaged for 23 months but only planning a wedding for 14 months.

Erm, just over 10 years - we got engaged five months after meeting and then never really got around to the getting wed bit ?

We got engaged January 03, and married Feb 04, and only really started planning it in the August.

We got engaged in August 2001 and married in April 2003 so 20 months. We had been living together for a couple of years already so there was no great rush and we needed time to save up!

Weve been engaged for <counts on fingers> 6 years 2 months and 1 day!

We didnt plan for it to be this long but then again, were in no rush. It wont change the way we feel about each other.

Due to family issues, we cant get married here so were going to have a Vegas wedding. Not what I imagined as a child but in all honesty, if it was as simple as getting a letter through the post and signing it and that was it, I would do it that way. Were not bothered about a wedding at all.

We got engaged in April 2006, married November 2008 but we only really started the planning in September 2007 although we'd picked the date quite early on to fit around my work at the time. We could've got married sooner as my work commitments fell through but it would've been too much of a rush.

We got engaged 14th February 2003 and got married 30 April 2005. So 2 years and 2ish months

We weren't intending for it to be that long but we knew absolutely where we wanted to get married and the entire of 2004 was booked up!

We got engaged last February and are getting married in August so it will be 18 months. I wouldn't want to wait any longer than that, I've found planning a wedding incredibly dull.

Same here. Except we bought the wedding forward because we thought my Gran might not make it another year. As it is, we celebrate our 5 year anniversary next week and she's still with us. Oh, and we'd been together 5 years by the time we got engaged, and living togeethe for 4. So not same here at all really. ?

We met in the March 2001, got engaged in November 2001, but didn't get married until October 2004. We wanted to wait until we got our own place before getting married. We also wanted to save up a little bit as well.

We got engaged about 18 months before the wedding. He wanted to do it earlier but I know a lot of people who just got engaged and then did nothing else ? - I said I only wanted to do it once we were able to plan/pay for a wedding. So that's what we did.

Got engaged on Christmas Day 2001 and we were married in July 2003. On 1st June we will have been together for 15 years - eek!

We were engaged for 2 years but didn't start planning the wedding until 9 months prior. We weren't in a rush and anyway I got pregnant 2 months after getting engaged and she was 13m when we got married.

My cousin booked her wedding the week she got engaged for 3 years later. I remember at the time thinking I couldn't do that. Its not so much how long you're engaged for I think, but how far in advance you book the wedding.

We got engaged April 03, and married May 04. Somehow managed to get upduft NY 03/04 but we didn't change any wedding plans (apart from size of dress) and son 1 was born 30th Sept.

Met Dec 97, decided to get married Mar 98. we ordered my ring in june 98, set date in sept 98.

We wanted to get married 99 but there was no good date for the venue we wanted so we waited til sept 00. gave us a chance to save up as well.

so officially, 2 years, in reality 2.5 yrs. I was sick of weddings by that point, there's no way I could have coped with longer.

We got engaged 31.12.08 and will be getting married October 2010 so will have been engaged just under 2 years, but i can say we are getting married next year?

I would love to get married sooner but we need to save some money really.

I havnt started organising anything yet though really, just got the venue booked.

Id like to think i could compfortably do all the planning in the 6-8 months before so that my life dosnt get taken over by weddings!!

I've told the OH I need a good year's notice so I can lose some weight ?

We've talked about it a lot and we both know that the point we get engaged is the point we start booking things IYSWIM. Neither of us want a long engagement (except me for the weight thing obviously).

Met in November 2001, engaged July 2002, married September 2004. It took us that time to save up and pay for the wedding, we didn't get any help from either family so it was a bit of a struggle. But we married debt free. 5 years this year we've been married. 5 years! Time has flown by!

We got engaged 29th Feb 2004 and married in May 2005 so almost 15 months, mainly because I quite liked the idea of getting married close to my birthday so we can celebrate both together and there was no way we could have organised it in less than 3 months.

I would never have come across hitched if we'd got married sooner though - the only reason I started looking at wedding planning type websites was because I got run over in September 2004 so was off work and pretty immobile for 3 months. I was still on crutches when I went to look at wedding dresses in the November which was challenging for all concerned!

So had I a) been more organised or b) looked where I was going I would never have known about money poems, mooncups, extreme sports versions of the pencil test, or enjoyed many an hour reading debates about washing towels and bedding (I'm skankier than average but wash my bras surprisingly often), or for that matter discovered Bad Science.

We got engaged 2 years after getting together which was October 04. I wanted a summer wedding (being a teacher I wanted to get married, have a honeymoon and not be rushing back into school) so we decided to wait for summer 06 so that Joe would have finished his evening uni courses plus we were going to pay for a lot of it ourselves so didn't think that the 10 months was enough.

So we were engaged for 22 months in the end, marrying August 2006.

12 weeks. Mr K proposed mid April 06 and we got married in early July. Everything was organised fine in that time, but it was a very small wedding on a weekday.

We got engaged Sep 2007. My sister had got engaged the year before and married in August 2007, so my H didn't want to steal her thunder by proposing to me too (I agreed that this was probably best as we had been together for 10 years at this point, so what was the hurry?). We decided we wanted an autumn wedding, and didn't think that we could realistically afford or organise a wedding in 6 weeks, so we got married in October 2008. We didn't really get into the full planning side of things until Feb 2008 when we found our venue, so although we were engaged for 13 months, we were planning (and I use that term lightly as I don't see what the fuss is all about - I had no stress at all) for about 8 months

Engaged end of Feb 2004. Married 4th June 2005. So, just over 15 months.

Engaged Sept 05, married Aug 06. For the first month of being engaged I did nothing but think how the hell do I plan this and how much do we have to spend?

Ours was a budget wedding and all we could afford, and I think it was for us the right amount of time. Having said that towards the end I did think god can this planning be over!

I always thought I would like a nice long engagement, but tbh I think 2 years of people asking me about weddings would have finished me off (personal thing not judging anyone).

We were together just over 2 years when we got engaged but I knew him as a friend for years before that.