So, from Mrs Magic's thread, how long before first meeting and marrying?

10.5 years.

Anything less seems indecently hasty.

I didn't want her thinking I was easy.

I started new job and for some unknown reason the office star (good looking, a good laugh, liked by everyone, v clever, speeding his way up the corporate ladder, well respected by management) took a shine to me, the new timid HR Administrator and thankfully decided to 'pursue' me: Aug 99

First date: 8 Oct 99

He persuaded me he wasn't just dating me for a bet or to gain access to the personnel files, and so we 'came out' to work colleagues: 11 Dec 99

Moved in together: April 2000

Engaged: April 01

Married: 15 June 02

so, in answer to the original question, under 3 years.

H and I met when I was about 19 or so so about 14 years approx. Were not even friends for about another 8 years after that. Got together in Sept 2002, engaged in April 2003, pregnant by Dec 2003 and married in July 2005.

We met 1st Dec 2001

Agreed we would get married at some point in the future and he bought me an eternity ring 1st Dec 2002

Got engaged (with a bracelet as I would let him buy me another ring ?) 1st Dec 2003

Got married 22nd May 2004 (we would have liked it to be 1st Dec 2004 but didn't want to wait a whole year and my health is better in spring/summer)

So 3 years, 5 months. ?

Met December 1999 (drunken snog NYD 2000)

Got together end May 2000 (I knew I was going to marry him the instant we had our first "more than friends" cuddle)

Moved in together December 2000 (mooted end June 2000)

Engaged August 2001 (he held off that long for propriety....)

Married June 2003 (would have been sooner but we wanted a summer wedding in London!)

So 3.5 years I think. Seems quicker and certainly our friends thought it was a whirlwind!

Met early September 2005, officially got together October 2005, engaged April 2006 and married November 2008 so 3 years 2 months and a few days. It would've been sooner I think but work stuff got in the way.

5 years and 3 months from first date to wedding day.

Met in 1995, he was then my best friends boyfriend

they split up 2-3 years later

bumped into him again on 14th July 2001 (it was the day after my birthday party so I remember the date well), 1st date the following week, on the 19th (exactly a week after my birthday)

moved in with him sometime in 2003

got engaged in April 04 (I think) but without any serious consideration to actually getting married

Decided to set a date in December 05

married in Jan 07

10 years to the day - another twee one! This will be our 6th year married. 16 years.... Wow that sounds scary.

that's really similar to me and my H.

We met in Sept 1997 when I moved into halls - he was my flat mate. Lived together (with others) at uni for 3 years, went on our first date on 1st Nov 2001 and married on the same day 2008.

8 years, 5 months and 2 days!

We met on 4th July 1998, got engaged on 9th April 2005 and got married on 6th December 2006

8 years 2 months and 13 days!

We met on 24th June 2000, started going out with each other on 19th July 2000, got engaged on 21st November 2002 and got married on 6th September 2008.

We would have got married sooner, but I was 15 when we met, he had just turned 16. He was 18 when we got engaged, I was 18 the following month and by the time we got married he was 24 and I was 23.

We met in 1968 (can't remember the exact date we met but started going out on 15th November 1968) and got married on 3rd May 2005 so 37 years between meeting and getting married. Lots of time passed, marriage to other people and lots of heartache in the intervening time but we are happy together now.?

3 years and 7 months from meeting to getting married

We got married almost 9 years after meeting, having got together a year after we first met.

First met Jan 98, First date Jan 99, Engaged May 03, Moved in together Dec 04, married Dec 06 ?

5 years: we met at my flat warming party, I moved in 3 months later, got engaged after 3 years, married after another 2.

About 5 years, weren't together for the first 4 though. Met in 2002, got together 2006, engaged 2 months later and married 2007.

Sept 94 - met at university but were just friends
Nov 01 - started going out
Dec 05 - got married

So either 4 or 11 years depending on your POV.

14 years, 3 months, two kids, 1 nervous breakdown ?. We have been together 19 years this year. Over half our lives ?

Met Dec 2003

Got Engaged May 2004

Married Nov 2005

So just short of 2 years from first meeting to getting wed.

?

33 months. we got engaged v quickly though. we started talking about it about 2 months after we met ?

Met Sept 97, he moved into my student house in Jan 98, moved in together officially Nov 99 (after I left Uni in France), engaged Dec 2001, married June 2003. So 5 ½ years. We met when I was 19, so we were in no hurry.

About 8 years, we were a couple for the last year and 8 months of that time.

We met July 02, got engaged December 03 and got married July 05, so 3 years for us.

We got together in 1995 and got married in 2003, so 8 years.

We met at school in roughly 2004, was february 2007 when we got together and getting married august 2012.

So it was three years between meeting and getting together and we will have been together five and a half years when we marry. All in all a total of eight years from meeting to marrying!

Met: 25th May 2000

Got together: 30th November 2000

Got engaged: 30th November 2004

Got married: 22nd April 2006

So, a month short of 6 years between first meeting and getting married.

We met 04-08-06 in turkey when i went out there with a friend to celebrate my 18th, engaged 27-09-08, marry 08-09-10 in Turkey, so just over 4 years

Wow, complicated question. We first met at school, so technically, 11 years. However, we didn't get together until 22 months before we tied the knot, then we moved pretty quickly - engaged after 6 months, bought first house after 12 months, married after 22 months, pregnant 3 months later and baby born a week after first wedding anniversary!

Met June 1999, got together May 2000, got engaged May 2004 and wed January 2006. We've been together 9 years. How time flies when you're having fun.

Met January 2000 geekily through the county youth orchestra

Got together April 2000 when one of my friends couldn't keep her mouth shut when drunk and told him I fancied him

Engaged December 2001 while we were at uni at different ends of the country

Married November 2005 so coming up on our 4th wedding anniversary, where has the time gone?

We met in November 1992, and got married in September 2003.