How many times have you been engaged?

We didn't have time to get engaged to anyone else as we were 15 and 16 when we got engaged to each other! That was 14 years ago! I have still got my original 'engagement' ring but has been upgraded since then ;-)

Third times lucky for me. When I was 19/20 then for a couple of years in my mid-late 20s but that was an unofficial one as he was a mature* student and we wanted to wait until he graduated (*technically, he was actually the most immature man you could hope to meet) and then four months after we split I met OH. That was six years ago andI haveno doubts whatsoever.

First time for both of us. I'm loving these stories though.

First time for both of us and according to OH I am the first girl he has ever loved. We will have been together 5 years in June one week after our birthdays.

Loving the stories, I never knew there were so many teenage engagements, probably cos I went to a girls school and we didn't even see any boys our own age till we were 16!

I'm ashamed to say third time for me.

I got engaged to my 1st "proper" boyfriend when I was 19. We were going to get married 2 years later and booked the church, venue and TOG. I cancelled it all when I found out he "thought he had feelings" for my (then) best friend, but stupidly didn't dump him for another 9 months.

Stupidly I then got engaged to my next boyfriend after 3 months as I felt that we should be engaged before we moved in together. We married 9 months later, and it lasted 3 more months. Stupid, stupid, stupid. I wish I had been wiser and not as gullible when I was 21/22.

I sold all 3 rings on Ebay. They only cost £50 each though, so just got a few pennies back!

Luckily I have grown up a bit and was so scared of getting carried away, it was a few years before I even contemplated it myself. We got engaged after being together for over 3 years.

I must admit I gave a huge sigh of relief after we made it to September and over 3 months being married!

First time for both of us. I knew a couple of people who got engaged at school when they were 18 and neither lasted.

I went to a girls school too! It was at our college that it seemed to expand into teenage engagement central. My first BF asked my Dads permission, bless my Dad, not sure how he kept a straight face!

This is first time for me and my OH. We have been together since we are 16, got a house together when we were 19, two dogs when we were 20, and he proposed on my 21st birthday. We will be 22 when we get married, I'd like to think we are very mature for our age, we've never really been interested in usual teenage late night partying, and with our dogs we feel like a little family I think neither of us imagined we would get married at 22, but after 6 years together and 3 years living together it just seem like the next step. It's not so much that we want to get married for the sake of getting married, it's that we want to marry each other
If that makes any sense!

This is my only engagement and marriage. We've been together since D was 17 and I was 18. We got engaged when he was 19 and i was 20, after two years together, and we've been together nearly 6 and a half years now.

D has sort of been engaged before. He gave the girl a ring as a present when they were 15 and she decided it was an engagement ring and told everyone. I think no matter how much he denied it everyone still believed the silly girl, even down to her parents throwing them an 'engagement' party. MiL was really angry about the girl telling everyone they were engaged, and she was paranoid they were going to elope and get married when they turned 16. So much so that when he bought me a ring as a present she sat us both down and told us that there was no way we were engaged. I was baffled because we were only 18 and we'd been together about three months.

Anyway, the girl messed him around a lot and he finally got fed up of her when they were 17 and broke up with her. He's still known among a lot of our old school mates as 'D who was engaged to X.' It really annoys me.

This is my first and only engagement and same for OH.

We met when we were 16 and 17, it took him 9 years to propose and we'll be getting married on our 11 year anniversary.

There was defo a trend of people getting 'engaged' at about 17/18. I don't actually know of any of these couples getting married in the end but I might be mistaken. I knew someone who got engaged to her bf when we were at college, I think she was 17 at the time. I remember pretty much ignoring it because we just knew it wasn't the real thing. Sure enough they split up about a month later for good over nothing really.

We are fairly similar to you. Been together since we were 16 and almost 19, moved in together last July (aged 19 and nearly 22), got the two cats before we even moved in together! He proposed on Christmas Day 2012. We get married 3 days after my 21st birthday and OH will be 23. Been together for four years in September. We are also very mature for our age and have never been interested in the generic (and in my opinion stupid and boring) 'teenage stuff'.

I knew I would marry him the day I met him. I was only 16 but it literally was love at first sight for me. We were officially together within a month of meeting. He had to take some time to get used to me, though!

I'm actually pleased to see some fairly young couples in here. People are acting like I'm a child bride; we'll be 27 and 24. Between us we have three completed degrees and one in progress, a mortgage, a school-aged child, a middle-aged cat and a whole load of student debt. She's considered a bit old by American standards, while just-turned-24 is horrifyingly young here, it seems. It's certainly very young in our field, where most people are married to their work and mid 30s is more common for commitment beyond flatsharing, but I figure if they think we're old and sensible enough to save people's lives, we're old enough to get married.

It's funny how different cultures see ages as so different. I find it really interesting.

I will be 23 when we marry and OH will be nearly 22. We've had quite a few comments saying how young we will be but I'm not bothered at all to be honest. We're waiting until 2015 because the boy wants to be at least 21 when we get married. He originally said 2016 but I really wanted 2014 as that would be the year after I graduated and it just seemed to be a good year. So we had to compromise at 2015 so I'm not complaining

we have been together 3 and a half years, had our own dog from a puppy nearly two years ago and are moving into our own place in a couple of weeks when I finish my uni exams. We have lived together for the last two years in my parents home as we couldn't afford anything while I was in uni. We have also been through a lot as boy had an accident and was nearly paralysed which showed me how much I love him and my supporting him showed him how much he loves me too

We are young but that just means we have longer to spend together

I have already commented on this thread but this is very similar to us and the reason I think we are not getting any 'you're too young to get married' because we have been together 7 years now, nearly 8 on wedding day. We knew at aged 15 and 16 when we got together that we would be spending the rest of our lives together so when we got engaged when I was 18, he was 19, no one really made any comments because we had been together 3 years by then and living together at his parents for most of that time. We now have bought a house together and looking forward to being married

First time for both of us - I just actually double checked with him because I realised I never asked and all the teenage engagment stories made me wonder. He looked at me like I'd grown two heads and I think was a bit worried I was about to make some huge announcement about a previous marriage! ?

As for the age thing, I'll be 28 and he'll be 30 when we get married, and we've been together six years (seven when we get married). And we're still getting 'are you sure it's not a bit early / quick?' questions. I think it depends on what's the norm for your particular social group.

I love the stories of couples who met at school - I am jealous that you have already spent years with your OHs wheras I've only been with mine since I was 27 and I'll be 32 when we get married.

I went to a Catholic girls school which meant that that girls were nicknamed "The St Anne's Slags" as they, apparently, were so desperate for attention from boys they jumped into bed with anyone. None that I know of were engaged (couldn't pick one out of their many lovers I guess).

At college, my first BF said "I'm going to be 18 next month, lets get married". I was already 18. I pulled a face and said no and he didn't ask again. We broke up 2 years later.

So, my first engagement and OHs first relationship at all.

I have had ten proposals of marriage.

In my defence, I didn't accept them all, and I must have known some very impulsive young men in my youth.

I love this.

Does not surprise me though - you're a fitty.

I've been engaged 3 times.

Joined Hitched nearly a year after I was first engaged (tacky Xmas day proposal). I was 19, and thought I was in love.

I cancelled the wedding 2 months before we were due to get married, as I found out he was sh@gging my sister.

Second time, called the wedding off as he just couldn't cut the apron strings. I already had a child, didn't need a man child.

Third time, was my H.

I love this ac- you are a bloomin legend.

i have remembered that an ex said that he wanted to marry me because if he diddnt someone else would...we were split up at the time but he couldn't understand why I diddnt take him up on his kind offer.

We may have been ridiculously young and everyone telling us it would never last but I think after 14 years together, 3 beautiful children and having never had a 'break up' in all that time we are lasting!!

Third time lucky!!!!

I married my best friend (my son's dad) at 19. Nine months after getting wed we had a really serious chat and realised it was possible we weren't ready for marriage and in the long term things might not work out.

After him I was desperate to put things right. Got engaged during a 'good period' but really he was a nutter It took a lot of guts but I called off the wedding. And the house purchase, and the holiday etc. Eventually I broke free of that awful r'ship.

I knew within 3 months I wanted to marry my OH. My life is a fantasy come true with him.

First time for both of us at age 19 in 2011. We have lots of friends who get engaged all the time, to split up a couple of weeks later or never get married, so I definitely think there's a trend! For us, the intention has always to be married, as it should be with an engagement ? but had to wait until I finished uni so we could save ?. OH's ex is one of these that has been engaged 5 times at age 18 and not been married once, but thankfully my OH didn't propose to her!

This is both our first although my EX told me he was going to propose 6 years ago but said he was going to ask my dads permission but he didn't get round to it and we grew apart.

Interesting to read

Rejected one proposal at 18 that ended, understandably, the relationship. Fell into a ridiculous relationship at 19 with a much older fella and got engaged at 21 then married at 24. By the time I'd 'grown up' at 26 and gone through a string of promotions at work(that ex hated) I d had enough and left.

This time I knew within 3 months that OH was the absolute one, and he proposed 3 months after our baby was born

How come l have only had one?!

We have both been engaged only once to each other. I was winding Mr Erin up last week that l had been engaged and married before -all lies! You would have thought over the past 8 years l would have mentioned it before.

You're not as fit?

Yep. That is it!

I managed 3 in as many months in the summer break between my first and second year at uni. One from an ex and another from people I wasn't even seeing. I said to him "We haven't even gone out!" and he said "Oh alright," as if I was splitting hairs, "Will you go out with me?"

I'd never be that age again

I was engaged age 20 to a man I met while living in Spain. I suppose realistically it was never going to work, but we even stayed together for a year or so after I returned to the UK aged 21 before splitting when we realised that he wouldn't move to the UK for a couple of years while I went to uni.

Engaged aged 26 to a man I married at age 28. Was divorced aged 30.

Then engaged aged 36 to OH who I married at 38. This time for keeps, definitely 3rd time lucky!

This is my first engagement been with my mr since I was 19 and he was 18. We've been together 7years now and got engaged last year.

We'll both be 27 when we marry although my 28th birthday will be just weeks away.... I think we now at the perfect time in our lives to be making this step. I can't wait so very happy.

My first engagement when we were only 18! Got together at 15 when OH Was already engaged when he was aged 14 haha! X