How Long Before You Tied The Knot?

[efish1042]

As a 19 yo in college, I'm not exactly ready to go bounding down the aisle, although I would be not be upset if my strange dream (link here: https://members.lovingfromadistance....Proposal-Dream ) came true and I had to marry him tomorrow.
I'm just wondering, out of pure curiosity, how long you waited to tie the knot/get engaged and why? I say tie the knot/get engaged because I know some of you are engaged for years so it sort of counts, while many simply get the wedding over with quickly.
So, how long and why did it take that long/short?

[lucybelle]

We planned to get married about 3 years in. We are getting married about 4 years in. No real engagement period. Oh and weve lived together for 2 years.

Don't get married at 19!!!!

[milaya]

We dated for 1 year and 2 weeks before getting married.
It was not the ideal and at first we actually talked about dating for about 3-5 years before tying the knot, but due to some circumstances, like pressure from his work company (who also gave us some empty financial promises) and some things concerning my student visa, we decided to take the step. Though to be honest, it was not because we felt that "one year" was the optimal dating time, but we made a decision based on certain aspects.

[TwoThree]

We've known each other for six years and dated for a little less than four years before getting married. We got engaged a little over a year prior to marrying.

[Xanahtas]

We waited about 1 year and 2 weeks before we got engaged - and we'll be marrying at exactly 3 years. We waited to get married because im not 18 until next year

[MattDavies86]

We're happy to get married approx Nov 2014 to be honest, all this going well still and happy in love then we're going to go for it, Marry and close the distance, we both only want to get married one time in our life so we will make sure we are both 100% happy and ready for it

[lyonsgirl]

We got engaged over a year and a half "in" to our relationship. We'll be getting married just before the 3 year mark.

[ChibiFelicia]

we dated about 3 years before getting married. We didn't really have an engagement period (or a very short one anyway approx 3 months). Three years doesnt seem that long to me to be honest. We got married because we were both ready to. Im in my late twenties and him in mid thirties so we're a little older. We've each made our mistakes etc and know what we want in a relationship, i personally dont think getting married in your late teens is a good idea. You havent had time to make those needed mistakes. Im glad i didnt marry the guy i was with at 18 and i was with him for 7 years. People change. I changed.

[Bluejay Belle]

I was engaged to a now-ex after dating for only 5 months (and knowing each other for a grand total of 6), though we wouldn't have gotten married until we'd been together 2.5-3 years for religious reasons. I called it off before getting married or making wedding arrangements (outside my head lol) - I don't regret it in the least. Others may differ, but I do not think that time frame was nearly enough for us to decide to spend the rest of our lives together. Religion was a big push during the whole relationship and I was still figuring out what I believed and it didn't quite line up...besides that, I doubt we would have been compatible long-term (kids/what was expected of the wife/etc).

Now...I'm a fan of taking it slower. We shall see what comes.

[Zephii]

We had known each other for 6 years, dating for 2 (well, two years and 2 and a half weeks not to be specific ) when we got engaged and we married just over a year later.

[rach92g]

We have been dating for 5 and a half years. We plan to get engaged within the next year and get married once I am finished with my degree, which will be at least 3 more semesters from now, possibly more. I don't want to have an engagement that lasts more than a year, I believe that is plenty of time to plan things without rushing into it, unless of course someone has a long engagement for religious reasons and that I completely understand, but for me I would just like to be engaged 6 months to a year at the most.

[kiara_silver]

We dated for 3 years, and are engaged now, we wont have a wedding for about 2 years. But we'll see, date hasn' been set yet so it can go up or down.

[13000km]

We got engaged 2.5 years into the relationship and married on our 3rd anniversary. (:

[princessmeg1328]

We got engaged after a year and four months. We got married 11 months later. We were originally going to get married in May 2013 which would've been just under three years. In short, we got married after 2 years and 2 months.

[Karringtyn]

We got married after 2 years and 8 months of being together....