How Long Before You Tied The Knot?

[Trethsparr]

We were engaged at 6.5 months (we were close distance during that time) and were married a year later (at 1.5 years). We were in our later twenties when we married (my SO was two weeks short of 30).

[SquishyLove]

We got engaged on the day we'd been together for exactly 6 months, and got married after we'd been together 1 year, 5 months, and some change. Just had our 2-year anniversary on November 19th and still stupidly happy together.

[Karlijn92]

We got engaged after 10 months. Our plan is to get married in June 2014.

[dukes2011]

My SO and I have been together a little over 4 years and he wants to propose this year, sometime after I graduate. I don't see us getting married until about a year later, so we'll probably be together about 6 years before tying the knot.

[11MikesGirl21]

He asked me to marry him six months in, so we as a couple just kind of waited around until timing was right. It became right recently so we just got officially engaged and have been together for a little over two years. We'll be getting married in about a year and a half.

Timing caused by my schooling is what has had the biggest impact. We were going to put off the wedding until 2016ish because I had to go to grad school, now that my top grad school has family housing and my backups are all back home we'll be getting married in 2014 after 3.5 years.

[MattDavies86]

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.

I think i would be in the same position as this, though by the time we plan on getting married we would have been together for 2 years and spent over a year of that time together in person, so I don't think it would be so bad, if we get that far which I hope to god we do, then I can see myself being more than happy to marrying her, plus it would make everything easier for her to come and live here and work here (this is the aspect I was referring to at the start)

[kacie]

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

This is us, we're planning to marry 18 months into the relationship, and closing the distnace at the same time. It's a little risky planning the wedding when we have to do visas but all going well it'll be in May 2014

[billyjean]

We dated for 6 days in January 2011 and we confessed our love a month after. He came home a day before my birthday in November when I accepted his proposal. We were finally wed the following year on March 2012. Time flies so fast! A month more to go for our first year anniversary!

[mllebamako]

We got married about 2 years and 10 months into our relationship. But we got engaged really early on, like 6 months, mostly for cultural reasons.

[Oldblighty]

It was about two years after first getting in touch with each other. So on my third visit we got married! Very short notice and informal but that was fine with me. It also meant we could apply for the necessary visa's as I was his spouse. It certainly hasnt been easy being newly weds & being so far apart.....

[somebodysangel_88]

This isn't me but a friend of mine got together with her man on January 6, 2012, engaged May 6, 2012 and married by October 6, 2012! Kinda nuts if you ask me but to each their own I guess... For us, it'll be at least five years or maybe a few more after we started dating that we'll get married as we have no date yet!

[Louise_B]

I'e known my SO a little over 4 years we got together 8th March 2013 were not yet engaged but we know we want to be married by 2015!

[floridaellen]

We got engaged on March 22nd, 2013 which was five days after our 3 year anniversary.

We don't have a date yet but we are tentatively planning the wedding for either May 17th or May 24th of 2014, about 2 months after our 4 year anniversary.