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Me! I have been with my fiance for almost 11 months ~ we were engaged at 8 months! He is the love of my life and I can't wait to get married!
Yep! We moved in together after about a month or so, and knew we were going to get married, but had to get a little extra money for a ring. He proposed in December and we will be getting married in September, a month after our 1 year anniversary! A lot of people look down on moving so fast, but thats ok. We both know that this is what we want and we are ready. Whats your story?!
well now i've been with him for almost two years, but we were engaged at 11 months.
@rosie girl, sounds just like us!! we moved in together after 3 months.
we had seen one another at work almost every single day for about 30 seconds each time for an entire year. last may, i was bored and thinking about him after he'd just walked out of the office. i found him on facebook, became friends, went out that night to a cubs/cards game and HIT IT OFF!
the next month, he half-jokingly told me if the cubs win the world series, he would ask me to marry him. i became a cubs fan. then, we decided that's what we wanted anyway! we both know ourselves and are able to take a step back and say, yes, these are the qualities i want in a lifelong companion. that's what makes me trust it... because it is both logical and emotional!
it was a little uncanny because we were both FRESH out of terrible relationships and neither of us was looking for seriousness at that point. it happens when you least expect it!
congrats to you Bees. sometimes this type of situation can be hard because most people do not believe it can happen like this.
well, it does! BELIEVE, BEES :)
My FI and I are coming up on our 1yr anniversary. We got engaged after about 8 1/2 months. We knew after about 2 months, and saved up for the perfect ring. We moved in together after 5 months (bought a house together.) We are getting married on our 2 year anniversary! :)
He was rather, uh, certain.
But he picked out my perfect ring knowing only that I liked sapphires rather than diamonds.
Gorgeous!!! I LOVE that ring.
I am struck by colored stones, but can't convince the BF... although he hasn't proposed yet, so we'll see :)
Thanks! You can't tell, but it's a Tiffany-style setting.
I never thought I'd go for a round cut stone, but love my ring. Let yourself be surprised. It's so much fun!
I would be really interested to revisit this thread and get updates from everyone in a few years :)
Like @gocubbies said, "most people do not believe it can happen like this", so if y'all are still happy and doing well in a few years, that would be a great way to show that it can!
We were together less than a year when he proposed. He bought the ring after a few months. It can definitely happen and i'm so glad to see i'm in good company!
Well, all, maybe try to keep this on the back burner somehow.. and revisit one day!
I have no doubts WB will still be here :)
and yes, @farfromordinarybride, it feels great to know others are experiencing the same thing as we are! Congrats to you :)
My parents got married after knowing each other/dating for three months and have been married for 30 years this July. So sometimes it does work. My fiancée and I started dating in March of last year, although we had known each other for a few years, and we're getting married March 14th!
FI and I had been together for 10 months when he proposed, but we started talking seriously about marriage just a few months into our relationship. We started looking for rings after 5 months. We'll be 4 months away from our second anniversary on our wedding day!
Mr. Bunny and I were together for 8 months when he proposed and had a 9 month engagement. Btw, my parents got engaged the second time they met in person --they were long distance and have been married almost 30 years! Mr. B's parents met in December, got engaged in March, married in June and have been together just as long as my parents have. :)
@bunny - That's such a neat story about your parents. That's how it was for me and FI, too. (Well, third time in person, anyway.) Would you mind sharing more about how they came to know one another?
My husband and I were engaged after a month, married 6 months after that. In total, we've been together 1 year 2 months now.
Mr. Swan's parents were together for about four months before getting engaged, and they have been married for 37 years.
My FI proposed after a little over a year. The real story is about my parents AND grandparents. My parents knew each other for a month before they got married and are still married. They have been married 25 years and are still going strong! As for my grandparents they have been together for the past 54 years! It can happen! I wish you all best of luck and pure happiness!
Congratulations!
Not about me (we had dated over 5 years before getting engaged), but my parents talked about getting married the first time they met. It was at a mixer at the Officer's Club (my dad is an Air Force officer, my mom's dad was a Naval officer, and she was previously engaged to an officer...she has a type). They danced, hit it off, and grilled eachother on life goals, how many kids they wanted, etc. all night. They were engaged within a few months, married within 16 months. They will celebrate their 30th anniversary this fall. And based on their sock/naughty drawer (eye bleach! eye bleach! DON'T try to borrow socks from your mom) they are still very much into eachother.
And based on their sock/naughty drawer (eye bleach! eye bleach! DON'T try to borrow socks from your mom) they are still very much into eachother.
LOL.
With the socks, huh? Foot fetish?
(I kid, I kid.)
We started casually seeing each other around December 2008 but weren't really together until around February. We decided last summer, after only a few months, that we would eventually get engaged, and we designed and bought the ring. He held onto it and finally proposed this January, and our wedding will be this September!
My parents got MARRIED after 3 weeks! They met when my dad's band was on tour (he left the next day) and then talked on the phone for hours every day. After the tour, my mom went to visit him in California and they got married. They are still together :) I had been dating my fiance for 4.5 years before we got engaged.
BTW, I don't think a short courtship is bad at all. And I come at it from a not-so-romantic POV. I don't think there is such thing as The One. There are lots of Ones, and if you meet a One at the right time in your life for both of you...awesome. As much as I have enjoyed my many years with FI, we met at a terribly inconvenient time.
here's my story, we met each other one night and kept in touch with each other after meeting each other one night, ...and we lived in different continents! I met him in Times square in NYC , he is from Great Britain, and spent most of our dating life long distance, Bam! I wasnt interested in anyone else after I met him even when he was 5000 miles away from me, we are now married I just moved to England 2 months ago
it is true, you do not know when or where or how you will meet your future, when it's right you know it is right and will withstand anything; whether it's knowing someone less than a year before deciding or keeping on with a 2 year relationship long distance and tying the knot; love knows no boundaries
when its right it hits you like lightning!
I'm not in this situation, but a friend of mine, his parents met at our college basketball game when his mom was a student there and got married 6 months later.LOL Funny thing to me, his dad when to the biggest rival for our college. Marrying rivals.LOL
We got engaged after two years together (exactly) but about a month in, I texted one of my friends with "I'll be damned if I don't marry this guy someday." I knew. :)
FH and I got engaged after 5 months and will be married a month before our 1 yr anniversary. We just tell people when its right its right but for the most part we haven't heard a lot of criticism (atleast to our faces)
My mom and stepdad got married on their 2 month anniversary. Occassionally my mom will say she wishes they waited a couple extra months to get stuff established before marriage but overall they're happy and content with their decision almost 2 yrs later.
I love this post! Everyone's stories are so heartwarming!
Jason and I aren't engaged yet, but we will fit into this category! We met under very unfortunate circumstances (the same night my ex-fi cheated on me!) But he instantly became my best friend, we are seriously just drawn to eachother! We fell in love after two weeks, he knew I was exactly what he wanted/needed after one month (while we were only friends, and I was still in a failing relationship with my ex). Six months later I broke up with my ex, and I moved in with him after actually dating for only one week (supposed to be temporary)... talking about marriage about a month after that (living with him was no longer temporary!).
It was actually really cute, I was talking about moving into my new rented house and he got all sad and tried to make a deal that I would spend 5 nights a week at his house, saying "I just got to have you in my life, I don't want you leaving now!" After that, he said "what if you just don't move out"... Needless to say, I didn't... :)
We've been together for seven months and already have a 5 year plan that we made when we had only been dating for two months! I can't imagine my life without him and can't wait to be his wife! :)
My FI and I started dating Feb 13th, 2009 - I know the exact date because I didnt want to go on our first date on Valentines day so we scheduled it the day before lol. He proposed on Aug 27th so we werent even together a year and to me rationalizing it out it was weird but I totally dont care at all. Things were kind of put in fast forward because we met while we were both working on the road and I was moving back to the mid-west at the end of July. When I left it was really hard for both of us and he flew down in Aug to see me and when I went to pick him up at the airport he got down on one knee right there in the airport and asked. His reasoning was he felt like it was now or never and he by no means wanted to risk me losing.
We were together for about 8 and a half months before he proposed. He's older, established, and well ready for marriage so it didn't take us long. We're having a 12 month engagement. When you know - you know. :o)
Glad I'm not the only one!
My FI and I met in May of 2009, started dating in August, he moved in in September and we got engaged in November! It was fast but I wouldn't change a thing. :D
We were officially a couple in June 2009. Engagement happened December 6, 2010 (six months later). Our wedding date is October 2, 2010, so that will be about a year and a half later.
There is a longer story to this. My FI was an old friend. We met in 1994 in the fifth grade and both grew up together in Michigan. I have not lived in Michigan since 2002 and am currently in Arizona.
In February 2009 he called out of the blue and asked me to be his date at the wedding of a mutual friend back in Michigan. His 7 year relationship had ended and thought to ask me when his best friend reminded him how always had so much fun together. I agreed in February to come to Michigan for a wedding that wasn't happening for another six months. We spent February, March and April reconnecting via phone. Late night conversations helped us both remember how much we have in common.
In May 2009, he told me he was coming to Arizona (where I live now) for a three week "vacation". This is still 3 months before the wedding I agreed to be his date to. As an old friend, he stayed at my place for those three weeks. Of course, we fell in love and he decided to stay forever.
Sometimes I can't believe it is really our story! We've always had a connection and finally had the chance as adults to be together because he moved here for me. He told me later it was his plan all along...he had loved me for most of his life and always knew I was the one for him. When he realized I was not coming back to Michigan anytime soon because of my job, he decided to take a risk and relocate himself.
These stories are SUPER cute and make me feel better about mine.. We met in October 2008, started dating late November '08, and got engaged in October of '09. We're getting married May 2010. So in total.. 19 months from when we met to when we will be married. I think if we were younger (I'm 27, he's 32 and I'm totally not knocking the younger pairs just saying for ME) I would have pushed us to wait a little longer. But as someone upthread said, there isn't "the ONE" per say.. and we're perfect for each other. I wouldn't have it any other way.
Sidenote on the parents/grandparents thing.. my parents dated for 6 months and then my mom moved back to the home country. My dad proposed after 6 months of her being there and 5 months later they were married.. So 17 months and they're going on 28 years of marriage (I'm a honeymoon baby). My grandparents grew up with each other's families (my grandmother is 10 years younger than my grandfather) and when she was 17 and he was 27 she ran into him at an airport. Badda bing, like 3 months later they were married. And still are 54 years later. Also had a honeymoon baby. That's one tradition I DON'T want to emulate! :P
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