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So I have been with my man for a little over 2.5 years and I am already getting antsy for the ring!!! I wanna know how long it took for your fiance to propose to you? How long were you together? Did you have any idea he was looking for a ring?
We had been together about 4 1/2 years before he proposed, but we were also young when we started dating (I was 16 I think?). I had NO idea he was ring shopping. AT ALL. lol
We had been together 2.5 years, we had been talking about it for awhile and I only knew he had bought a ring because I saw the bank statement - oops.
We'd been together 4 years, we'd been talking about marriage just about the whole time, we'd found *the ring* 2 years earlier, and he'd had it for 8 months (and accidentally left it out on his desk--d'oh!). I was the definition of antsy. But he had his reasons, and now I'm glad he didn't give into my early impatient wedding craziness.
I'll let you know as soon as I know. LOL! We've been together 2.5 years now, but I honestly don't expect it to happen until 2010......sigh.....
I think I am going to be in the minority here but.... 6 months. We started talking about it 3 months in. We just knew!
sjbee - we moved in after 6 months and we had been talking about getting married since around 3 months, we just wanted to take our time, sometimes you just know don't you?
FI and I were engaged after 8 months of dating. I think it would have been longer if we didn't have to deal with immigration, though.
We were together about a year and a half when he proposed. We'd first brought up the subject of marriage in our first month of dating, though. Still, he somehow managed to catch me completely by surprise with that ring!
We'd been together a little over three years, but we were talking about it almost as soon as we got together.. I know that's crazy, but we just knew, and we weren't afraid to talk about it!
We were dating for 10 years when he proposed and I had no clue it was coming. My friends say that I am the most patient gal ever, but I was in no rush to be engaged or married......and I am in my late 20's. We took our sweet time and I wouldn't have it any other way.
We were together just under two years, but he was talking about marriage after two WEEKS of dating. So, I technically waited for the ring for almost 2 years!
We'd been together for around 2 yrs and 10 months, then he proposed. We talked about marriage before, and we both know that we go in the same exact direction. I was being impatient, but when it came, I couldn't ask for anything better. So, be patient and it's one of the most exciting part of life ;)
2 years 2 months 15 days and still counting :) he's not ready. i am. and the waiting game continues.
@sjbee - lucky! :P
We were together 2 years 7 months but he proposed because we were planning to go home to the US for my brother's wedding (it was May). If he'd come home with me in February for my best friend's birthday he said he would have proposed then. He said he wanted to do it when I would be going home so that I could celebrate with my family. I'd been pretty antsy for about 9 months prior but I knew that he wanted us to be together at least 2 years before we got engaged - that was important to him so it was ok with me - as long as it happened before I was using a walker!
We were together 3 years before we got engaged. He had a date in mind, I just had to wait for it but I was definitely antsy about it around the 2 year mark.
He first told he he wanted to marry me about six months into our relationship but his offical proposal was two months shy of two years.
3.5 years. We started dating when I was 19. He proposed a few days after I graduated college.
we were together about... 2.5 years, just shy of that i think. i knew he had the ring, but i thought he was going to hold onto it longer, so i was fairly surprised!!
You won't like my answer....but 7.5 years. We started talking about marriage about a month into our relationship....but we were so young (21) we knew we wanted to wait a bit. We looked at rings about 6 months before he proposed. Though, I think the "wait" was about 6 months too long : )
8.5 years (but we started dating when I was 16 and he was 17) we got married at 9.5 years :-) He's lucky - I had told him years ago that there was NO WAY I was going to be dating for 10 years before we got married!
We started dating and pretty quickly started talking about marriage. We knew that we wanted to spend the rest of our lives together. About ten months into our relationship, he started talking about looking for rings. 6 months later, he proposed. When we get married we'll have been together just over 2.5 years.
We dated for 4.5 years before getting engaged, met in college and started dating at 21, so for us it really made sense to wait until we were old enough to be really ready for marriage and a wedding...We started looking at rings last august, got engaged in march...I got pretty annoyed waiting by about october....
We had been dating 5.5 years when we got engaged - we picked out the ring 2 years before he proposed but money issues kept it from being sooner!
He had the ring in his possession for 2 days before he did it!
People were actually suprised we took as long as we did getting married as we took to everything else, that they yelled with joy that is, FINALLY when we got engaged. We started dating 3 years ago and spoke of marriage about 2 mths in and moved in togethor then too. Everything came fast for us, we knew we wanted to marry each other just took our time working out the details after moving in. I did start to get a little antsy around Feb, the 2 1/2 yr mark too because we had been talking the last couple mths of being engaged by the new year, that did not happen and I was like look, I need to know by our 3 yr mark what is up. We had conquered everything and physically for health reasons need to start having kids soon. He knew and understood just was on a different time frame. But hey, he already had the ring then, got engaged in March and then went fast, again, and got married in July, 3 mths later. There is no right or wrong time frame with these things. I know your anxious, I was there and got all the questions from people that drive you nuts and make you insecure, but we always said when we are ready it will fall into place. It did perfectly and will for you too. We were ready, I think any earlier and we would not have been and would not have treasured it and enjoy life the way we do now.
1.5 years into our relationship, almost exactly. That was his deadline, haha! ;)
We had been together for almost five years when we got engaged. We dated through half of college and lived together for three years before he popped the question. We had casually looked at rings, but I had no idea he had gone shopping or anything.
I surprisingly wasn't antsy to get engaged. I was happy the way were at the time, and I would have been fine waiting even longer. But I sure am glad to be getting married next summer :o)
Wow! Some of you girls are so patient. I can't imagine waiting 8-10 years! I guess you just know when it feels right and everyone is different. I also cant imagine getting engaged after 6 months lol. thats just me though. Yes i am antsy and anxious to get the ring but the suspense is also really fun!
we were together for 11 months when we got engaged, i had met him a year ago that day. we moved in together five months after we started dating. it all seemed pretty quick, but a good quick.
We had been together for about 3 1/2 years. We bought a house recently so things were kinda crazy so I wasn't expecting it anytime soon, but I think when his sister got engaged it kinda lit a spark and got the ball rolling. He did it pretty soon after his sisters engagement.
He bought the ring on our six month anniversary, and formally proposed five days later when he picked it up at the jewelers.
We were together for just under 2 years when he proposed! We went ring shopping after about a year and a half, and he had the ring for all of about 3 hours before he gave it to me! I knew he was buying, and I still was surprised when I got it! I know the anticipation sucks sometimes, but in a way I kind of miss the excitement of thinking "Is today the day??" Enjoy it!
I am newly engaged; 3 weeks to be exact! We have been dating for over 5 years. We began dating in May of 2004. We have talked about living together & the conversation of "When we get married......" But it was always just hypothetical. We'd never really talked in depth about it or looked for rings or andything. I had no idea that he was ready to take that step. I definatly was ready but didn't push him on it. If he wasn't ready I didn't want him to try and be. I was totally shocked. It was the most amazing surprise ever; because I had no idea :) Believe me ladies it's worth the wait; just to know that he's ready & it was his choice is a wonderful feeling.
We were together One year, four months and four days! Most of our friends and family said finally but I think it was perfect timing for him. We were moving in together the next day and he knew that I didn't want to move in together without a ring but I understood that he was still in grad school. After he propsed he told me he wanted to buy the ring for our one year anniversary he just couldn't afford it yet!
I was ready at about 2 years. Our engagement was absolutely not a surprise: long before that we decided we'd get engaged the summer before my last year of law school (after 3 and a half years of dating) and get married right after, before I started studying for the Bar. But at the two-year point (six months after we'd made that decision... our pre-engagement period, if you will ;), I decided I absolutely couldn't wait that long and we started talking about it more (which was good, because it took longer to save for the ring than either of us thought). We got engaged at 2y, 9mo of dating, and will be married at 4y, 3 mo.
We were together about 10 months before he proposed...although we had practically been talking about it since our first date. We just knew!
Um...I think on our second un-official date (because I "wasn't dating anyone" at the time we met) my FH brought it up. I told him he was crazy and to stop talking like that. He kept bringing it up, just saying "I will marry you." We met in Sept., I agreed to get married in January, picked out a ring together in February and our wedding is in two weeks! Crazy..yes! My two previous relationships were both five years long and both had a lot of marriage talk but no action. When I met my FH, it was like a light bulb went off. Like I said when I met him, I told him I am not dating anyone, we can be friends as I had just..like one month prior.. got out of the five year relationship. So I would actually only talk to him for the first month of knowing him, wouldn't even go on a date with him. Then the light bulb went off at how absolutely wonderful of a person he was and I just knew. So, we will have met and married in less than year. And I have never been more sure or happier. But the funniest part is he brought it up and was the impatient one, waiting for me to agree to marry him.
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