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My fiance and I just got engaged on new years, so we are having just over a two year engagement. Mainly, because we are paying for everything ourselves and also that will give me time to be able to lose some weight. Of course everyone thinks I am crazy to wait that long. And to them i say, well, do you want to pay for the wedding?!?
our engagement time will be 18 months, people said the same thing to us. People REALLY need to mind their business, they are sssooo nosey! My answer was, it's not a shotgun wedding, no need to rush! haha
18 months here... most people in my area are engaged at least 10+ months with over a year being very common.
1 year exactly. i thought i needed that long to plan. i think i really only needed that long to get a good photographer, other than that, it's been a really long time.
Ours is over 19 months...we wanted plenty of time to save up and plan!
Ours will have been 2.5 years. We got that all the time. I always said we had other things on our plate (new baby, first house). People really should keep their comments to them selves sometimes.
About 2 1/2 years, mostly because a) we want to graduate from college first and b) we want to be financially independent.
Ours was about 8.75 months, we were engaged 2/26/09 and married 11/21/09! I consider it less than 9, as he proposed the first day of our three night cruise and thusly it wasn't announced until March when we returned!! =)
Good to know I'm not the only one! Yea, i am really sick of people trying to tell me what to do. It's my wedding! ugh.
I admire your patience. :) We're engaged 9 mos before our wedding. And it feels like forever!!!
Mine is almost exactly a 5 month engagement :). Everything's falling into place too, so I don't feel rushed at all!
We got engaged 7/11/09 and are getting married 10/23/10 so about 15 months. I wanted ample time to plan and enjoy just being engaged.
2.75 years.... we want to save $ and both be settled in our careers!
It will be 14 months and one day from engagement day to wedding day.
our engagement will be 2.5 years...we are waiting for me to finish grad school, then it will be a quick wedding, and moving to residency! there is just no way we could fit one in before that...
Oh I beat all you not that its a good thing so I will not post how long haha.
4 months. And everyone acts like we ARE having a shotgun wedding, so I think no matter if its a long or short engagement, people having something to say :) I didn't know all the stuff that goes into planning a wedding, so I'm feeling a little rushed, but luckily things are coming together
A year in a half! I def hear waiting to save! We are in the same boat. Who ever thought this one day would be sooo expensive!
Tell people that they can contribute to the funds if they want you to get married earlier:)
@ sep queen... now i'm curious :P. how long was your engagement? you don't have to post just wondering :).
@ksnow, tell me about it! so much planning, but you have plenty of time, no worries!
10 months 
I would have the same answer to your friends that ask, good for you!
@sep queen- me too i'm curious!! no worries, u are among friends, we won't sting!
10 months and 2 days.... but my little sister was engaged for about 4 years when they got married this past September.
@sep - I'm curious, too, and certainly won't judge! There have been times we've considered a really short engagement and a longer one than 2.5 years - so I see the whole spectrum!
25 months! For us it was to save and pay for half of the wedding (my parents are paying the other half). We probably could have had a little bit shorter but FI really wanted it the Saturday closest to our dating anniversary.
@llc- ours is the saturday closest to our dating anniversary too! :)
@sep- I am curios too and this is my post so you have to tell me. HAHA just kidding. I really am curious now though.
15 months, total. We only have about 6.5 months left, tho. thank goodness. lol. If you want 2 years, do it! It's about you guys being comfortable with the idea, not other people.
Now Im curious about sep queen too! Ours will be 11 days short of 1 year! I feel like any longer and I would have lost my patience!! I probably could have had a shorter engagement because I dont think I really needed all this time, but the extra time can be nice sometimes. There is no "right" amount of time to be engaged so don't let anyone tell you differently!
A year and a week. We were engaged on Christmas 09' and will get married on New Years Day. We dated for about 6.5 years before getting engaged (since we were 17).
18 months to the day (not intentional)
We are coming up on our 1 year engageaversary on March 5th!
A little over 2 years and it sucked initially. No one took us seriously when we said 2010. They were kind of like "yeah.. congrats.. whatever." And now they are like "tell me every detail! when are you getting your dress! what should i wear?" Hang in there!
21 months. 6 1/2 down, 14 1/2 to go! Seems to be going by quickly though.
@sep - that's not bad to me, but I guess that's how I ended up with a 2 1/2 year engagement - we knew we didn't want to get married until we had met certain "adult" markers (graduation, financial independence) but we were ready to have that public commitment. It's really frustrating being emotionally ready, but knowing you're not financially ready yet. Oh well, that's the pitfall of dating young! (For me, at least.)
@lilyfaith I agree we were young aswell we knew we wanted to have our dream wedding and not worry about the finacial part so thats why we waited and im blessed that now we get to have the wedding we want and not have to worry about the money aspect of it : )
Originally we set our wedding for 11 months from our engagement. But then we ended up pushing it back a year because of other family and friends' weddings that we were in...
So in the end we were engaged for 23 months - just shy of 2 years. I must say, although I didn't want a long engagement, I really enjoyed having such low stress wedding planning.
I will waite for about 10month.we engaged at Jan this year...haha,hope everything will be fine.
I think two years is fine,as you have time to achive your personal goals.
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