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Ours was 8 months, but we didn't start planning until the 6 month mark when I moved from Los Angeles to New York (where we got married). I think it was the perfect amount of time for us, largely because we got married in the off season and we didn't have to compete for vendors.
Do you wish you had a shorter or longer engagement period?
Our engagement will be 18 months long, but we didn't start planning until we hit the 12 month mark. For us it has been perfect because we like to take our time with evvvverything. (We dated for 6.5 years before he popped the question.) Anyway, it was so nice to have 6 months to just revel in the mushy happiness of being engaged without having to worry about planning or decision-making!
I wish ours was shorter! By the time we get married, we will have been engaged for 2.5 years! I have been engaged for so long, it was has been hard to kick start the wedding planning because I've been telling myself "Oh, I've got PLENTY of time" for so long!
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Ours will be 20 months by the time we get married... and we're still 19 months away! It seems like forever. However, I have yet to talk to a vendor that has had anyone inquire about the month we are getting married, let alone the day. Plus, we've had one vendor offer 2009 prices for 2010 if we book this early. So, while I am excited to finally be married, it sure is nice to have the extra time to plan, save up, etc.
We will have a 20 month engagement as well ... and we are already 9 months down - Kara it goes faster then you think I promise!
Our circumstances really didnt allow for us to do it any sooner, but I wish we had.
My fiance gave me a "three weeks no planning" rule -- mostly because he knew I/we would be overwhelmed with all the questions so it gave me a simple answer to all the questions "Fiance said I couldnt plan until after my birthday -- so I'm just enjoying being engaged!" it actually ended up being really helpful. Since the three week mark hit though we've been planning here and there. We did most of the big things up front now we have some downtime in the middle months. But once May hits we are invited to TEN weddings before our own (Don't think we'll attend all of them due to lack of funding!) so we want to get a lot of planning done before those start! PLUS we are getting married a week after Christmas -- Jan 2 -- so we want to try as hard as possible not to get bogged down with the details over the last two weeks. (good luck with that huh?)
20 months too! i felt like the only one! Yay for other long egagement people. we are waiting for my much anticipated graduation date :)
Our engagement period is 24 months... and that is 24 months too long!!! I want to be married to my FI right now! :) 8 1/2 months to go!!!!!!!!!
by the time we are married our engagement period will have been 18 months. I really wish it was a bit shorter. I would be much happer with somewhere between 9 - 12 so I would still have time to relax a little, but also not feel like I have more time than I know what to do with! :D
6 months, I wish it could have been a tiny bit longer, but I couldn't wait to get married and I was set on a May or June wedding.
We will have been engaged fo 22 months by the time we get married. It seems like a very long time to me, but we needed the time for me to complete my doctorate degree, study, job-hunt, and wedding plan. Also, ours is a destination wedding in Sonoma, CA so we wanted lots of time to plan from afar. I feel like the ultimate multi-takster at this point. We didn't set a date or sign any contracts until earlier this month. Now I have everyone booked except the officiant and there are still 14 months to go.
Ours will be about two years, but this is by my choice. I just graduated from college, and at 22, I consider myself just plain too young to get married. I know several people who got married right out of college or even younger, but it just isn't something I feel comfortable with. Even though we've been together almost three years now, I want us to spend some time living together before we get married (we're moving in together this summer). We love each other and are going to be together no matter what, so I don't mind waiting a little while (and having tons of time to plan!).
Plus, we want his niece and my newest second cousin to be flower girl and ring bearer -- and they are currently three months old and thirteen months old, respectively! Gotta wait til they are at least two and three yrs old, I think!
16 months for us-- I'd marry him tomorrow, but it's been nice to have a long stretch of time to just enjoy being engaged without having the pressure of making decisions.
Ours will be 17 months--we had to account for immigration and when his family can fly to the US from London. It was nice to be able to enjoy being engaged for the first half of that time without the stress of planning.
By the time we get married, our engagement will have lasted for 23 months! It seems like forever! There really is no good reason why we are choosing to wait, other than the fact that fate has conspired against us; there is no good time to do it before the summer of 2010 (and trust me, I've evaluated all of the options). I am just trying to tell myself that you are only engaged once in your life, and once the wedding day comes and goes, it's over. Might as well enjoy this time for as long as I can!
Ours will be 8 months. It seemed like plenty of time after my friend planned her wedding in 9 months and said it was 'too long'. Now that I've been told many a time that I need buy my dress at least 6 months before the wedding. I better get crackin'!
We will be engaged for 14 months by the time we get married. Sometimes it seems like waaaaay too long, but overall, I'm happy with the length. We didn't have to rush anything, we didn't have to settle, and I like seeing how the wedding has evolved. We're having a MUCH different wedding then the one I originally thought of 9 months ago... and thank goodness for that!
Five months to go!!!
18 months for us. At first I thought it might be too long, but I'm so glad that we chose to have a long engagement! We also like to take our time, I guess -- we've been together since we were 16, didn't get engaged until we were 24, and we'll be getting married at 25/6 on the exact date of our 9th anniversary! 
our engagement was only 7 months. it was going to be 9, but 3 months before the new date we completely changed course from a destination wedding to a small, outdoor ceremony.
HumarockBride and I are date twins, and virtually engagement date twins, too! We'll be engaged for about 19 months and 3 weeks by the time we tie the knot on Jan. 2, 2010. It will be a long engagement, but we used the first six months or so to just do a lot of conceptual planning (and get all of the mind-changing out of our systems!). We're just now getting down to the concrete stuff. :)
Our engament is almost exactly 2 years. We love October, it is when we met, our first date, his parents anniversary, when he proposed, so it is really special to us. My sister is getting married next October, so to have an October wedding, we had to wait two years, but it works out because we'll need the two years to save.
I am happy with our long engagment. It really helps financially and there rae just way to many weddings in my family already next year.
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Exactly 1 year. We got engaged on 3/15/08 and will be married on 3/14/2009. I think it is the perfect amount of time for us for saving and DIY purposes.
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our engagement period is 14 months, because I wanted to enjoy being engaged for as long as possible, annddd we got engaged in 10 months while dating long distance. so i like the long engagement! more time with my family in rhode island before i move, and less stress to get everything done!
we are getting married in less than 6 months! whoopee!
11 months (less than 9 months away!) I wish we could have done it even soon (we have been together for 7.5 years....) but logistically October worked best.
8 months. And I wish it was shorter! Besides reserving the important vendors, I don't think I need this much time to get stuff together. Granted, now that we have the time, I'm planning on DIY and detailing to the MAX.
But then, my perspective is completely different as I am a long distance fiance! Hating being 2000 miles apart has made me wish we went to the courthouse over the holidays! Five months to go!
We opted to have a longer engagement -- 21 months! Mr. MagPie is finishing his degree in physical therapy, and we'd already been together for over six years when we got engaged. Our decision was also partially strategic -- the church we wanted to book fills up starting 18 months out!
Exactly 10 months - which is the perfect amount of time for me. I couldn't handle planning/thinking for much longer than that :)
14 months to the day
It felt like to took forever to get to the big day, but then all of sudden it was here and over. (September 20, 2008)
ours will probabyl be a little over 1 year.
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It will be 4 and a half years when we get married... LONG TIME! I was only 17 when we got engaged, so a long engagement was the best thing for us.
I am similar to Miss. Kitten, and my engagement will last about two and a half years. We intended to get married in summer 2009, but I'm still looking for a job (just graduated in May). My fiance and I want to be financially stable to pay for the wedding and also have some left over for moving out after the wedding. I would be just as happy to elope and get married in the court house.
Our engagement period will probably end up being a little less than two years since I'll just be starting law school this year, planning a wedding would be a lot to handle. I'm so excited for our long engagement, as it will give us lots of time to research and plan! Although, after reading everyone's comments, I'm sure it will go by too fast AND too slow ;)
Ours was 10 months (only 2 more months of it left), but I didn't start really planning until about 8 months prior to the big day. I think my engagement period was the perfect amount of time :)
I'm not married yet =P Engaged in Janurary will be married in Sept... but I still think it's too far away - I can't wait to start our lives together and for him to move in =D I do think under a year is the best.. but that's just my opinion =D
Ours is 17 months... too long in my opinion! I wish the big day would just get here already!
Ours will be 10 months...I wish we had a little more time, because so many places were booked by the time we started looking, but I'm set on a particular day and I didn't want to wait another year!
We got engaged in September 08... our Wedding is in June 09. So 9 months. We orginally scheduled it to be in September 09... but I'm such a planner I couldn't stand the wait.
Hhhhmmmm, well, ok we aren't even "officially" engaged yet. BUT, I know it's coming very soon and I know we'll probably have a looong engagment - probably around two years.
10 months. After six years of dating we were both very ready. Also- we wanted to move in together, but I didn't feel comfortable doing it months and months before we were married. Also- like other brides here- I LOVE the fall, and wasn't willing to wait almost two years for the next fall to roll around (we got engaged on New Year's Eve).
About 13 months. We got engaged on 7.7.07 and got married on 8.8.08.
Can you tell we're into numbers? :) Oh and it's easy to remember hehe. We started to planning the wedding about 1 or 2 months after we got engaged.
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