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our is 18 months as well, we got engaged about a year ago but won't be married until January
I'm sooooo glad we are taking our time
our engagement will be 21 months. it's nice to have plenty of time to plan, but almost 2 years is *too much* time in my opinion! i keep changing my mind on colors...themes...flowers...etc.!
Ours was 20 months. Having plenty of time is good... it'll all pass by before you know it!
We had a 17 month engagement...I thought it was perfect. Just enough time to seriously save $$ for the wedding but not too much time that we felt like it wasn't real.
We did get some weird looks when we were planning with over a year until the big day though. Did that happen to anyone else?
I found that most of the work came right at the beginning when picking the venue, date, location, etc. and for the last like 6 months at the end with all the details.
I REALLY could not have planned a wedding in 6 months or less but have several friends who have. How do you do it, ladies? I had so much time and was still stressed out of my mind.
Anyway...long answer to a short question.
PS- Now that I am married I miss my engagement! Enjoy it while it lasts. But don't get me wrong, I do love being married too. Just loved being the bride. :)
We have a 13 month engagement. We're now down to 11 months, and I plan on enjoying every minute of it. Its been a blast so far!
How did I do it? And go to school over full-time. I cried a lot. I am so glad it is over. We had a beautiful wedding and I am so proud to say that I did it all myself!
18 months. Lots of time is wonderful. I've been able to enjoy the planning without as much stress, and we've been able to save some cash, too. Even less stress! Only now that a lot of the work is done I don't know what else to do. So ... I spend entirely too much time poking around Weddingbee....
It will be a year that we've been engaged later on this month and we're getting married in October. We literally just started planning our tiny wedding three weeks ago.
18 months. it really seemed long n never ending untill i started planning the wedding. now time seems to fly. 6 months to go! yay
7 months for me. I got all the vendors and such I wanted, and the shorter timeframe cuts out on second-guessing yourself. I am three months out now and man am I ready to just get on with it!
10 months... definitely the right decision for us and left plenty of time. When we got engaged I wanted to get married in about 6-12 months. I was keen to get married, not be engaged, you see.
It will be exactly four months and 12 days! Planning a wedding in that short a time isn't difficult at all -- it might actually be easier, because you are forced to simplify.
Almost two years. I had just graduated college and started a new job and wanted to get settled with all the changes that were happening in my life before even embarking on wedding planning and we needed to save some serious $$$ since neither of our families are able to contribute at all whatsoever. I had some strange looks when I would tell people our date that was so far off.
What's funny is that now the wedding is only 10 months away and I just started another new job at a better place, so I guess my idea of timing did not work out like I planned, but I am happier now than ever! Just goes to show you no matter how much you try to control things, life happens!
25 months...
It was fantastic because we booked things right away and paid 2006 prices for a wedding in 2008.
It was a loooooonng time though!
13 months I would say and really only 1 year from when we actually booked the date/reception. We are 30 and 31 so were not in a rush necessarily but knew we what time of year we wanted to get married. In the scheme of things I do think being engaged just a few months longer would have made it easier financially. I just would say really try to stick in your budget and know that you will be able to save enough in time. Unfortunately my finacee got laid off which is part of why it made it tough on us but something we couldn't have predicted when we booked all of our vendors. Always prepare for the unexpected!
28 months (OK, at that rate you may as well just say 2 years) and we're at the 8 month mark. Why? I'd just started grad school and wanted to enjoy the planning process.
I started honest-to-goodness booking things a year out, and people thought I was crazy early. All the big stuff is done, so I'm in that ho-hum lull when not much happens.
Looking back, my grandmother was right. Six months would have been fine, I just want to be married already!! 
Ours will end up being about 15 months. I would have been comfortable with anything from 6-18 months.
my engagement will be 16 months. 12 months to go!
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We started with 19 months, and how time has flown! We only have 9 left - yikes! Thank god we had such a cushion of time - it took us 7 months to find a venue :)
xo,
Broke-Ass Bride.
17 months - This was set based on how much we could realistically save each month to add up to enough to get ourselves a low key wedding for 50-60 people. We're nearing almost a year away and those five months have really flown by. I booked things early because FI and I are super busy in the summer months. It seems a little strange to have so much down time not talking to the vendors - especially with the venue. The venue coordinator has answered a few of my questions via email after we booked (16 months in advance) but we don't have our tasting until sometime in April/May '09 which seems like eon's away. The one thing about the length of the engagement is that time has worked for me and against me. Time has allowed to me to seek out numerous ideas, best costs etc but I'm also constantly changing my mind.
4.5 months for me too.
:)
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21 months. It's a tad long, but we'll survive. The first chunk, I was really busy, and other than booking a venue, we didn't do anything. Now that we're only 9 months out, we're planning "for real."
16 months... still 14 to go, lol. But we have the wedding venus, reception venue, photographer, and DJ all booked. And the best part is, is that their prices are all going up very soon, so we got 2008 pricing for 2009. Yippee!
I have noticed the planning start to wind down already, though. I feel like now that I have the major stuff booked I can calm down a little. I have almost got the STDs and invitations picked out so that won't be too stressful either. I'm liking the longer engagement, but part of me wishes it would just get here already!
23 months which was too long.
By the time, the wedding rolled around, I was just ready to be a Mrs.
9 months. Plenty of time to keep it simple =)
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about 16 months since the time we got engaged...but mostly because I am indecisive about EVERYTHING and couldn't nail down a date for the life of me!
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One week shy of 12 months. We found our venue with 3 weeks of getting engaged since we wanted a summer wedding and nearly everything was booked for saturdays in 2009! Now at 10 months I'm wishing it was closer! I'm just so eager! 
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I was originally hoping it would only be 1 year, but ended being 15 months. 9 months left!
Mine will be around three years. (A little too long in my book) We got engaged the same time we BOTH went to grad school (SOL on money=not wedding) and now that I am about to get a real job, hopefully we will get married next summer. Although I think my FH loved it, he just came around to trying to talk about and decide on wedding plans, and I think he is now genuinely into it. I dropped hints at him for a year or so about what I thought we ought to do with the wedding and now hes had all the time he needs to mull and counteract what I was thinking so that it will be a nice balance now - a wedding that is as much his as mine :-) So really, it was the perfect amount of time to be engaged :-)
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Just out of curiousity, how long was/is your engagement? Mine will be around 18 months or so ...