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Ok ladies... My family and friends all had the same reaction..."ITS ABOUT TIME!" (Except for one friend... but thats another post...) The funny thing is that we weren't even dating for two months when we were engaged!!
My FI and I knew each other for about 10 years before we started dating. We were close friends in High School..Always complaining to each other about our significant others...LOL
When we FINALLY made the move, we "just knew" that we were meant to be! I always used to HATE when people would say that..."You'll just know..." ugh!
My parents dated for just three months and then got married... While my FIs parents dated for YEARS before marrying. Both have now been married for 26 years.
Whats your story?!? Any shocking tales of a short relationship that led to engagement?
Aw, that's so cute!
No short relationship here. We were together for 5 1/2 years before getting engaged. We were only 19 when we got engaged, but we still got a lot of "big surprise!" and "about time" comments. We both just knew early on that we'd find a way to stay together - it just took some convincing our poor parents when we were 16 and talking about how we'd get married someday. ;)
Aww that is a sweet story :) My FI proposed on our 7 year anniversary. It was a tad strange though, b/c it was a TOTAL surprise to ME, but everyone else was like "it's about time!" lol. We're only 24 lol, I don't know why everyone acts like we waited SOOO long
That is a cute story! We were together 4 years before getting engaged and EVERYONE was saying "about time"! We had talked about marriage for a couple years, but I was not ready. After I gave him the "go ahead" he asked me not long after.
Just over 6 years for us (today's our 7 year dating anniversary actually! =D ) and we definitely got the "about time" reaction!
we were dating 6 months when we decided to get married...we "just knew" too...
We were together just 3 months, but we also knew right away. I think everyone was a bit shocked, but we didn't have any negative reactions. We're 32 & 33, and this is the 2nd time for both of us. We know what we're getting into, and we know what we want.
We were together for 9 years before we became officially engaged. However, in the meantime, we moved in together, purchased a home, combined finances, etc. Over the years, he would be ready and I wouldn't be, then I would be and he wouldn't be, and then we finally got on the same readiness page and made it official. We got a lot of "It's about time!" comments.
We were together almost 6.5 years and we got some it's about time comments, but a lot of people were really happy.
also 6 and 1/2 years here too! :) It may be long to some people but it was just right for us. All my relatives had lost hope for me a long time ago though I think LOL. Everyone was a little surprised, including me! :)
4 years and 11 months lol I wanted to get married 2 years in but we were relatively young so we "had" to wait I hate to admit it but from the moment I met him (blind date) I knew he was the one, even though I thought he was weird and shy at first I always knew I would stick around :)
My fiance proposed on our 2-year anniversary! That was on August 1, 2008, so we will have been together for over four years when we get married. I'd say we knew very early on in the dating process that we wanted to get married, but we were in no rush and wanted to get a little further in our professional lives before becoming one entity!
We dated for 6 months before becoming engaged. We will be together two years and some days before we are married. :) That is wonderful everyone was so supportive. I actually got the opposite reaction of "already!" Lol!
We were good friends for 6 years before we started dating, and then dated for 4.5 years before we got engaged. We actually didn't get any "it's about time" comments, but we're 25 so maybe that's why. I'm among the oldest in my extended family so I don't think my aunts and uncles are on the lookout for engagements yet :-)
We were together just over a year when he proposed. We moved in together after 2 months of dating! And we still got the "its about time" comments from both our families LOL
8 months! But to make up for it we will have been engaged for 2 years before we tie the knot!
The FI and I started dating in Sept of '06 and we were engaged in Dec of '09... and will be married in a month! Crazy. Our close family and friends all said "its about time!" but people who don't really know us are SHOCKED that we're getting married. Granted, we're both 22 and we met during college orientation and are getting married 2 days before college graduation which is a little out of the ordinary, I guess.
we got engaged after 11 months. my grandma already called him my husband (we were living together so i think she just liked thinking in her head we were already married). and his mom was pushing since 2 months, without my knowledge. everybody was ready for it to happen.
Cute story!!!
We dated for about 2.5 years off and on long distance (not off and on, just off and on long distance!!) before I moved to his city to be with him. We got engaged about 2 months after that!
We were together 3.5 before he proposed. My parents dated for 6 months before they got engaged... and they've been married for over 25 years!
We were together for about 5 1/2 years before getting engaged. We started dating in April 2004 and we got engaged in December 2009.
Our 6 year dating anniversary is in a few weeks. But neither one of us remembers the exact date. He doesn't remember because he's terrible with dates. And I don't remember because when we first started dating, I didn't think it was going to turn into anything serious, so I didn't make it a point to be aware of the milestones. How wrong I was. :)
These are GREAT stories...!! Keep them coming!
I also like reading your Wedding Dates according to your stories... Its refreshing to know that people CAN actually be patient.
Us on the other hand... We began dating in September, got engaged in November, he moved to my place in December and we'll be married in July...
Lets just say the first four months were a whirl wind.. But I wouldnt change a single thing...
The best part is I love him more today than when I met him...And I know that tommorrow will be even better than today.
10 months. While we were dancing together at one of my close friends wedding's 2 months after we started dating my mother, the brides mother, the grooms mother, and two other very close friends' mothers apparently turned to look at us and they all said that they just had a feeling he would be the one i walk down to the aisle to. They said there was something in the way we look at each other and talk to each other. One week later we traveled across the country to meet his family and as I was unpacking my things 30 minutes after arriving in the guest room his parents and sister told him that they just had a feeling I was the one.
5.5 years! We got a lot of it's about time comments too!
But we were young when we met (21) and wanted to own a house etc. before we got engaged!!!! Perfect timing for us!
We started dating in May 2003, i had just turned 15, he had just turned 20. We got engaged Feb 2010, dating very nearly 7 years. And we wont be married til September 2011, so we'l have been together nearly 8 and a half years by the time we actually get married!!!
We've been living together since October 2006, and we agreed that we would get married at some point quite a long time ago! We've always known that its where we were headed, but we waited a while til things were 'right' before we decided to make it official.
But we definitely got the 'about time' response, but we dont care, now was the right time to do it for us, and thats all that matters!
We had been friends in high school, but neither of us knew we each had feelings for the other one. After graduation, we lost touch, married other people, and divorced. We met again, years later, and started dating. He proposed about three months later.
You'd think everyone would be surprised we moved so fast, but instead we got a LOT of "it's about time" and "big surprise there" from both friends and family.
We has both been burned bad and had basically given up for now, when he decided to talk to me, we had mutual friends but had never met. So after a few months of emailing, (i wasnt ready to actually meet him, i barely even gave him the time of day) i called him one night and asked to hang out. That was last april. We started dating the next day, or well, calling each other boyfriend girlfriend, and we were engaged this february. So, I guess 10 months? It really was a "we just knew" time. and we have already been through a whole lot together as we keep each other together while the past winds down. i think it doesnt matter how long youre together as long as you know full heartedly that it is right. :)
Not engaged yet but we are at the 4+ year marker now. I don't think we will get too many "About time" comments. Everyone knows that we just want to make sure we are ready for it. Neither of us ever married and I'm 29 and he is 34. In the 4 years we had some big blows to our relationship, which prevented "wedding" discussions, but I have a really good feeling that it will happen this spring/summer. *Crosses fingers*
we followed the norm, we got engaged after 2 years and 7 months of dating :)
We met in 1996, got married in 1999, separated in 2001, divorced in 2002, got back in touch in 2006 (the year he got sober!) and decided that since his addictions were the only thing wrong with our marriage in the first place, we'd give it another go - T minus 125 days!
We got engaged after 1 year, 4 months of dating. We had known and talked liked we planned to get married at some point by about two months into the relationship, and started dating only two weeks after I started at our college. We had been through a surprising amount together by that time and I was certain I wanted to and could spend my life with him. We're young, at 21, but our friends had been calling us a "married couple" for ages before we got engaged and FI's parents said they knew from the first time they met me that I was "the one" for him, so it didn't shock anyone. In fact, my aunt had just been asking me about it a few weeks before we got engaged, and she'd only seen us interact on two occasions! Everyone seemed to see it coming, though perhaps not everyone expected us to be engaged in our junior year of college (well technically, it's the fourth year of college for both of us, but we both have t take fifth years for various reasons). But it just seemed right to us. However, we aren't having our wedding till we're in grad school, so a 2-year engagement for us!
We were together for a little under 8 months. I knew the day I met him that he was the one.
4 years but we got together when I was 16 and him 17, we met in 2004
We were together 2 years, 9 months before he popped the question. :)
We had been together for 5 days under a year and a half, and he proposed on the anniversary of the first time we said 'I love you' :D The neat thing was, we started dating within 32 hours of meeting each other. Neither one of us is the type to move super fast, but we just clicked 
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