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how long was/is the time between your engagement and the actual ceremony?
How long do you think you NEEDED to have (your minimum) between the two for planning reasons?
Our is a little longer than most- about 23 months. Knowing how stressed out I can get about the details and that both my FI and I have a tendency to procrastinate, I think its a perfect amount of time for us to plan and save for the wedding we want! Im very happy with our decision!
Well I just got engaged in December but there will be almost exactly 2 years from the engagement to the ceremony. I haven't picked a date yet but it's going to be December 2013. I am finishing up grad school in April and so is my FI so we want to have time to get jobs and plan when we aren't thinking about school!
By thetime we get married, we will be engaged for 3 years, 2 months! Together for 7 years. Wanted to save $$$ and we we're just busy doing other things (traveling, buying a house, etc).
I think you could plan it in 9 months without too many issues.
Mine is 17 months. I think realistically you need atleast 9 months to a year. I enjoyed having the extra time though, and now I am only 5 months out. Time moves fast! There is no right or wrong way of doing it, just make sure to give yourself enough time is all :)
20 months. I recon we could have planned it in 12, but we wanted a summer wedding and to wait until after I graduated so we pushed it back to July. In terms of saving up and paying it off we should have waited about 30 months - but oh well!
22 months for us.....and we are getting married THIS JULY!! The time was perfect for us but you definitely do not need that long to plan a wedding.... It just all depends on what you want, the amount of money saved, etc...
Good Luck!!!!
The time between engagement and "public" wedding was 22 months.
how much time it takes you just depends on how big and complicated your wedding is and how much help you can get. I tihnk the most important thing to do early is locate a venue. the popular ones book super fast.
we booked our venue about 1 year in advance. but besides that, I think 9 months should suffice for the rest of the planning.
The time between our engagement and wedding is 7 months and 2 days! The only issues I have come across is that Saturdays are booked up basically years in advance, and if you want to order a dress, it usually needs to be ordered 6 months in advanced.
I am getting around all this by doing a Friday wedding and I'm 99% sure I have found my dress on dressilyme, just have to try on a sillouhette that is similar.
Considering that in 11 days I have booked a photographer, booked a venue, created a guest list, found the dress I love, booked a DJ, booked a day of coordinator, liasoned with a caterer, and this weekend I am going to talk to my sister about wedding themes for my paper products (invites, escort cards, programs, etc), I think that 7 months is too long for me!
It wasn't about planning, it was ALLL about money.
We needed over a year. Since he proposed in Sept it had to be Sept but Sept was too cold for our liking so it had to be spring, that said it automatically went to 18 months.
Our engagement was 18 months. We booked our venue early, but we didn't do much else until much, much later. In retrospect, I think we needed about 6 months to plan the wedding we wanted and get most of the vendors. Most of the work got done in the two months before the wedding.
about 7 months. We've been together for 3.5 years and I don't think a longer engagement would have worked for me. I'm too anxious to move in with FH!
I have said my bare minimum would have been 6 months to get everything figured out and squared away. Maybe more like 6-8. That being said, ours was over a year. About 13-ish months.
Ours is 18 months and I'm really happy without time line. We were able to take the first month off from planning, then booked some major vendors before couples who got engaged over two major holidays would have started planning. :)
I'm 5 months out with 1 vendor to book, some DIY projects to do, and a couple dress fittings that need to be done. I hope the last 1-2 months will be just "clean up" with regards to the DIY projects.
Mine will come in at a year minus nine days. :) Proposal in November, wedding in November just felt right. But I think you can plan a wedding in much less time than that.
Ours is a 17 month engagement. I'm happy about it, it gave us time to figure things out with school, working, planning, etc..
Our engagement will be about 13 months. Depending on how flexible you are on venue, vendors, etc. I'd think anything over 6 or 7 months would be doable.
Our engagement is going to end up being 23 months but really a year is more than enough time to plan.
I think I would want at least a year to plan, so I could use my vacation time this year to travel back and forth to the ceremony/reception site to work out the details and my vacation time next year for the honeymoon!
But I have been engaged since 2006 which is really too long. We should have just gotten married back then, dragging it out like this is not at all a good idea.
Ours is also a bit longer than most (ok, quite a bit longer)...27 months. I'm a graduate student and I work crazy hours and our wedding will be about 300miles away from where we live so i knew i was going to need a bit more time than most. Add on top of that the fact that NY venues and vendors book about a year in advance and the fact that we're having a pretty large wedding with a bunch of out of town guests (plus we've already been together for 7 years, so whats another bit longer at this point anyway?! haha) and it just made sense to have a longer engagement. I guess it really depends on where you live, what kind of wedding you want and how much time you have to devote to planning. I dont think i would want less than 12 months to plan.
When we get married, we will have been engaged for two and a half years. The thing is, I thought I had so long to plan, so I never got around to planning! Lol. So here I am, five months out, and I literally just started planning last week. I'm confident that I'll pull it off, though. Anything can be done!
We are 14 months. Unless you're dead-set on location, I say you could comfortably do it in about 8 months!
Our engagement will be around 13 months. We got engaged in late spring and wanted to get married early summer but couldn't swing things to happen in a month, haha. That, and I didn't want everyone to think I was knocked up. :)
We will be having a 9.5 month engagement, but I have almost everything done!! If money wasn't an issue, I would have loved to get married around this previous Christmas, which would have been 4.5 months!
Ours is four years, but I think the bare minimum that we would need would be abour 4-6 months.
10 months, and it seems it could have been done in even a shorter time...but we wanted a fall wedding :) it all depends on what your needs and wants are, and if you have a season your set on. The sooner the better is how i look at it :) happy wedding planning!
13 months for us
I'm still working on things - but I'd put them off. If we would have had a shorter engagement, they would have gotten done earlier. I've seen online people suggesting at least 6 months.
18 months for me which was appropriate for our work and school schedules plus our budget. However I wish we had a super short engagement! The more time I have to plan this thing the longer I procrastinate. Plus I find more and more ideas everyday for our wedding...why couldn't it be so much more simple? haha
Our engagement will be almost 2 years to the day. Both my FI and I are grad students and we want to be done with school and employed before tying the knot. It's great though because we have tons of time to plan!
Our engagement will be just under 1 year. I think we could have pulled off the planning in 6 months. :)
Mine is almost exactly 2 years from our May 2011 engagement date (so wedding in May 2013). I'm thrilled with the extra time this has given me to find out great deals, book our favorite vendors, and just relax and enjoy our engagement! But I'm sure you could do it in 6 months, and I think the majority of people take a year or so...
Our engagment was 3 years. We wanted to wait until we had both graduated from college before getting married.
Ours will be about 12 months. Engaged July 3rd and married June 30th. It's been nice being able to take our time finding vendors and ideas that we really like. I'd say you could do it in 8-10 pretty easily though. Any less than that and you really risk vendors already being booked depending on what time of year it is.
Ours will be 28 months. Like PPs, we just want to throw a really good party, and want to save up some money so we can do that. I also don't want to compromise on a Spring wedding - I need peonies!
Foreverrrr. Seems like it anyways. We got engaged Aug 2011 and will likely have our wedding March 2014.
Ours is 18 months, but I probably could have done it in 9 months to 1 year. But the extra time was nice because I never felt rushed.
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