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I had a long engagement. It has been fantastic. I got engaged in March 2008 and I'm getting married in June 2010. I wouldn't change it for anything.
Especially at your age (I'm a little older) I think it would work especially well. You get to take plenty of time to plan, and you get some experience living with each other before the wedding. Win-win in my book :o)
It is NOT a bad thing at all. I would actually recomend it at the age your at right now. Don't get me wrong; age doesn't really matter; but at 19 you have plenty of time to plan & get ideas. We are 22 and 23 and will be 24 and 25 when we are married. We were engaged in August and will have been engaged almost 2 years on our wedding date! It's okay to wait; the time will fly by anyway. NOTE: Save as much money as possible!!! We are buying our first home right now; you don't realize how expensive it is until you're already gone from home. Take this time to save & you won't regret it!
I don't think a long engagement is a bad thing either. Mine is long. Got engaged May 2009 getting married October 2010. And I'm 37! My entire family wanted us to get marriend May 2010 but it's not what we wanted. It's good to save your money and just enjoy the engagement period.
Congratulations by the way!
We have had (are continuing to have) a long engagement by my standards. We got engaged Christmas Eve 2008 and will get married on Sept 5, 2010. I think it's great - you can plan at your leisure and have time to really look and research things all while enjoying just being engaged! :)
-Bella
Thanks everyone!
I just wanted to be atleast 21 before i got married to him, and he really likes the month of august so 2011 was the best bet for us! We just dont like the faces people give us when they say have you picked a date yet? and we give them a date almost 2 years from now! plus we need to pay for everything ourselves so we need to save save save!!!!
I think people don't really realize how expensive weddings can really be...
long engagements are good! no worries, take a look at this thread:
exactly, everyone is talking about well you need to have this party and this kind of party and u have to this and get that.. and im just thinking to myself.. yah and are you going to pay for it? but then they say oh well it doesnt matter your not getting married right away for whatever reason.
well maybe the money duh!!!!!!
I'm also a young-ish bride. I will be 22 when we get married and he will be 24. We will have been engaged for about 16 months.
I am so glad that we have had the time to plan at our leisure, spread out the costs, and just enjoy being engaged. I think because we are younger it has even more advantages.
No--a longer engagement is not a big deal AT ALL. Take your time planning. Plus, what's the rush to get married, right? You both sound comfortable where you are, you can save for the wedding, and yet still enjoy the perks of being engaged (versus the other option of just waiting for an engagement, right? lol). Congrats!
I think that it is great that you are having a longer engagement and saving $$! Plus, being 21 at your wedding will be more fun :) My FI and I are not living together before we are married so I don't think that it is bad at all if you hold off on that for a while. Take your time to plan and save and enjoy this time in your life!!
I was nineteen when my fiance and I decided to get married (the official proposal and the ring came two months after my 20th birthday). All told, our engagement is about three years. We also haven't lived together, and don't plan to until after the wedding.
A long engagement has its ups and downs. On the up side, when you're engaged at a young age, it's good to have a longer engagement and spend some time maturing together, and you have plenty of time to plan the wedding. On the down side, it can get really frustrating to love each other and feel ready to be married, and know that it can't happen just yet.
It's really a personal choice. If you progress further into your engagement and get too frustrated, by all means consider moving your wedding date up. But good luck, in any case! :)
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Me and my fiance just got enagaged on saturday october 17th, as of october 14th we have been together for 2 years, but known each other close to 3 years. he was my brothers bestfriend who tried to convince me for months to go on a date with him but i always said no; one day i got so sick of him asking i finally said yes. After that i knew he was the one..
I am 19 going to be 20 in about 5 months and hes 22 years old. He has a really good job making good money and im in management. We are planning to have our wedding august 7th or 14th of 2011. Is that too long? We dont live with each other and we dont plan on living with each until mid spring. We want to try to save as much money as we can luntil spring and see we are finacially. As of now we have a little 6000 saved for us and dont feel like just spending it on an apartment.. We dont want rush into anything.
Is it bad that we want a long enagement and dont live with each other yet?