Poll, NBR: how long did you....

LaineyPaney

...know/date your SO before getting engaged???

I saw this poll the other day on another board, and I figured we could all use a little something to lighten the mood....

DH and I met, and then got engaged 8 months later!

mslynn2012

Met in 2007, got engaged and married in 2012.

vic1011

"Met" in 2000, Engaged in May 2003, Married in October 2003.

jesselayne8

Friend/coworker for 1.5 yrs before dating then only 8 months dating before getting engaged.

Beachy730

We were together a year and 2 months when we got engaged, and were married at about a month shy of 2 years together.  We will be married for 3 years in July.  

Angela183

Met in 1996, got engaged in December 2009, married in September 2010.

CharlotteJ2

5 years. I had to wear the guy down...

jstring88

Met in Sept 2009, engaged December 2010, and married May 2012.

lumosmaxima

We got engaged after dating for 7 years...but that was through all of college and then we lived together for a while, I don't know if things would have been different had we met as "grown ups"

pearlsonthebeach

Met in October. First date in November. Engaged in February. Married in May. Pregnant in August.

 

We don't waste time. Haha 

 Edited to change conception to August... baby brain ha 

mamatobec

We started dating in Dec. 2005, got engaged July 2011 and married July 2012!

jerseygirl81

Met in 2000, decided we were marriage material in 2002, married in 2005 after i was halfway through grad school.

be888

We got engaged 8 months after we met.

LaineyPaney

pearlsonthebeach:

Met in October. First date in November. Engaged in February. Married in May. Pregnant in August.nbsp;We don't was

Kashy

We were together for 8 years before we got engaged.  We have now been married two years and on the 9th will be our 11 year anniversary.

pnutg

We started dating in 2006, engaged Valentine's day 2009 and married 7 months later!

MrsJ723

Started dating September 2003, engaged December 2003, married July 2005.

AlyssaJoy1210

Met in 2005, started dating October 2007, engaged September 2008, and married the following September. We found out we were pregnant after about 5 months of marriage with our first, and a week shy of our 3rd anniversary with this one.

dawneo

Dated for 5 years, engaged for 1.

BossMamma83

We started dating in August 2007. Got engaged on my Birthday in August 2010 and Got married in August 2011.

ZeeSunflowery1

We met Mid-November 2006, started dating Dec 23rd, 2006, and got engaged April 17th 2009 (2.5 ish years?)

delino

Engaged after 5yrs of dating, married 2yrs later and have been married for 5yrs.

megpeg

We were high school sweet hearts- he was 15, I was 16-November 1999

Engaged- September 2005

Married August 12 2006

together 14 years this year!

 

wcvsb3b5

DH and I were together for 3 years, then engaged for a year and a half, and now we've been married for 2 and a half years!

strawny0807

We met in August 2004, "officially" started dating in October 2004, engaged in March 2007, married in July 2008. 

MAdams728

He was my high school sweetheart.....we started dating in 1996 when I was 16, started living together when I was 18, and we got married in 2000 when I was 20.  We officially got engaged about a year and a half before we got married.

megmoore32

Started dating in 2004 while in high school, engaged in 2009, married in 2010 and having our first baby 2013!

CNJ4EVA

We met in May '98, starting dating November '99, got engaged July '06, and married November '07.  So I knew him a total of 9 years before we got married.

TradeMama

We dated for five years... My last year of college, three years of law school, and then we got engaged when I graduated. We planned the wedding for a year, so five total.

JoJo716

We dated for 5 years, were  engaged for one year and have been married for two. 

GraceUponGrace09

We actually went to school together. Dated a year and got engaged and married the next year.

eco+ri

Met in 2006. Dated and engaged in 2008. Married in 2009. Pregnant in 2009. LOL!

AshleyHJ

We started dating our freshmen year of college in 1997.  Dated for 7 years, engaged in October 2002 and married in June 2004.  We will be married 9 years this June and together for over 15 years at this point.  Yikes - hard to believe when

beppes1013

Met summer of 2007, started dating Oct. 2007, had DS in Aug. 2010, engaged Dec. 2010. Have been engaged ever since.

metzy144

I knew DH for two years before dating him, and we got engaged almost two years after we started dating.

MrsNukem

Dated for 3 years, engaged for another year, married for 6 years. We took our time deciding if we wanted a family and if I knew then about my fertility I wouldn't have waited so long.

c-elizabethf

Met and dated at the beginning of 2011, engaged end of 2011 and married summer of 2012 and got pregnant in 2012. Lol 

LN1024

I am the oddball out on this one. My husband and I met in the summer of 2007. We didn't really get engaged, but made a joint decision to get married because I was supposed to be getting stationed in Hawaii, and he was getting sent to New York state. It

Skk1977

Knew each other and dated for 5 years 9 months, married for 1 year 5 months.

sugarplum513

Started dating February 2009, engaged May 2011, married November 2011.

burkems

Started dating seven months after we met, dated for ten months, engaged for ten months, married for four years!