How long did you date before you got engaged/married?

[Cygnus]

We dated for 5 months before we got engaged though we were friends for a year before we started dating. Then we married 3.5 years later. Various reasons for the long engagement such as our age, housing situation, a death in the family, etc. If we could go back in time we'd do it all the same again.

 

[QueenPug]

we dated for 2 years before we got married.

 

[barefeetonholyground]

We got engaged three months after we started dating, and married one week after our one year anniversary. I wouldn't have done anything differently.

 

[CrystalBrooke]

Well, we dated for nearly 3 years before I got pregnant and were engaged for about 2 months before we got married. Had I not gotten pregnant, we would have gotten married last summer instead of last winter so it didn't change a lot...well except for starting off with a child a month after we got married.

 

[Nobility]

We'd been friends for about 2 years (REAL good mates as in had 'sleepovers' and that (for birthdays) and each other was close to top of the 5 of the list).

Then we dated for 2.5 months before we got engaged. We had talked about marriage before we dated to see if it was a real option, and only would date to see how compatible we were relationship wise. We got married 14 months after we got engaged. It was this long because I was going to Tanzania for 3 months (6 months after I returned we got married). It felt like a long time, but I'm not sure it woud have been a good idea to have a shorter one... we still had and now have issues to be worked through.

 

[DIANAC]

Dated 2.5 months. Engaged 2 months. Married 28.5 years. Would not have done anything differently.
Diana

 

[Antje]

2 years, 3 months dating (10 months were long distance)
+ 7 months engagement
= 2 years, 10 months until marriage

It worked out great for us, the timing just felt right, I wouldn't have changed it.

 

[Rebekka]

We dated for 2 months before getting engaged (meaning, he gave me the ring and asked me to marry him). We got married 2 months later.

So, the time we met until the time we married...4 months.

We knew within just a few days that we loved each other and wanted to spend forever together. I wouldn't do anything differently. We both knew how we felt and there was no need to wait. We're celebrating 10 years of marraige in May.

To be honest, I don't see the point in long engagements, but to each his own.

I'm not sure how to answer this as I don't completely understand the concept of "dating" (it's not a Dutch concept). But we were quick to discover the depth and seriousness of our feelings for each other just like HeatherJay.

My husband and I had our first and only date six days after our first meeting. Then within two days we knew we were going to marry each other. So I guess we "dated" for two days or something. We married exactly one year after our first meeting, so I think we were engaged for nearly a year. I don't have an engagement ring and neither of us proposed, we just agreed to get married, so I don't know what counts as the first day of our engagement. We set the wedding date about five months after our agreement to get married.

I don't regret anything, it went perfectly. If I could change anything, I would have met my husband at a younger age, say 20 instead of 27. But that's not something I could have influenced. My husband is 10 years my senior and I want to spend as many years with him as possible, so sooner would have been better IMO - but it's not in my hands of course.