Leese's NewlyWed Question of the Week...

Original post by leese

May 09, 2006 10:20 AM

How long was your engagement...and if you could do it all over again .... would you have made it longer, shorter, or kept the same?

PrincessConsuela Posted: May 09, 2006 02:14 PM

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we were engaged for 19 months we got engaged july 04 if it were up to me and we had the money we would have gotten married Feb 05 but we didnt however im glad we didnt wait until feb of 06 because then we had enough money to buy our co-op and have the wedding. everything happends for a reason!!!!!

SPITSBRIDE Posted: May 09, 2006 04:28 PM

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I was engaged for 1 year and 7 months (engaged on 4/10/04 and married on 11/26/05). Married life is just AMAZING and I have never been so happy in my entire life, had I known this I would have done it a lot sooner

sarahbelle Posted: May 09, 2006 04:43 PM

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I wanted to get married in Feb of 06, but my dad convinced me that the weather would be bad and people wouldn't come. I waited until APril and it rained. Even still, I am glad we waited....we got to go on a longer HM because Spring Recess was so long this year!

kaklesmay Posted: May 09, 2006 04:47 PM

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Engaged: 9 months

I would keep it the same.

SomethingBlu Posted: May 09, 2006 04:58 PM

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Engaged 4 years and 3 months. Perfect amount of time, perfect age and perfect date. Wouldn't change a thing!

jeanla4c Posted: May 09, 2006 05:58 PM

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Our engagement was 11 months..... I think I would keep it the same---since we dated 7 years before getting engaged---however we had to do things fast and it would have been fun to enjoy just being engaged for a while but all in all, no regrets at all!!!

julz33 Posted: May 09, 2006 07:44 PM

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It was 2 years. For us it was perfect since we were young when we got engaged(21 & 22) and saving for the wedding to pay for it ourselves. If we were older/richer maybe I would have been engaged only 1 year.
But I loved September!

wc0143 Posted: May 09, 2006 07:50 PM

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Okay, I had to check 'My Account' to figure out how long we were engaged ... about 18 months and I would make it shorter only because in the time between our engagement and wedding, both DH's mom and sister passed away. I would have loved for them to be there.

Other than that, I wish we would have gotten engaged way sooner ... we dated for six years before we got engaged and were 37 & 38 when we got married. I wish we were younger and not looking at not yet starting a family while we are close to pushing 40.

Happybride2005 Posted: May 09, 2006 09:13 PM

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we got engaged 4/2/03. we said we would wait 2 yrs and wanted a fall wedding

David'sbride Posted: May 09, 2006 09:42 PM

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11 months, 2 weeks.

Engaged July 17, 2004 in Italy
Married July 4, 2005

If I wasn't a teacher it would have been shorter. At 34 I wasn't having a longer engagment.

spooks Posted: May 09, 2006 10:03 PM

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A little over 10 months - I wanted a short engagement since we'd been dating for 6 years. I felt it was enough time - looking back, I don't know if I'd make it longer - seems to me no matter how long you're engaged the last month is going to be crazy!

KimberlyBride Posted: May 09, 2006 10:54 PM

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Engaged for almost 2 years and thought it was perfect.

Goldi1021 Posted: May 09, 2006 11:31 PM

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10 months. From April to February. I would have done it sooner, perhaps in December but we had a family Bar Mitzvah planned in November and nobody would have been able to come from out of town TWICE so soon. Though DH says he couldn't get married during football season because one of his GM's is a sports writer for the Giants.

RVCBride Posted: May 10, 2006 09:33 AM

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I was engaged on August 13th of 04 and married on November of 05. So that was about a year and 3 month engagement. Perfect amount of time and I would have changed nothing.

CaCRmr Posted: May 10, 2006 10:19 AM

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Our engagement was from July 03-Oct 04. It was a perfect amount of time to plan a wedding. 1 yr and 3 months.

I would have kept it the same

o17range Posted: May 10, 2006 12:14 PM

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We were just shy of 11 months. We got engaged at the end of July in France and got married early June the following year.

Due to the short time, we missed out on a lot of things, like an engagement party because DH had a crazy work schedule and we didn't want it to be too close to the wedding. So most of my family met my husband AT our wedding (his family is from MA so he went home for most holidays). If we were engaged a tad longer, we could have gotten the 'getting to know you' done ahead of time.

Other than that, though, I think it was a perfect amount of time, and again if DH didn't have a crazy schedule maybe we could have worked all that out. It was just enough time to get many of the vendors I wanted and to do enough DIY projects to make everything 'personal' but not too long to stress over everything little thing that happens and not to agonize over every decision.

snowflake Posted: May 14, 2006 05:18 PM

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18 month engagement was perfect for us. Plenty of time, stress-free planning, got the vendors I loved. We were only 21 when we got engaged so i dicn't need to rush to the altar.

Backinneyork Posted: May 14, 2006 09:04 PM

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It was 16 months. If I could do it over, I would have made it 10-12 months.

BKtoLI Posted: May 15, 2006 12:50 AM

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11 months. We managed just fine even with taking the first month off, but if I could have I would have added another 4 or 5 months.

I wanted an October 06 wedding, but changed it out of courtesy to my brother, and we didn't want to wait until 2007.