How long did you date before marriage?

[princesstommi]

Started dating December 2000. Got engaged May 2001. Married July 2002.

 

[CamColt]

Met 1/28/94, First Date 2/8/94, Engaged 12/24/94, Married 7/22/95, so just under a year and a half.

 

[bellacam]

DH and I started dating in April of 1994 and were married on November 6, 1999...so thats 5.5 years of dating.

 

[Sirius]

4 years

 

[KristiKelly]

dated for 6 years, married for 10 years

 

[lesroi]

Dated for 7 years, been married for 9 years in March. I see I am not the only one who waited and waited and waited and waited!

 

[Otto's Doll]

We started dating on February 19, 1991 and got engaged for my birthday, May 1991, and married on November 16, 1991. So 9 months. He says he knew he was going to marry me after our first date... so did I!

 

[jimmiej]

Started "going together" Nov. 6, 1973. Married in '81.

 

[MI mom of 3]

We dated for 3 months before we got engaged then waited 13 months until the wedding. We have been married for almost 19 years

 

[mrsheppo]

We started dating on April 20, 1998 and got married on July 18, 1998 so not quite 3 months. Still going strong 6 1/2 years later.

 

[Tiggerlover91]

DH and I became girlfriend/boyfriend on January 31st, 1988. We had our first official date on February 14th of the same year. We got engaged in November of 1990 and we were married May 22nd, 1991!
So as I beat around the bush about it...we were together 3 years before we got married.

 

[Rowena]

This is either very romantic or really tacky. Take your pick. My roomate worked in a bar. I'd drive her to work, have a fun night with some drinks, rounds of pool, and a dance or two and she'd drive me home. The night she worked just after my birthday, I had a few too many courtesy of the friendly bartenders I knew and met my future hubby, the really drunk jarhead who wasn't pushy and protected me fom males I did not wish to talk to. We really hit it off but were both a bit drunk to recall details.
Dec 5th. Pearl Harbor Remeberance day, we met again. He was miffed the dollar shooters were Buttershots and not Kamikaze's out of respect. He liked the thought but wanted a better shot special. Desert Storm was going on, he had minimal threat of going there as he'd been retained by the USMC 3 months from separating after his straigt eight years, no reserve. There was still a small threat he could be sent, as his friends. We hung out in the bar everyweek, not everyday but more than just the weekends for 2 months. Our first date was after Valentine's Day but before Easter. We went to Denny's, drank coffee, colored in coloring books and talked what our kids would be named. ( We got one right, the other was tossed out.)We dated, broke up, made up, then got sepated by...the continent of American and wrote.(He stayed in CA I went to SC.)July, I came back to CA, moved in with him, as I already KNEW he was THE ONE. Five months later, he proposed with a ring I'd drawn a design of in our kitchen. I still made him call my step-dad and ask permission. A Year after that we were married.
Twelve years and one month later, I still love him to pieces.

So, uh, 2 years and two months?

 

[1stNoel]

I think I hold the record, so far. I met DH when I was 18. We dated for 5 years, and then lived together for 5 years.

At 10 years neither of us really felt the need, but we had a group trip going to Vegas for the President's Day holiday, so we did it.

It was the 6:15 ceremony at Circus Circus (where else?) and the minister, Lucretia with her long black hair and heavy makeup, stopped in the middle of the ceremony to tell me I was much prettier in person (I was doing TV commercials at the time) and then asked for my autograph. My mother had the giggles from there out, which was contagious throughout the room. The videographer was laughing and the tape bounces up and down each time he looses it. Hey, what do you expect from a 15 minute, $100 wedding? It was a blast.

We'll have our 14th wedding anniversary this Valentines Day. Where does the time go?

 

[BriarRose04]

we got engaged after 5 months and married 7 months after that (last may). but i knew i was going to marry him before we dated

 

[Trackerbee]

27 years and we still aren't married! Probably why we get along so good

 

[DisneyPhD]

We met Aug 1989, right after HS graduation. We both knew we wanted marry each other rather soon after starting to date, but we were young. We got married in 1993 when we were both 22 years old and fresh out of college. So we have been together 15 years now. Coming up on half our lives soon.

If we had been older when we met we would of not dated so long 1st. And we did not live together 1st, we wanted to be married, not play house. When you are sure you are sure. 2 kids and almost 12 years of marrige later, and still very much in love.

 

[4greatboys]

We dated for 2 years, lived together for 2 more years then got married. We have been married now for 6 years and together for 10 years

 

[ElizK]

I voted 2-3 years, but Dh and I were very young when we first started dating. I was 17, he was 19. We married 2yrs and 3mons later. Going on 17 years, come March.

 

[Patio]

We dated for 10 months before we got married. We will be married 16 yrs on March 4th.

 

[danacara]

I really enjoyed this thread, really cute and inspiring stories!