Engagements

[Kacie_bride]

Just out of curosity...How long are you guys going to be engaged before your wedding date. I got engaged on December 23, 2005 and I'm getting married on December 30, 2006. It's a little longer than I wanted, but it works out that way.

[Kacie_bride]

One more thing....I seemed to have goofed up somehow. I was going to put a signature in and it took up this big space that you see and I erased it and the space didn't go away, but the signature did. How do I get it back to normal?

[Jenn060306]

I'm not sure how to fix that big space in your signature. Maybe try erasing everything using Crtl A in then box. copy your sig, into a word document or somthing and just select what you want. Do a test post after to see if it worked or not. Very strange. Never seen that before.

As for my engagement... we got engaged in November 2004 and are getting married in June 2006. We wanted a long engagement because we wanted to take our time planning it, to enjoy this time in our relationship, and because i am still in college. I will be done in April so we felt like it would be good to wait until after then.

[LaceyinPgh]

Sean and I got engaged February 25, 2005 and are getting married May 27, 2006. So that makes our engagement just about 15 months long. We started planning within a few days of getting engaged since we wanted a popular weekend.

[bnd94]

Dan and I got engaged about 8 or 9 years ago on christmas. LOL! We are just now getting around to actually getting married. :bbmrgreen:

[CarlosHoney]

On our 2 year anavarsary we got 'secretly engaged'.. I still don't have a real ring (the one I had was CZ&SS for $10 and doesn't fit... Lose weight) but I found the one I like.. And I think I'm getting it soon.

[WhiskeyGirl]

We got engaged April 12th, 2004 and we got married July 16th,2005. So one year and three months!! It was a good thing because I really needed the time to plan things and then still have time to fight with my BM and MOH on a few issues!! (issues which carried over and now the two of them don't talk to me and NO I wasn't being bridezilla!! They have personal issues they couldn't get over inside of themselves....ok the fact that we have more money then they do kills them!! Its all jealousy!! And my MOH happens to be my brother's wife, that makes for akward times at Christmas!! And other holidays!! ok wait this isn't that kind of thread...lol....sorry!! I'll stop rambling now)

[officiant-fica]

We were engaged Christmas 2003 and married in June 2005. I wanted to wait until 05 holiday season, but DH's family was traveling from Washington State. We decided with the way Michigan weather is so unpredictable we better aim for when we had the least chance of a blizzard.

[rainbowtreat]

We had always talked about getting married. He asked me a couple of days before Valentine's Day of 2005. We started really planning the wedding about May of that year. We are gettign married June 10, 2006. So I guess a year and about 4 months of being engaged.

[ikkin510]

We got engaged on October 6,2005 and are getting married October 7, 2006. A year and a day. I would have liked it soon, the less time I have to spend in the stress of planning the better!!! But that's ok. I'm happy anyway. It will be easy to remember the date of the engagement with it being the day before the wedding. (I'm horrible with dates!!)

[andysgirl07]

We were engaged March 30, 2005 and we're getting married May 12, 2007. I'm graduating college in May. Plus we wanted some time to save up some extra money since I don't have a job (yet).

[Kacie_bride]

I got the big space off, but now I have to see if I can get my signature back on without messing everything up again!

[Kacie_bride]

I am graduating in December of this year and then getting married 2 weeks later. Actually I was supposed to graduate in August, but one of my classes got cancelled. It is a good thing my wedding wasn't scheduled for December 16th or I would have probably just not walked. But that would be kinda sad for me to have worked my booty off for so many years and not walk. Besides that I really want to hear cum laude after my name and if I don't walk I wont ever hear it.

[WebLady]

I am all for long engagements ... DH and I were engaged for at least a couple of years. (though not really by choice ;)) We had talked about getting married for a while ... I don't think I ever got the 'real' proposal.

I think a year or so is a good amount of time for an engagement ... gives you time to get over the 'awe' and be 'sure' and gives you time to plan the wedding.

[CindySue]

Brian proposed the 1st time (without the ring) August 19, 2005. He proposed again (with ring) on my birthday October 1st. We are getting married May 13, 2006 and I had started planning before he gave me an engagement ring so I guess our engagement will be almost 9 months.

[Kacie_bride]

Let me tell you, I have been planning my wedding for years (in my head). I was and am the typical girl who had big dreams about my wedding. Now it is all coming into place. I am so excited about planning, but I hope since it is 10 months (but almost 9 and some change away) that I wont be all planned by October and have nothing to do.

[CindySue]

Let me tell you, I have been planning my wedding for years (in my head). I was and am the typical girl who had big dreams about my wedding. Now it is all coming into place. I am so excited about planning, but I hope since it is 10 months (but almost 9 and some change away) that I wont be all planned by October and have nothing to do.

Kacie......make a timeline or use a checklist. I got all gung ho and now I have 2 1/2 months left and only 4 things left to do. Everything but the marriage license could be done in one weekend. I have to wait until less than 30 but more than 3 days before my date to get the license. Becuase I dont have much to keep me busy, Im going nuts. Heck....I decided on my invitations last week and had them printed, cut, and mounted in 2 hours yesterday. I havent addressed the envelopes yet because Im scared I might mail them before its time. I should have spaced things out more, but since I didnt have a year to plan (like all the books tell you to), I thought I was behind.

[Kacie_bride]

I've looked at the check lists and actually I'm pretty much on target. But it still seems like I've done so much already. But the list makers I'm sure know more than me! Besides that we need the time to stretch the money out some. However, since our wedding is only 5 days after Christmas I don't want it to get too hectic. Defiantely by October I want everything all in line except the marriage license of course.

[CindySue]

Mine being so small, there was a lot on the checklist that I didnt need. Or wouldnt be using. I guess that also has a lot to do with why Im finishing up so quick.

[usahgrad]

Jason and I were engaged just before Christmas 2004 (I think the date was December 16, but I don't really remember for sure...:bbredface: ). We'll be getting married on May 13, 2006, so that makes our engagement about a year and a half, minus some change. We took a vacation together in January of 2005, and I kept joking about running off and getting married. If it wasn't for my mother and his mother, we probably would have. So that would have made our engagement a bit shorter. I have heard the longer the engagement the longer the marriage will last, but then I've also heard, the longer the engagement the shorter the marriage will last. So I don't think it really matters how long you're engaged. There's a lady I work with who has been engaged for SIX YEARS! I couldn't believe it. Her gorgeous engagement ring is really more of a promise ring at that point, but whatever floats your boat and makes you happy, and she seems happy.

[Valmai]

Jamie propsed Dec 25 2005 and we are getting married Feb 16 2007 but thats only 'cos we wanted to get married at that time of year for the weather. On a different note tho my ex and i were engaged for 21 years built a house, had 2 children, but we never did get married!! xxx

[Kacie_bride]

There is no way I would be engaged for 6 years. But I agree, whatever makes you happy.

[CindySue]

There is no way I would be engaged for 6 years. But I agree, whatever makes you happy.
I can understand how it happens, especially if you are living together. You talk about getting married, youre gonna wait until this or that happens, and life just gets in the way. You get comfortable with the status quo. Then youve been together so long without being married, you no longer see any reason for it.

[WebLady]

I can understand how it happens, especially if you are living together. You talk about getting married, youre gonna wait until this or that happens, and life just gets in the way. You get comfortable with the status quo. Then youve been together so long without being married, you no longer see any reason for it.

That is sort of what happened with us ... except I still wanted to be married and was beginning to wonder if my beau felt the same. When things were right we finally did it and I couldn't be happier :D :wub:

[Kacie_bride]

I worked with a lady once that lived with her boyfriend for five or six years. They had both been married before. She had wanted him to marry her for several years. He said he was never going to get married again and that it didn't matter if they were married or not, but it really bothered her. Well...finally in December he asked her to marry him. They got married in January at a simple, but beautiful and elegant ceremony at their new house they bought. I was so happy for her, she really deserved that.

[CindySue]

I worked with a lady once that lived with her boyfriend for five or six years. They had both been married before. She had wanted him to marry her for several years. He said he was never going to get married again and that it didn't matter if they were married or not, but it really bothered her. Well...finally in December he asked her to marry him. They got married in January at a simple, but beautiful and elegant ceremony at their new house they bought. I was so happy for her, she really deserved that.

Before Brian and i met, we both had said we were never getting married again - EVER. Then we got together and could see ourselves married to eachother. My family doesnt say anything but his family likes to tease him about saying it!

[shawnsgirl]

okay lets count here.....we got engaged febuary 14 th 2006 (officially) and we're getting married august 18 th 2007 so I guess its going to be 1 year and 6 months...Didn't really want a long enagement more than one year but my best freind gets married this summer, my uncle is getting married in 2006, and my couisn is getting married in early 2007 so had to work around all those too!! LOL

[RebeccaW]

Joe and I got engaged on June 12, 2002 and we are getting married may 6th 2006 so it will be almost 4 years

[bnd94]

There is no way I would be engaged for 6 years. But I agree, whatever makes you happy.

We will be engaged almost 9 years before we get married. But I was only 18 then and personally felt that I was too young. So time went by and we were both happy so we left it at that. To me it is just a piece of paper, in our minds we have been married for 12 years. I think the only reason we are serious about it now is because we want to start a family and want to be married first. Some people can meet someone and want to be married right off, I guess I am not one of those people :D

[Kacie_bride]

If I would have gotten engaged at 18 I probably would have waited longer or if I didn't have the religous beliefs that I do. I feel that you should married before living together, and we've been living together for nearly 3 years, so I'm a big hyprocrite. Way to stick to my guns right! But I want to make it right in mine and my family's eyes, but that is not the only reason I want to get married. Even if we didn't live together we would be getting married now. It's the right time for us. We love each other and want to spend the rest of our lives together.

[Shawna Bride]

We got engaged Feb. 6th 2005 and we're getting married April 8th, 2006. So a year, 2 months a 2 days. I'd suggest to any brides to have a shorter engagement, ours was too long.

[countrygirl]

Josh and I were engaged on Feb 11th this year, and we are gettng married Nov 4th this year. For me, that's some fast planning!!!