How long did you wait after getting engaged to have your wedding and why?

Engaged december 2017 and wedding is October 2019! We wanted to get married debt free so thats why we are waiting! 😊

I’ve been waiting to marry him for what feels like forever. Had he of not proposed I would have just rounded him up and gone to city hall! But since he has proposed and since we are moving into our condo in October, we felt that waiting one year after moving in will be a good time to get married.

We got engaged on Christmas and will be married in May 2019. So 17 month long engagement!

We got engaged last year in October (after dating for 2 years) and will be getting married on Halloween of 2020. Need time to save up some money and I want to finish school before getting married.

We did a one year engagement! We got engaged in the fall and I have always wanted a fall wedding. We had been planning for marriage ahead of getting engaged and knew we didn’t want a really long engagement so the timing worked for us. I also plan events for a living so the idea of doing it within that timeline wasn’t a stress factor for me.

We’re waiting two years because I have family in England that I want to come. Our wedding will end up being exactly two years and a week from our engagement. I’m super impatient though!

When we got engaged (6 months ago), we had been dating nearly 8 years, living together for just over 4 years, and we're both (now) in our 30s. We're getting married approximately 20.5 months after the proposal because we wanted a summer wedding but summer 2018 would have been too soon for us to plan it all properly (for us).

It will be an almost two year engagement by the time we get married. We wanted time to save money and also FH can't take any time off this summer so we just settled on next summer. I personally like having the longer engagement. Less stress.

We had always discussed having a spring/early summer wedding as our birthdays and christmas are all in the fall.

My FH knew if he proposed in the winter, I'd be trying to jam in the wedding for that time, so he proposed in June 2017. That left us a year to plan it

My fiancé and I got engaged in February, and are likely going to wed late next year. Ultimately there's nothing wrong with getting married sooner (or later). I suppose it depends on whether you're ready to both personally and financially!

He proposed Christmas eve and we both wanted a June - September wedding. I felt it was too soon to pick this year so we went with June 2019. It's less stressful and gives us more time.

It will be just shy of 13 months when we get married. We had been together just over 5 years when we got engaged, and it will be 6 years by the wedding. We got engaged end of December 2017, Summer of 2018 was too soon, Summer of 2019 was too far away. So we are getting married in January (once we decided on off-season, we picked a date that didn't interfere with anything else, plus it lined up perfectly with the honeymoon cruise we wanted to take).

Some people wait longer to save money, or because they aren't "in a rush"... my parents are paying for the wedding, otherwise we'd be waiting years, or eloping. And we've been together long enough, we don't need any more time.

I did my wedding 9 months after my engagement.

We chose a short engagement because we had been dating for several years, and knew I would be able to plan it in that short amount of time. We also budgeted out what we could afford in that amount of time and it worked for what we wanted. I was the first one to get married in my family, but I didn't consider that when I thought of my planning. The only concern was if I could get my dress in time, but if you go shortly after booking your venue and date, you'll be set! (My dress came in 4 months so plenty of time for alterations and finding accessories.)

We did a three and a half year engagement for a few reasons: 1. I had a particular date in mind and that was the next time that it was on a Saturday. 2. We wanted to save up and be able to get what we really wanted. 3. We hadn't been dating very long when we got engaged and more for my parents' sake we wanted to show we weren't rushing into anything.

We will be 10 months from engagement to marriage. We wanted a summer wedding and decided that although we're paying for almost everything, if we buckled down and worked a bit harder we could make it happen. It hasn't been easy but we're almost there - under the 4 month mark today! We're both mid 30s and didn't want to wait another summer. And this way we can start trying to have a family sooner than later as well

We got engaged January 2018, and are getting married in September. Both of us agreed that we didn’t want a long engagement. FH probably would have gone for an even shorter engagement and a spring wedding, but that was out of the question for me due to seasonal allergies. Autumn is my favourite season, so I’m really excited about a September wedding.

We are getting married on a Friday instead of a Saturday since the photographer I wanted was already booked every Saturday in September. I’m actually glad that we decided on the Friday, as most vendors in my area had been booked up on the Saturday months before we got engaged.

The only downside of a short engagement is that I feel like I’m behind schedule even before I got started, and I’ve been so rushed that I haven’t been able to just relax and enjoy the feeling of being engaged at all.

Our engagement was November 6th, 2017 (My 30th Birthday) and originally we were thinking summer of 2019 because we didn't want to rush and we wanted to save money. I also didn't think that any venues would have our date available for 2018 as most venues book up so fast for the current year. But due to his father's health (hes not doing well) we thought it would be best to do it sooner rather than later in the event that his father wouldn't make it another year. We didn't want to look back and say we could have done it but didn't. And when we asked our venue if that date was available this year.... there we go. our date was decided for August 31st, 2018 instead of August 30th, 2019. That makes it a total of 11 Months of engagement.

We got engaged December 2016 and got married September 2017 (roughly 9 months). I had originally thought of getting married in Spring 2018 but my husband convinced me that there was no way I would be able to handle the stress of planning the wedding for over a year. I didn't think at first it was possible to organize our wedding in 9 months but we ended up booking a few vendors really quickly and already had our venue so it was just easier to plan everything else. We chose September as we wanted nice weather but didn't want to be sweltering (Summer) or too cold (Spring).

I don't think I would have been able to be stressed for 12-18 months with planning! I would have gone insane!!!

View quoted message Yeah I'm close with my family members. Also the second oldest but the first to get married. So wanted to share with the people who love and support us.

Our engagement will be just over 6 months. I wanted an October wedding and we decided that waiting until 2019 was too long - I would've also gone crazy with the planning having so much time, the stress would've killed me - also we've been living together for 2 years now so there was no point in waiting. He had initially suggested getting married in June (we got engaged in March) but I convinced him to at least let me have my fall wedding.

Our first thought was to just kind of elope really, hence June, but then after we thought about it a bit more we realized our families would be a tad upset and so we agreed on a very small complete wedding. We're the first to talk about marriage in our families, and I'm the oldest from my generation in my family, so it seems it's actually a big deal - I never would've guessed truth be told.

We got engaged February of this year and we will be getting married September 2019. I wanted to get married in 2019 because that will be our 10 year anniversary of being together. September 2019 will be my mom and stepdads 20 year Anniversary, and it is also my in laws 40th year Anniversary. As much as I wanted a summer wedding, September was to special to pass up!

View quoted message Kind of felt like eloping at the beginning but I wanted to share the event especially with my future mother in law. I didn't realize how expensive weddings are until I started planning.

Got engaged Oct 2016 getting married this Sept. Waited this long just for the sake of saving money, as we knew weddings are expensive (just didn't realize how much).

I was actually down to elope but FH wants the big celebration so that's why we waited.

We got engaged in July 2017 and we’re getting married May 2018, so that’s ten months. We didn’t want to wait super long...in fact, among our friend group we’ve had the longest engagement. A couple of our friends got married after being engaged eight months, and another couple we knew had a three month engagement! I have no idea how they were able to pull it together so fast! Every couple is different, and it’s completely possible to plan a really nice wedding in a short period of time. Do what is right for you and your significant other.

We’ve been engaged since Jan 2016 and we just started planning this year. We both wanted to wait to be done school and have enough time to save up!

Engaged.: may 2, 2015
wedding date: aug. 18, 2018.

reasons:
- cultural (8 is lucky in Asian culture)
- money saving

We got engaged on Valentine's Day. It's not going to be a big wedding, both 2nd marriage; small wedding party and under 100 guests. We planned wedding around his work vacation time and knew we wanted a fall wedding, so that's how we picked mid October. We're already living together so didn't see a point in a long engagement.

We will have been engaged for 22 months by the time our wedding comes around. We needed to save up for our wedding, so we needed the time. We weren’t willing to go into debt and $20 000 is a lot of money and we didn’t want to dip into our savings because we are saving up for our first home. Plus with us working full time and then we started up our own company... we’ve been busy! Haha.

10 months. I wanted a summer wedding since alot of my friends/family are in another province. We had originally talked about getting married last summer, so waiting until next summer seemed like way too long! Plus, I had always thought 8 months to 1 year was an ideal engagement length.

We got engaged April 29, 2018 (on our anniversary) and getting married September 7, 2019. Because of the distance (live in Alberta, getting married in Qc), we couldn’t imagine putting a wedding together in less than 18 months! Now that we have more time, we can really sit down and talk about what we want without feeling rushed. Plus from a distance, we can only do site visits when we go home, which isn’t often (so expensive!!!).

We set the date based on when we felt we would be ready financially, and we also picked a wintery date I save money on the venue! I graduate from University this coming June, and he's been working full time for a year now, so we figure November 16,2018 was a good enough time to give me your get a job and for us to figure the rest of our lives out!

We got "Officially" ring engaged at the end of October 2017. But we actually got engaged Canada Day weekend 2017. We kept it quiet from his side for a while because his sister AND brother both got married last year and we thought it would be rude to step on their toes.

I totally agree. I would never be able to wait 2 years +!!!! I'm barely handling a year and 4 months!! Good on you for doing 8 months

View quoted message Ahh thats so cool!
I was planning on proposing on our anniversary (October 30th) but we didn't have time off, so it turned into two weeks before. Had the same thing as you tho, and thought it would be a nice idea to get married on out actual anniversary, but he preferred some date when the weather was nice in summer as well haha ^^ can't complain indeed!