The Question
How long did you date before you got engaged and how long was your engagement?
The Answers
We dated 6.5 months before getting engaged, and will be engaged for 5.5 months.
— Catherine Calabrese
We dated for 8 years before we got engaged!
— Amy Wolf
Mark and I met and started dating in November 1999 in college. The courtship has been great! I knew he was the one for me when he supported me whenever I had a series of liver transplants two years into our relationship! He would drive up from law school in Champaign, IL. to my hospital in Chicago every weekend to keep me company and tell me how much he loved me. After getting through those rough times, we believe that it has made our love for each other, stronger. I am healthy now, and we are planning to have a beautiful downtown Chicago wedding in October 2007. Mark and I dated for 6 years and 2 months until he proposed while we were on our vacation in Charleston, SC. Our engagement will be1 year and 8 months by the time we say our loving vows!
— Kerri Koscik
We were dating for about 2 years and 2 months and we will be engaged for 2 years and a month. We are having a long engagement because I am still in college and we are waiting until I graduate.
— Laura Schwarz
We started dating April 2002 and got engaged August 2005. So, 3 and a half years, almost. Our wedding is scheduled for August 2006 so we will be nearing 4 and a half years together by the time we are married.
— Alexandra Goodman
Jim and I dated for 7 years and 8 months before we got engaged. We started dating in high school then all through college. We both graduated, got jobs and settled, then got engaged. Our engagement ended up being 1 year and 5 months because of the time off from work. I am a teacher and we wanted to get married around Novemeber, and we got engaged in June.
— Lauren Reilly
We met at work but didn’t start dating till 10 months later. We dated for 1 1/2 years before he proposed. Our engagement is going to be 10 months long.
— Roseann Marquez
We were dating for two months when he asked me to marry him and of course I said no! I didn’t think he was serious. Two months later we got matching tattoos of our names…I know it sounds nuts…but lucky for me, my brother and him have the same name so I knew I was in the clear if something went wrong…:0) jk. We decided two months after that to get engaged and that was three years ago, we wanted to wait until I finished school. So it was the longest engagement ever, but nevertheless wonderful and now in less than six weeks we’ll be in marital bliss!
— Jadon Poindexter