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How long will you be enjoying your engagement?

PrincessNatalie

PrincessNatalie

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Hey Girls,

Just wondering: Once engaged how much time do you plan on spending between the proposal and your wedding?

I am probably going to take 14 - 18 months between. I could definately make it faster but I want to enjoy being engaged, and not be in mad planing mode the entire time :)

Also what month do you like the best? At the moment I like April, because in Brisbane Oz its excellent weather, any earlier is too hot, any later is too cold, and its also far enough away from October the dreaded 5 birthdays/1 anniversary month.

I am sure this is one thing everyone has thought about :P
 
I'm no longer a LIW but I got engaged back in January and I'm not getting married until July 2011. FI and I decided on a winter day (between uni semesters) prior to the engagement.

April is definitely the perfect time to get married in Brisbane and I look forward to seeing your gorgeous Autumn photos :bigsmile: I'm hoping for one of those perfect sunny winter days we get, so fingers crossed...
 
well right now we are looking at June 2012, because I will be in school...so it would be tough to do during the academic year. I would prefer April/May since it is really hot but I think June will work out well :) So that is quite some time from now!
 
We will have a shorter engagement, probably in the 9-10 month range, since we have already been together so long and there is no point in waiting any longer to get married.

As for the wedding date, we have already narrowed it down to two choices, so it will either be June 10 (2nd choice) or July 15 (1st choice) of next year. I'm very excited. :D
 
We just got engaged and are looking to marry May 2012 so close to a 2yr wait for marriage!
 
We will probably be engaged next month, and we are planning the wedding for September 2011. So, exactly one year.
 
Like you Natalie, I also like the idea of enjoying being engaged before I got involved so much in planning the wedding.

I just got engaged 2 weeks ago and will be having an official engagement party with family Jan/Feb next year.
and we have agreed that wedding will be in 1.5-2 years time and we are in no hurry to get married.
The most most important thing for me is that he asked :D
 
We will be engaged about 4 months, give or take a few days/weeks, depending on when he proposes. Planning is in full swing. Our wedding date is Jan 1, 2011. We had originally planned for a July wedding, but decided we didn't want to wait that long. We are both students so our honeymoon will be in the summer.
 
We just got engaged and are planning to get married next December. I like the idea of a longer engagement. It's the only time in you life you get to be engaged so I want to enjoy it!
 
No longer an LIW, but there is exactly one year between our proposal and our wedding, since he proposed on our second anniversary and we're getting married on our third anniversary.
 
Well it really depends on when he proposes ;) . But we are probably going to get married in June 2012. Summer of 2011 is a little too soon depending on when we get engaged. And we have a wedding to go to pretty much every weekend already next summer. I'm thinking we will get engaged early next year. Which means that we will have about a 12-17 month engagement. I don't mind it at all and I actually prefer a longer engagement!
 
Engaged August 2009, getting married March 2012.
 
I always thought that I'd want to be engaged for about a year, but lately, all of my recently-married and almost-married friends have been warning me not to let it drag on too long. They're saying that they wished their engagements were shorter, and you don't need more than 10 months or so to plan. They're sick of talking about the wedding and just want to be married already.

Please take this advice as I did, with a grain of salt. My friends and I are all in our late 20s/early 30s. We're out of grad school and settled into our careers. So, our circumstances and perspectives are different.

I don't think there's any "right" answer. Do what feels right to you :)
 
I want to have around a year and a half between engagement and wedding. I think that's plenty of time to plan without stress and just enjoy being engaged :bigsmile:
 
Hopefully we'll get engaged in the next month or so and I'd like to get married next summer. I think between 9-12 months would be my ideal engagement period. I don't want it to drag on too long but want enough time to plan a nice wedding.
 
We should be engaged by the end of the year and I'm thinkng march/April/May time 2012. Plenty of time to save some money for the wedding and for a house.....and also BF and I dislike odd numbers so 2011 is out of the running.
 
I think that we are getting engaged within the next month or so, and we will probably get married next summer - so I guess a bit less than a year. We are actually planning on probably eloping, or else having a small wedding, so it won't be a nightmare to plan and we can change the date if needed. :)
 
im thinking close to a year or a little less. I do not need a whole bunch of time in between personally. I dont want to do it super quick like my sister( 12 weeks) but i dont want to hit the 14 to 16 month range either, even though that would give us more than time to save.
 
267 days, give or take a few!
 
I'm hoping we will be able to save up and plan for a wedding in approximately 1 year. I am hoping we will be engaged within 6 mths (around March 2011).

We both loved the idea of a Fall wedding (our favorite season), preferably first half of November sometime. If we really go along with November, that puts us at 8 months. If the budget works out, that would be ideal for me! :))
 
I'm in no rush, and once again CA gay marriages are on hold, so maybe next year, maybe 2012. I like being engaged :)
 
Around a year and 5 months. We want to get married Feb 2012 in New Orleans, and we aren't sure yet if that's going to work (Mardi Gras season).

I'm also with the posters who don't mind a little bit of a longer engagement since you're only engaged once, and it's already a short period of time. We're also really particular about our wedding date. We aren't too keen on a 2011 date.
 
I'm hoping for an engagement this fall. And I want a summer wedding, so it could be either 2011 or 2012. I'm thinking 2012 to give us time to get settled into a house, so that makes it around a 20 month engagement I guess.
 
Exactly one year.
Engaged 2009, the day after Thanksgiving - getting married 2010, the day after Thanksgiving! :appl:
 
2 years! We got engaged this past July and will get married August 2012!
 
we will have 14 months until our wedding on October 15th, 2011 :))
 
SweetPea-<3 said:
I always thought that I'd want to be engaged for about a year, but lately, all of my recently-married and almost-married friends have been warning me not to let it drag on too long. They're saying that they wished their engagements were shorter, and you don't need more than 10 months or so to plan. They're sick of talking about the wedding and just want to be married already.
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I felt this way by the time my wedding rolled around. I was engaged for a year and six days, and after about nine or ten months, I was ready to just be married! Being engaged was awesome, but I was very, very happy to finally be married and go back to enjoying my normal life with DH.
 
Our engagement will be almost exactly 15 months. Honestly, I know we could have done it sooner and thought about it a few times. I'm not sure what's changed, but that phase only lasted a little while. We're really happy with the date we picked. I love the fact that we have time to, well, take our time! I can try on dresses and know that I still have a few months before I even have to place my order. The only thing we really rushed to do was book our reception. We've been engaged almost a full 5 months and I'm just now getting serious about planning. :lol:
 
:O wedding date twins! My wedding is October 15th, 2011.
I got engaged january 15th this year. So we had about an 22mo wait total, and let me tell ya, the waiting is getting really old at this point. I feel like I can't start planning yet because its so far off, and the buzz of being engaged has pretty much worn off. But then again, I'm not the typical bride to be...
I know some girls who NEEDED the long engagement because of the type of wedding they're planning, and that's just fine. I just feel maybe I'm not one of them:S and thought I was
 
Hopefully not too long. I think the max I would want to wait is 9-10 months, but ideally it would be closer to 6. Or maybe we'll just elope.
 
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