Long Engagements

We got engaged in August and are waiting until 2021 for a couple reasons. Mostly, I am in vet school at the moment and we want a summer wedding. Next summer is too soon and would be stressful to plan during the school year, and the following summer is my clinical rotations. Summer of 2021 can’t come soon enough though, but the plus side is low-stress planning and more time to save up!

Just got engaged in September. Weddings not until September 2020. Wanted to get engaged now because my fiancé is in the military. Gives us time to gather money and get approval from his Sargent.

Engaged June 2018, will be getting married October 2020. We are hoping to buy a house in 2019 and my fiance wanted to be done with school before getting married. Also, I'm planning on paying for the wedding myself so it gives me plenty of time to save before he graduates in the spring of 2020.

We get married next August, but our engagement length is 23mos. I really wanted to get married on the day we officially became a couple & had we done it in a yr it would’ve been a Thursday. I also didn’t work over a yr so that I could focus on my Master’s & an internship...having a longer engagement helped us save for a dream wedding. I could’ve did the court house but FH wanted to go big or go home lol

My fiance and I will have been engaged for 3years comes February. We originally were supposed to get married last June. We had our venue booked, DJ, and photographer but my moms breast cancer came back and so we put things off to help her out. Thankfully she was cleared a few months later (cancer patients though aren't considered cancer free though until a certain time frame). She is healthy and now we are back fo starting from square one. We're still getting married at the same location, but different garden then we had originally chose (the only difference is that there is so reception area so we need to figure that out now, but that's okay because I an in love with the ceremony site!). We have our photographer and news ro contact the DJ to see if he's available for our new date.

I got engaged in August 2018 and will not be getting married until fall 2020 because I am traveling the whole time for work, so we wanted to wait until I was done traveling and settled down before getting married. We have spent the majority of our relationship long distance, so it's just easier to wait so we don't have to be apart while married. It also gives plenty of time to plan the wedding since I won't be having a planner. I really want a fall wedding and my FH was wanting to buy a house when I get back to the area so we can get settled a few months before the wedding.

We got engaged Christmas 2016 but our wedding isn’t until 2019.
We didn’t want it to be like that, but with his dad passing, us moving, and getting new jobs, there was no way we could've had the wedding we wanted sooner.
Sometimes life just has other plans.

Mainly to save up some $$$ and to have time to plan what we want. I just finished grad school and I'm looking for work so were planning for mid 2020.

I had a 21 month engagement. Wanted to wait till we were older (I was 19 when I got engaged), wanted to wait till we both graduated, wanted to give my mom a chance to save up money

We just got engaged this weekend but we're not getting married until October 2020. My fiance had some serious medical issues this year and we want to pay off the medical bills and have ample time to save for the wedding.

We had an 20 month engagement because we wanted the date! Our anniversary fell on a Saturday a year and a half after we got engaged so we decided to take our time planning and save up. We would have gotten married sooner but the date was perfect and gave us time to plan without stress and save up for what we wanted!

We just got engaged in August. We just bought a house this year so we want to save money up for our dream wedding. We always said we wanted an October wedding since we both like fall. Unfortunately our anniversary is in November and does not fall on a Saturday within the next 2 years so October of 2020 it is. My MomMom keeps saying we're waiting too long but she didn't just buy a house. Plus we've been together for 7 years now.

We will be engaged for just shy of two years. Our reason for the long engagement was primarily that we chose a venue that books fast and far in advance. Nothing within a year would be available. We really wanted a December wedding so we decided to wait on it. Also, the longer engagement allowed us to enjoy being engaged, save a little extra money and minimize the stress.

We got married on sept 2017 and didn’t have a lot of money for this reason we had a court wedding. We are having our vow renewal on 2025 reason behind it we want to finish school, work for 2 years on our professions and then start planing a wedding. We will graduate on 2021 and will start planing on 2024. We are already married so no rush

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What school are you at? My fiancee is halfway through clinicals right now at Tufts. I'm planning by myself for now until Boards are over - and graduation is over too probably.

View Quoted Comment I’m at Cornell, so not too far away from Tufts! That definitely sounds stressful! I’m still a second year a good distance from my clinical year and NAVLE boards, but I work in the hospital with the clinical students and see how tough it can be for them! Hopefully once the NAVLE is over your fiancé will have some more time! Since our wedding is the month after graduation, I’m hoping to get as much as possible out of the way early on. Then once clinics hit, I know my fiancé will be going through something similar as you are now!

View Quoted Comment That's an awesome school! She did her undergrad there but decided that having family nearby (she grew up in MA and we are halfway between her parents now) and the state covering part of tuition made Tufts a much better choice for Vet school. Pre-planning is definitely a good idea, we got the big vision stuff out of the way before clinics so I'm mostly doing the vendor hiring now, and I had my heart set on a winter wedding so we can take care of the details after graduation together. But I am sure once the NAVLE is finally done she will have more time - its the final 5 week push right now! She also put all the core rotations in the beginning so has only had a couple short electives and no vacation so far - a lot of her classmates spread them out more and have had more electives already which is helpful and definitely something I would suggest if you can manage it with your scheduling. Elective hours are much nicer and it is what you really want to be doing so they are more engaging as well and so leave you with more energy to do other things in the evening.

I am a DIY bride and money comes into play for sure with why we’re waiting. But also I have anxiety disorder so trying to plan a wedding in a year or less is just too much pressure on me even with the help of family and friends.

I only just got engaged but we won't be getting married until January 2021, which is still early than we had (sort of) originally planned. FH will be starting PA school January 2019 and will be in classes and then clinical 5 days a week, all day, with very little time in between terms. He does have a brief break for the holidays so we're having the wedding at the end of that, just before he starts his last term of school. I'm just impatient lol I'll be doing my last term of grad school myself in 2020, graduating in August, so I'm saving myself a little extra time so I don't have to get completely overwhelmed with work, classes, internship, AND wedding planning.

I'm waiting until 2020 because then my fiance and I will be together 2.5 years. We both have been married before. Hes in the process of a divorce atm. We just want to make sure and not rush.