no long engagement here!

Go for it. I think it can be done and i know there are some girls on here that have also had short engagements.

mine was 11 months. I don't think that is particulalry long but it's not short either.

Do what's best for you and your FH. You just gotta jump right into planning, no waiting.

I think its perfectly fine! I know plenty of people who have planned their weddings in 6 months or so! Thats what I wanted to do but FH waited too long to pop the quetion and it was already summer had to wait a whole year!

It can TOTALLY be done.

One of my friends got engaged in March and married in June. I wasn't able to attend, as it was across the country and I already had travel plans for that weekend ~ that's the only downside that people don't have as much notice to mark their calendars. But honestly we will have a 17 month engagement and people still can't make it. Plus I've been antsy and crazy half the time just wanting the day to get here.

My friend with the short engagement said it was awesome b/c she didn't second guess herself. She just made decisions and went with it. She picked 3 things she really cared about: invitations, cake, and flowers. She focused on making those exactly what she wanted and just made quick practical decisions on the rest. She loved her wedding.

FWIW we had a long engagement b/c FMIL had just passed away when FH proposed to me. He had been planning a proposal for months for that specific day and then she got sick really quickly and it turned everyone's world upside down. So he wanted to wait a year out of respect for her before having a big party, and then it was December and we didn't want anybody travelling around the holidays, and we came up with April thinking we might (hopefully!) have a nice warm sunny day.

OMG I just re-read this and it sounded so dramatic, I'm sorry! Just meant to say that if it hadn't been for that happening, we would have been right there with you.

Happy planning!!!

That makes me feel better! I know we can do it, I've got lots of family and friends willing to help along the way.

Oh Kris I'm sorry! I hope that you have a beautiful sunny day! We picked September because our weather here can be a little out of whack. I want it to be warm but not too hot and really hoping/praying for no rain!

I say go for it! Our engagement will be 5 months.

Our engagement was 9 months and it was perfect -- we might've made it quicker, but we had a DW and wanted to give people time to plan and cross over years when most people's vacation resets. We also bought a house and fixed up and rented another one during that time, so I didn't actually book any of our vendors until 5-6 months out although we got married in the off season. Like Kris said, you can't ponder each and every detail for a long time, but I think I liked that better anyway.

I hope you and Kris both have beautiful warm sunny days

Ours will be about 3.5 months. ;]

I dont think an engagement has to be long.

Its just a matter of how much time you guys will need/want to take to get everything ready.

the more time i would imagine would be less stressful though lol

My sister got engaged in Feb and was married in Aug! And we DIYed everything! So it can definitely be done.

By the time our wedding comes around, FH and I will have been engaged just over two years. We are sooo done with it. We just want the wedding to be here already! But we did it for financial reasons as well as me having to get my greencard, because I'm Canadian, so it was a whole 'nother process before we got married.

We wanted to have a short engagement too- but clearly that did not work out, haha!

My friends were engaged in December and married in August and they had no stress because people didn't have time to nag them about their choices!

Nothing mattered because they were so happy- and it was adorable

Ours is just over a year, we got engaged in the fall and I wanted a fall wedding, so it was a matter of timing. I definitely think it can be done in less time but one advantage of having more time (for us) is more time to save money.

But planning wise, there is no reason why this has to take a year.

I believe that 6 1/2 months is plenty of time to plan a wedding. No need for a long engagement. Good luck!

My first engagement was 7 months. The only reason my second one was longer was that we figured that if we had to get married in Massachusetts, we might as well get married in the fall and take advantage of the beauty of the New England fall. That meant that our engagement had to be either 2 months or 14 months, and having it 14 gave us more time to plan and save up.

Our engagement will be 8 months. However, because we are getting married out of state, we weren't able to book our venue (and secure our date) until almost 3 months afterwards. So in reality, we only had a little over 5 months to really plan. The only thing I was able to do before we had our venue and date was buy my dress.

I wish we had a little longer honestly. I'm feeling the stress and like I am nowhere ready for this wedding to happen next month. However I didn't want a "long" engagement and my brother was already planning on getting married in September of this year. I didn't want a wedding close to his (I'm talking multiple months in between) but I didn't want a winter wedding, so it was either have an 8 month engagement or a 20 month engagement. If I had to choose all over, I probably would still choose the 8 month engagement because 20 would be too long...actually no, if I had to choose all over again, we would have eloped and had a very quiet simple ceremony with only family

Our engagement was 6 months, but we planned the wedding in about 4. You need to be a little more flexible than folks who have more time, but it's totally doable. And it has some advantages :-)

I don't have issues with short engagements, assuming the relationship was long enough. You talk about not wanting to wait to get married- but I don't get that. If you already love and are committed to each other, what's going to change besides a piece of paper?

Short engagements are fine. Just make sure that wedding planning and the rushed financial side of it don't place too much stress on the relationship.

Our engagement was 6 months long. and we had no problem with it... We didn't have a big wedding.

It can be done. We are getting married 10 months and 3 weeks from the day he proposed. We are 3 months out and have everything planned. Heck we had everything planned 5 months out. Just make sure, as Meghan B. said, that rushing the financial side doesn't take a toll on the relationship.

Congrats, go for it! We had a 9 month engagement and I could have planned it all in 6 months no problem. I have 5 weeks to go and everything is already done. I think most people with longer engagements just end up with the "hurry up and get here" feeling! I know I have!! lol I just want to be married to my FH!!

If your an organized person, and don't pick right in the middle of peak season, then you should have no problems getting what you want.