Quick path to engaged

I didn't. but have friends that did. My best friend got engaged at 8 months, and her 2 year wedding anniversary was yesterday.

I'm the opposite, if there's a slow path to getting engaged i was on it lol we were dating 12.5 years before he proposed

My sister did - six weeks dating and were married at 12 weeks.

Engaged at 1.5 years. But shit, we bought our home at 9 months....

My sister got engaged 3 times but never wanted to plan anything and always put off the wedding before eventually breaking up with the guys. But when she met her husband, they dated a month before deciding to get married. They have been married over 10 years now. There is no magical number of years of dating for a happy marriage.

I don't think you should read too much into it. I know plenty of couples who were together over 5 years, got married and divorced a year later and others who were together 6 months before getting engaged and are happily married.

I think age is a much more important factor.

We dated for 11 months and our engagement is 11 months. Moved in together at 3.5 months and bought a house a year later. Sometimes I feel like we're doing things on a weird timeline or "out of order", but we're happy so it works for us

We were engaged at 11 months, but we had purchased a home after dating 6 months. We have both dated enough people to know when it's good, so I don't really overthink the length of the relationship. Living together also showed us how compatible we were early on.

My FH proposed 6 months into our relationship. We are having a 2 year engagement. When you know, you know. I knew 2 months in that he was going to be the man I marry.

We're getting married 18 months after we started dating.

My parents got married 11 months after they started dating and just celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary.

FH and I were together around five months when we started discussing marriage and he proposed right around seven months. We will be together a little under a year and a half when we get married. I don't put too much stock in timelines - my parents knew each other three months before MARRIAGE and are together 35 years later and I have known multiple people who dated for 5+ years and were divorced less than a year after getting married. For me, it is more about how committed you are to the marriage, and each other, than the time you have spent dating, especially when you are older and have screened out more than a few potential mates haha. I was just curious to find the other short-termers

My brother and his wife moved fairly quickly. Were living together within 6 months and were married just after dating for a year. They were both in their mid to late 20s.

FH and I had been dating for just under a year and a half when we got engaged. I think a lot depends on your age, maturity level, and circumstances. FH and I have known each other since we were 11, and we'll both be 27 at the time of the wedding.

Ha, yea ok lol my fiancé and I moved in together before we were official and were pregnant within months of the beginning of our relationship. He proposed while I was pregnant and again after the baby was here. You're fine girl!

FH and I were living together 3 weeks after meeting. I was pregnant after 2 years of dating. We now have a 3 year old and have been together almost 6 years. We just got engaged December 2016. Getting married August 2017. We didn't do anything in order lol.

Also, my mom and stepdad knew each other for only 3 months before getting married. They've been together for almost 15 years now.

FH and I were friends for about 3 years before we started dating, we moved in together 4 months after becoming "official" and got engaged about 4.5 years after that.

My FSIL got married within 6 weeks of meeting her SO, I think their celebrating their 12th anniversary this year!

This is a great thread! And FH and I definitely got engaged in less than two years (we had been together 1 year and 10 days on the day we got engaged). I believe love is organic and doesn't need to adhere to specific timelines. If you know, then you know. But I also agreed with @Sara&L, in that age and financial stability contribute a lot to timing. FH and I are both in our 30s, we've both dated a good amount of people and FH was even married once before (he was 18 and it was basically a shotgun wedding that ended up lasting for about a year). He and I also make decent money, he owns his own house. We fell in love quick and we knew right away that we had found our person in one another. We moved in after two months of knowing each other, and we had already been playfully joking about meeting up at city hall to get married during our lunch break since the first month. My last relationship lasted 5 years and the one before that was two. I had discussed marriage in those past two relationships, but it never felt right, because those relationships weren't with the right person, and beyond that we were young, clueless, and broke. Every relationship is unique and falls on its own timeline. Sometimes things take years to line up and sometimes it take months. My dad proposed to my mom after 6 months of dating and they were married by 9 months. They will be celebrating their 32nd wedding anniversary next month (haha I was born a little less than 9 months after they got married ), and they have the most beautiful love I have known, aside from what I share with my FH.

Engaged after dating 2.5 years. Will be married after dating a total of 4 years :-)

I was engaged when I was younger and so thankful we didn't get married. We were together 5 years before we broke up. Then I was in two more long term relationships and still didn't want to get married. Met my FH Jan 2016, moved in together Aug 2016, engaged Nov 2016, will be married July 2017. I look back sometimes and think wow, that was fast. Especially considering how slow I have gone in the past relationships. But like they say.... when you know you know. I can't wait to marry him!

I knew someone that got engaged just barely over the year mark. But they had been "best friends" for years (it wasn't a secret, trust me lol), so they went ahead and married. So far they seem to be doing just fine. No magic number needed

We got engaged about six weeks into our relationship. Now we've been together for almost four years. When you know, you know.

My parents got married less than a year and a half after they met, and they just celebrated 34 years

We dated for 11 months before he proposed.

My cousin dated her husband of 15 years for a total of 3 dates before he proposed to her. They married 2 months later. Sometimes when you know, you know.