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| Aurora, IL, USA | 02/29/2008 |

5 months!

well jeff and i knew each other about 3 years before we were dating, then only dating about a year before he proposed

3 1/2 years! And longer if I count the days we were still friends. =)

Scott and I had been dating 1 1/2 years before he proposed officially, but we've been planning the wedding since we were together for months!

my FH and I started dating in Dec 2003...got engaged....April 2004...get married Mar 2008...

a year and 9 months...our 3 year anniversary is march 21st!

We dated for about two and a half years. We've been friends for longer though.

we had been together for 4 years and 9months when he proposed!!!

We dated for 3 yrs before he proposed. I was 16 when we met. On the day we get married we will have been engaged for 4 yrs- together for 7 1/2. Yeah..we defiantly took our time.

10 years!! (and im only 27 now!!)

3 years

We've been together for 9 years before we got engaged. I wanted to be set in my career first and then I decided to go to law school so we wanted to wait and let me get settled first. We've talked about getting married years ago but last year October we decided it was time. He actually said he was READY so it all went down from there.

When we went on our first date (3 1/2 years ago), L.L. told me that he knew we'd grow old together. That in itself gave me chills. We talked about marriage, & he acknowledged me as his "wifey" well before he made the proposal official on this past Christmas Eve, 2007. Our 4 year anniversary is July 10, 2008. Our wedding date is March 14, 2009.

My fiance and I were together 7 1/2 years and have now been engaged almost 2 years!!! Our engagedment date was 4/5/06. We're FINALLY going to tie the knot 5/3/08! :)

only a year and a half

our 5 year anniversary will be Oct 3rd the wedding will be october 3rd 2009 which will be our 6 year anniversary!

3 years and 1 month and by the time we get marrried it'll ne 4 1/2 years

we were together 9 months when Joe proposed. I was shocked, but soo happy.

Dating 3 years with 1 1/2 years of engagement.

Pete and I dated two and a half years before he proposed, but we started living together after we had only dated 10 months.

dated for just over 5 years before he proposed. and we'll have been together for almost 6 wen we get married :)

15 yrs and 2 children!! He proposed to me Dec 10/07 and we met Sept 13/93!! Well worth the wait though:)

I have known Kevin since I was 15 years old we dated for 9 months and then he proposed and then 9 months later (June) we will be married.

We were good friends for 3 years before we started dating and he proposed 2 months before our 3 years of dating.

10 years! so it was a long time coming!!!!

5 years!

Jason proposed after 5 years together and I'm so glad we didn't have a quickie wedding when I got pregnant. Now my sweetheart little girl can be my mini bridesmaid.

4 years and 8 months!

Four Years in this May!!!!

Five years

Patrick and I have been dating for two years and he just proposed on leap day (Feb. 29th) we're in Chicago as well. Any tips on good bridal shops in the city?

We dated for almost 3 years before we became engaged. But we were best friends for 2 years before we even started dating! :)

We were only a year and 4 months into our relationship when he asked... but we talked about it months before then. We knew right away...

2 years for me or so. ^_^

My fiance and I dated for 2 years 7 months before we got engaged. !!! Dating... 12/04 moved in together 7/06 and got engaged 5/07

Started dating in December of 2002, patiently waited for 4 years, then started putting the fire under his butt this last year and we were engaged November 2007. the wedding is june 6, 2009.

I have known James since I was 12 yrs old! We met at a camp so we have been friends for years. We started dating when I was 16 and dated for almost 4 years before he proposed, and have only been engaged for 2 months.

We started dating February 2006, moved in together in April 2006 and got engaged December 2006. Our wedding is September 13, 2008.

we were together for over three years...i knew he was going to be my husband after the first date :O)

It's been six years together till he finally realized i was the one!! LOL.

3.5 years

I think we broke a record here! We met on Nov 2000 (working together) Our first kiss was Feb 9th 2001 and he proposed March 3rd 2001, barely 3 weeks!!!! We got married (Civil) on Oct 2001. Our big wedding is set for Jan 2009, and we are as much in love as we were the first day!!! Talk about love at first sight!

5 years! about time!

Nathan and I will be dating for 9 years before we get married. We are waiting to get school out of the way.

When Jarett and I get married next year we will be on our 12 year and we will only be 24...Yah it's about time...

Ryan and I were dating for almost one year when he proposed on Valentines Day this year. :)

Jeremy proposed 2 days before our 1 yr anniversary. We started talking in November 06, started dating in March of 07, moved in together officialy in July 07 and proposed on March 07 2008. We will be married on the 4th of July 2009.

We started dating on Dec. 31, 2005 and he proposed July 22, 2007!!!

Friends for about 4 months before,we started dating, we were dating for 2 months and 2 days when he proposed - we knew 2 weeks there was noone else we'd rather be with. He asked my parents out of respect, and then proposed! The wedding isnt until June 2010 however...sooo long. lol I'll survive im sure.

We were dating 6 yrs before he proposed it'll be almost 7yrs when we get married

By the time we get married (in exactly 1 year) we will have been together for 7 1/2 years. He proposed at 6 years. We started dating when I was 16 and he was 18, though! WAAAAYYYY to early to get married then!

almost 2 years..but we'll have been together for 4 years before the actual wedding.

We dated for 4 years before we got engaged and when we get married (August 8, 2008) we'll have been together for almost 5 years.

we started dating 10-05-07
got engaged *but talked a/b it before* 12-23-07
wedding date 5-23-09

- Aquaintences for a couple years
- Dated for 8 months before getting engaged
- Will have been a couple for 13 months when he moves in
- Will have been together for 2 years and 3 months at the time of the wedding.

: )

I've been with my guy now since I was 15 except for about a year and 1/2 when we were 16 and broke up. So...technically...if you just count since we've been back together, it would have been 6 years this past May long (i'm in Canada so it was the weekend of August 16-19).

8 years!

A little over 3 years, but have known each other literally forever.

about a year and a half when he proposed, but we knew each other for three, and then started living with each other right after we got engaged. we've been engaged for almost two years, and will be getting married just before our 4 year mark.

We've been three years.

I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who was dating less than a year when the proposal happened. We had been dating for 6 1/2 months, but he told me he had the ring at 4 months! We knew right away, and we don't have any reason to wait.

Well we were dating 3 months when he proposed the first time, 2 years the second time, and 6 years the third time!!! I said yes eventually...but it took me a while...hey I wanted to be 100% sure!
:)

8 Years and when we get married we'll have been together for 10 years!

Two years and a little over a month.

Steven and I had our first date on January 18, 2008.......he proposed on February 14, 2008.....3 1/2 weeks later!!! Our wedding date is March 7, 2009. God's plan is perfect!!!!

We met on October 5 2007 and we are getting married on October 4th 2008. It will be one year almost to the day.

Too Long.. It will be 8 1/2 years when we get married. Started dating Dec.2000 and had our daughter Dec 2003 got engaged Dec 2007 and will get married May 2009

1 year : )

It will be 7 years on 8/25/08. He proposed at 6 and a half years. We will be getting married next May

After 3 years and on our wedding day next year it will 4 years to the date minus one day!

We were actually dating for just over 2 years before he proposed. We knew each other in high school 10 years ago but weren't friends and didn't date. Re-met again and that was that!

1 year :)

we started dating when we were sixteen, we got engaged at nineteen, we will be 21 for the wedding

We had been dating for 2 1/2 years when he proposed. By the time we get married we will have been together for 5 1/2 years.

6 years =)

Just over 2 years when Scott proposed...we will be together almost 3 when we get married. "YEAH"

I have been dating a year.

Alan and were seeing each other 5 months before he proposed! It feels right it's just ment to be.

Two years, but and felt like that was long !!

6 months. He proposed to me many times before that, but at almost exactly 6 months from our first date is when I finally said Yes!

4 1/2 years!! we were both in college when dating!!! Currently 5 years (it will be 7 years when we get married)!!!!

we were dating for only about 10 months when Jason popped the big question! That is why I was sooo surprised!

We have been together since we were in 10th grade! Then we were engaged on Dec 22nd 2006. And our wedding will be in October of 2009. So total we have been together for 7 years! We are both 23 though, so we're young :)

um... all of about a month! lol.

8 YEARS!!!!!!!!! It was about time! :)

we met, he moved in after 8 months , another 8 months later we got engaged, we will be together 2 years and 7 months when we get married.

2 months

6 months!!!!! Crazy I know!

friends for a year and dating for 1,5 year

We've been dating for 8 1/2 years

Brian and I were together for 4 years before he popped the question.

We met October,11 and we went to city hall November 9th

now we are planning our big day for next year and we are

expecting our first child in June of 09, our wedding is August.

4 1/2 years before he proposed

it will be 6 years the day we get married!

we're waiting until we are both finished with college and (hopefully) have jobs

I've been seeing someone for about two weeks and he asked me to marry him this past Saturday 10/25/08. Both sets of parents are completely excited and happy for us. I found out recenlty that his father asked him one morning (w/0o knowing we were engaged already) if 'This girl would be the mother of his grandkids' and my guy told his father yes. I've been proposed to about 20 something times, engaged once and now I have found the one that will never end and I know that based on compariosons fromt he past and simple life signs and signals.

Anyone in my position who is not getting the support from their family or friends that they may have expected, just remember that what people say and do is a projection of their own personal worl, not yours. this means that if you are walking down the street and someone says that you are stupid, it does not mean it is true, it means they are projecting their negative garbage onto you and you can choose to ignore it an drepell it and keep walking never to look back. That said, everything is in the eye of the beholder and people are alloeed to have their own opinions and it doe snto have to effect your personal life plans. Because in the end, youa re in charge of your own life, no one else is. With that, your control lies with in the actions you yourself take in response to situations delt to you. If someone comes down on you for your choices then 'choose' to let it go in one ear and right out the other as we as people so this all the time to one another why should it be handled any differently when it is the rest of your life at hand? the determination for your future is ultmately your decision to make and the outcome lies in your hands alone. I always listen to myself and no one else regardless of the end outcome because no matter what has happened on the other end of my personal choice life decision, life always went on and new opportunites came about in all areas of my life as they always do.

Almost 3 years, minus 2 months. We started dating my senior year in high school.

3 years 9 months before he proposed (although we called each other hubby and wifey...then 1 1/2 engagement...for a total of a little over 5 years when we are hitched.

We had been dating for 5 years and 5 months when he proposed ( we started dating when I was a senior and he was a junior in high school). By the time we get married we will have been together for 7 years and 4 months. Now we gotta start from one again :(

he proposed on our 7 year anniversary, we'll get married the same month of our 8th.

We'd been together a little over 5 years when we got engaged and we are getting married ON our 6th anniversary!

10 Months!!!! But we knew a lot sooner that this was perfect for both of us!!!

4 1/2 years!!! We started dating when I was a freshman and he was a senior! =)

we were 3 weeks short of 1 year of dating when he proposed. :) We knew pretty early that we were going to get married (second date!) We're getting married Sept. 12, 2009. (7 months from today!)

We dated for 8 long years. We met at 18 and wanted to get our lives and careers on track before we took the plunge. If I had it my way we would have been married 2 years ago but I'm glad we waited because it seems like now is the perfect time.

Me and my man were together for 4 years before we got married (highschool sweethearts). It was absolutely perfect we had our reception at the ottawa weddings place called strathmere and I dont regret getting married that early at all I wish we had gotten married 2 years before

2 years

proposed on our 3rd year anniversary...

IT WILL BE FIVE YEARS IN MAY!

I met my fiance when we were about 13 and 14... we got together when I was 18 and he was 19. We will be married next year, I will be 26 and he will be 27. I'd say we were officially together for about 8 years before the wedding, but liked eachother since the day we locked eyes on eachother ;) I always knew I'd marry him <3

Well my FH and I met but we were both seeing other people, so we just became friends. We were friends for about 4 months and then we realized that we really wanted to be with each other. So we broke up with our significant others and began dating ...kinda shady I know, but you can't fight love.

We dated for about a year and a bit before he purposed... but he's from the US and I'm from canada so it was difficult... we decided to live together for 6 months since we hadn't spent more than 3 weeks at a time together... (mind you, we talked for 6-8 hours a day on the phone haha) so we lived together for 6 months in canada while i was going to university, then he went back to WI and later that summer he came and purposed.... we're now living together... so I dont know how long you would consider us actually 'dating' for since we were only together maybe 7 months in total.

we were dating for two years and two months exactly!! before he proposed.

We were together almost 6 years. But...we started dating when we were 17. And by the time we get married, we will have been engaged for 3 1/2 years. We move slow! :)

5yrs and 8 months.

2 years, he proposed on our 2 year anniversary!

We've had been dating 6 years 2 months before we got engaged, we have been engaged for 1 month and 13 days :)

8 years!! goin on 9 before we're even married. High school sweethearts<3

3 months short of 5 years. We're high school sweethearts, and wanted to wait until we were done university before getting married.

2 years

almost five years, we will be married 6 years to the day that we met.

officially 5 months but we also dated in high school for a year and half and were friends before that for 2 years. We lost touch in between for 10 years.

8 YEARS!!!!!!!!!!!

we had been dating for 5 years & 8 months before we got engaged. We'll be getting married a little over a month after our 7 year anniversary!

knew each other for like 3 years before we started dating and then we were together for 4 years before he proposed.

Almost 3 years!

we started dating in August 2002 and got engaged in April 2008. So 5 years, 8 months. We are getting married a month after our 7 year dating anniversary

7 1/2 years. He was my high school sweetheart =)

We were together exactly 1 year! He proposed on our 1st Anniversary

13years and 4 kids later we are getting married on May 15, 2010. We started dating May 15, 1996. I love him more and more everyday! He is great.

we dated a lil over 3 years before he asked me! =]

a little over 2 years

Wow, I think I might be the shortest one on here....
We started dating on May first and he asked me to marry him on May 29th

So....

29 days.

Exactly 1 year.

1 year and 10 months!!

I have the newest record and its going to be hard to break! We got engaged after a week!!! It was truely love at first site and we are a perfect match!!! The wedding is set for December 11th, 2010. We will be announcing our engagement at Christmas time when I get my other ring.

My fiance and I have been together since high school, we got engaged on our 7 year anniversary. It will have been over 8 years by the time we get married.

we were dating for 9 years and 2 months before he proposed

Hi, im new here...

Nate and I have known eachother for 2 almost 2 1/2 years but we were only dating 5 months before he proposed. :)

me and my fh was dating 6 years when we got engaged! we been living together for 4 years now! Were planning to get married july 2011...cant wait!!

We were just friends for over 10 years and then finally smartened up and realized we're actually really good for each other lol. We dated for about a year i think before Mark proposed. Around there.

We knew each-other fir a year but once we started dating we got engaged in 4 months.

4 months. 25 years ago my parents met in May, got together in June and were engaged in October. My FH kept up the tradition. We met on May 25, together on June 3rd lol, and engaged on Oct 3rd (my 20th birthday)... However we are waiting 2 years to get married.

2.5 months..... And I was he one who proposed lol.... At a mcdonalds in Myrtle Beach lol not a fairy tale but I works for us hahaha

We are highschool sweethearts and are 23 and 24.
My FH and I have been together for 7 years. He proposed at 6 1/2 and we will be married at 7 1/2.

3 years baby!

8 months im 28 and he is 26

May 15th will make it a year since we've been dating and he asked about 3 months ago

We are high school sweethearts - started dating the end of our freshman year for five years and i had a midlife crisis at 20 and decided to break up with him - ugh! what was i thinking lol?! after about 8 months we got back together and dated for 3 months before he popped the question.

5 months. :)

we just got engaged about a month ago and next week we will be celebrating 7 years together. By the time the wedding rolls around it will be a little over 9 years together but then again I will only be 26 so we didn't see the sense in rushing. weddings are not cheep lol

We met April 2007 and were engaged August 2008....we just knew and we knew right away too, like 3 months in. I just made him wait at least a year so my parents didnt snap their cookies lol.

12 years and I'm 27yrs old... High School sweethearts

Almost 5 1/2 years.......

2 years, and on our 2 year anniversary he proposed :)

6 years!

4 years

We dated for 7 years before we got engaged. Started dating in HS. We'll be married on our 9th, maybe 10th year anniversary.

2 years and 1 month!

1.5 months. We just knew it was *right*.

6 years and 9 months! High school Sweethearts

3 months for us!!!

we dated for 5 1/2 years before he proposed to me!

6 months

6 years he proposed to me christmas eve 2010 :)

10 years !!

We dated for 10 months, hence the reason we are getting married next year in October.! We just hit our 1 year "dating" anniversary and now planning a wedding! So exciting. So thankful that such a beautiful man found me!

We got engaged on our 9 year anniversary. We have been together since he was 21 and I was 20...Funny thing is when we tell people that they always ask how many kids do we have, and they are shocked when we tell them that we have no children. Plan on having at least 2 before im 37.