How long were you together before you got married?
My DH and I dated 4 months before we got engaged and married 10 months after we started dating. People found it so weird that we would get married so quick....but 10 years and we are still together. I often wonder about other marriages.

We were together for 7 1/2 years before we got married. But we started dating in high school.

DH and I were only dating a month and a half before he proposed, and we got married 8 months after that. We've been married for 8 years now.

However, we met when we were in middle school, and were friends for over 10 years before we started dating, so we didn't have a getting-to-know-you period when we started dating.

We were together 5 1/2 years before we got married. (We didn't get engaged.) But you have to take into account that I was only 17 when we started dating, so we still got married very young (22 for me, 25 for him).

DH and I have a bit of an odd situation..
He's in the Marine Corps, we marry young LOL

I met DH as a friend when I was 15, moved from Ohio to California with him when I was 17, graduated high school there, and we got married the day after my 18th birthday. We've been married almost 4 years.

I'm around so many military wives all the time it's so different when I realize that NORMAL people don't get married when they're still kids. *sigh* To be normal... :P

ETA: DH was 21 when we got married.

DH and I were engaged 7 months after we started dating and we were married 5 months after that. We actually got married 1 year and 1 week after we "re-met" at a friends wedding. I had known him years before and we had a lot of the same friends. We were 27 and 28 when we got married and we've been happily married almost 5 years.

Sometimes you just know. I think DH would have proposed sooner if he hadn't been finishing up graduate school.

We also didn't live in the same city until we were married, so phone and gas bills were high that year!

I dated my husband for 10 months before getting married. I really think marriage is a roll of the dice when it comes to who makes it and who doesn't. Whether you've dated for a long period of time or a much shorter period, it's really up to the couple to make it work. My husband was 30 and I was 24 when we got married. I think we were ready to marry at that time. It's been a wonderful adventure (not always good, but we worked it out) for the past 23 years!!!

Dh and I started dating July , 2001 and married Feb of 93. My parent were married 3 months before they married and had a terrific marriage until dad passed away a few years ago.

I think when you know, you know.

My first husband and I knew each other for nearly 15 years, lived together for 2 1/2, then got married when he was 30 and I was 27. It was a no-go, and I pretty much knew it while waltzing down the aisle.

My second husband and I met online accidentally, dated as best we could for 2 years given that he was in Australia and I was in the USA, spending a grand total of maybe 6 weeks in each others' actual company before tying the knot. It didn't matter. We knew immediately after we met face-to-face for the first time, and the rest was just the formality of the immigration process. That marriage would have gone on forever had it not been for his untimely death just over 2 years ago.

Grab life with both hands, no utensils -- you know when it's right, and you never know if it will last!!!

Rae

Dh and I dated for a year, during that time we talked about marriage but we knew we didn't have a chance financially. He was doing odd jobs while I was working for Burger King. We broke up but still kept in touch while we dated others.
Four years later he started going to my church and we became best friends, hanging out practically everyday. This went on for 6 months and it slowly became something more until one day he told me that we should just get married. We were both in the right place financially...so why not. We figured we would get married 2 months later. It was mid January, 2001 that we decided we should get married and we set our wedding day for March 3rd of that year. We drove out to Vegas with all our family and got married in a small chapel for $150.00. This coming March, we'll be married for 9 yrs.
I also get the weird comments when I tell people about our story but hey look at how long we've been together. Every year that passes we've become closer then the year before.

DH and I met while we were both in the process of divorce. We became friends/dated and helped each other get through the process. Both were pretty un-trusting of the opposite sex.
It took 22 months before we married and that was 33 years ago.

My hubby & I were together for 2 years before we got engaged, engaged for a year & March 8th will have been married for 2 years. So, 5 years together total. We lived together for 1 year before we were engaged.

I've always believed that you know when you know...I knew within 2 months that Noah would be the man I married...I was right!

I met DH at a dance when I was 18 and he was 22. He proposed a year and a half later and we made plans for a wedding but called it off when we found out his mom had cancer (she lived across the country from us). Time went on and after 4-1/2 years of dating, I was getting antsy and I think DH was perfectly ok with leaving things just as they were. One day I summoned up the courage to have "the talk". We were married 2 weeks later in a small but intimate ceremony with a small group of friends and family present. Even tho we had been dating for over 4 years and spent the last 2 with me staying at his place on weekends, we did alot of fighting those first few newlywed months as we learned to live with each other on a full time basis. Worked that out, we get along great and will be married 33 years in March.

Some people meet and quickly marry and it works out because they found the one they wanted to be with. Some people marry in haste and repent in leisure and I've known others who met when they were young, dated for 10 years or more and then either called it off before the wedding or didn't make it.

I'm not sure that I'd marry someone 2 weeks after I met them but I sincerely believe that one's chances of making a successful marriage depend on good, open communications, honesty, accepting each other for what you are and not trying to change too much about the other and most importantly realizing that as you travel life's road, you ARE going to change - your interests, your priorities and life does a good job of poking you in the back every once in a while. IF you can both be flexible, then you can make it. DH and I have had some good times and some bad ones but there's no other person I'd rather be with.

~Me and my hubby met When I was 15 he was 17 We got married when I was 17 & he was 19 ~Our 17th anniversary is Next Month ~February 25th 2010.
(Of course we are now 34 & 36 LOL)~