JFF...Quickest Engagement...

Mine is quite the opposite. We dated for 8 years before we married, then waited another 7 years before we had kids. We don't jump into anything.

My wife and I met in March. We were engaged in April. We married in July. From our first meeting, which wasn't even a date, to engagement was 6 weeks. We were going to get married in June when college classes ended, but we couldn't get our wedding invitations quick enough (This was before the internet).

Our first child was born 6 days before our 1st anniversary. We were married on the 28th of July and have made it a game to see who can wish the other "Happy Anniversary" first on the 28th of each month. It means we celebrate our marriage 12 times each year and have since the first month.

We celebrated our 39th anniversary in July 2012.

Good luck to you and yours.

P.S. MzKitty, tell us your quickie engagement story, please.

My story isn't that fast either. My husband and I were engaged 3 months after we met. Engagement ring and meeting each other's parents, who both asked if it was a friendship ring, after 5 months. Then attended his cousin's New Year's eve wedding, and planned ours for exactly a year later. (So engaged after 3 months, but engagement lasted 15 months.)

My first date with my husband was October 5th 2002, and we got engaged on November 20th 2002, and were married on December 31st 2002. So 11 weeks from start to finish, and we are approaching our 10 year anniversary. I should mention at he was no stranger. He were school mates from Kindergarten thru high school! Just never dated.

My parents were engaged on their second date after knowing each other for only 2 weeks. Then they were married two 1/2 months after that because he was moving away to college and she wanted to go with him (she was 19 and he was 21). 2 months after that she got pregnant with their first child. Talk about a whirlwind! It's crazy and I wouldn't do it, but my parents have been happily married for 37 years and love each other so much. It was a little rough along the way at times, but that is typical for any marriage in my experience, and they have always struggled financially which they probably would have anyways because of their poor money management. But they are happy and my childhood was full of happiness, security, and full of love.

A guy my mom wanted me to date (her friends son) got engaged after 2 weeks and married 6 weeks later. for me we dated for just barely under a year and got married just barely under 6 months later.

its not that we didnt know eachother or date very long before we were engaged.. it was just that we werent even considering the idea at the time.. ive been friends with my fiance since i was a sophmore in highschool. We started dating over 4 years ago, we've been living together about 4 years, never had any immediate plans to get married. then about 3 weeks after finding out i was pregnant he comes home with a ring! .. still no immedate plans to get married... we're thinking about just going to the justice of the peace and having them marry us before the new year. -i refuse to have an actual wedding until im skinny again!

My friends' father met his wife and in 4 days they decided it was divine intervention or something and were planning a wedding. They were married not long after. I forget the timeframe, but I'm not sure even six months passed between his late wife's passing and his wedding. They both still had kids at home.

Mine's certainly not that quick, but it's certainly as irrational given the surrounding circumstances. My brother started dating a girl in early March. By July 4, they were already planning the wedding (gave my other brother the date so he wouldn't pick that date for HIS wedding), then officially proposed in August. Normally, I'd say fine and dandy, but my brother's fiance has a daughter from a previous relationship, and so, for the sake of the little girl, I wish they had taken a little more time to make sure of everything first.

met in Oct, moved in in Jan, married in August. Not sure exactly when we got engaged...let me look it up. May 25th. It was just after the Alias season 4 finale...every week I drove with a friend to a town about half an hour away to watch Alias with another friend and I was totally freaking out about the finale when my husband popped the question. Not sure exactly what he said, but we've been happily married for 7 years.:-)

Shortest time between meet & actual proposal = 1 week.

Shortest time between meet & stated intention to marry me if I liked him and his family & his family approved, and my father gave his blessing (actual, that's how he phrased asking me out) was 1 mouthy comment. (On my part). Lol, he really had a thing about strong / challenging women.

Honestly... 15 years later, looking back, I probably would have been very happy married to either of them.

I'd always heard : Marry in haste, repent at leisure... But around the block a few times, now... I think there's a 'thing' that happens with like individuals. Not just sexual attraction, but actual 'clicking' / recognizing in another person a yes/no at some base level. My exhusband, I tried first not to date, then put off marrying him for as long as I could 3 years, almost), and tried to break up several times. I was in love with him, so that didn't make sense at the time. Now? I think I should have trusted my gut.

Those 2 fast, lightning proposals? (Second I got a real proposal after a few weeks). I've kept in touch. They are GOOD men. Who share the same kinds of values, at their core, as I do. Which is why I think we could have been happy.

Also, 15 years later, I've come to realize how RARE that 'click' is. I meet hundreds of people a year. I click, in a heartbeat, maybe once every 5 years, if that. I've learned to TRUST that instant judge, when it happens, as rare as it is. It's different than yum, or pant, or respect, or get on smashing with. It's this solid, crazy 'click'. And it's a gift, a pure gift, to get to spend time with someone (platonic or romantic) that I click with. I become a better version of myself.

Granted, its a limited sample, in quick proposals :). But it's what I have to go off of.

My hubby and I were together for over 15 years before we got married. I had never been married and was only going to do it once, so I waited until I was in my mid-40's to get married. We celebrated our 8th wedding anniversary on October 1st!

Met in April 2007, he asked my dad for my hand in August 2007 and we were married in September 2007. Son was born in August of 2008. We just celebrated 5 year anniversary last weekend.

A friend who had been divorced a while came to visit me, well, his ex wife was my friend, he was sort of a left over I couldn't get rid of.

I mentioned we were going to a nearby little town for a church for a ward conference so he decided to go with us. He met a lady there, this was a Sunday, they talked all day after church, he went home, took off the next day and went back to visit more with her, and they were married by Friday. I didn't even know about the whole thing until he called to tell me thank you for introducing me to my new wife.....WHAT? I had no time to even warn her that he was nuts.

They divorced a few weeks later due to him being an a** and mean to her pre-school age child.

I truly think that sometimes it's much quicker and cleaner to just have an affair/hot nasty fling and get it out of their system instead of bringing kids and other family memebers in to it.