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Add Store Registries. Cash Funds. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Reasons for having longer engagement: Are you still in school? Are you long-distance or living abroad? Do you have commitments that are presently keeping you busy and you need time to plan? Are you saving money for the wedding to pay for it upfront? Most importantly, are you still getting to know each other?

One study found that couples who dated for more than two years consistently scored higher on marital satisfaction than those who dated less than two years. However, there is a growing love for shorter engagements. Premarital Class!

Image from Unsplash. Was This Helpful? Did this blog give you the information you were looking for and give you tools to help improve your relationships? Over two years. We got engaged in August of and married in May of My husband was in grad school so we wanted to wait until he was done.

Engaged in the fall, married the following fall. We basically got engaged to notify everyone that wedding planning was beginning. He proposed at the end of the year and then mentioned we'd save a lot of money on taxes if we got married before the new year. We saved a lot of money on taxes.

We've been married going on 11 years. Depends on how you look at it, but less than a year regardless: Booked the wedding in February. Got officially engaged in March. Got legally married in August. Had our wedding in January. He proposed right around Christmas and we got married the following February. It wasn't too long or too short. It felt perfect! This was 15 years ago in the midwest. Our Hawaiian honeymoon cost more which we put on credit cards.