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How long between your first date and your wedding vows?

  • 29-11-2013 03:27PM
    #1
    emmabrighton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 582 ✭✭✭emmabrighton


    Since we are poking into other peoples business today...

    How much time did you wait between your first date and your wedding vows? And, if you have reached that stage yet, between your wedding vows and getting divorced/separated?

    I have been going out with my baby daddy for 11 years now… I am pretty sure there must be people who have met their wife/husband, dated, got married and gotten divorced in that time… and probably dated and married again, if I am honest...

    sorry, don't know how to do that poll


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  • #2
    jasonb
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    First date in Nov. 2002 and got married in Sep. 2008, so just less than 6 years...

    J.


  • #3
    D1stant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,806 ✭✭✭D1stant


    emmabrighton wrote: »
    Since we are poking into other peoples business today...

    How much time did you wait between your first date and your wedding vows? And, if you have reached that stage yet, between your wedding vows and getting divorced/separated?

    I have been going out with my baby daddy for 11 years now… I am pretty sure there must be people who have met their wife/husband, dated, got married and gotten divorced in that time… and probably dated and married again, if I am honest...

    Your WHAT?


  • #4
    whiskeyman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    emmabrighton wrote: »
    I have been going out with my baby daddy for 11 years now

    Dafuq?


  • #5
    Geuze
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    3 yrs from first date to wedding.


  • #6
    Dolbert
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    Eight and a half years


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  • #7
    emmabrighton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 582 ✭✭✭emmabrighton


    D1stant wrote: »
    Your WHAT?

    Wait... is that not what the kids are calling it these days???


  • #8
    SCOOP 64
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    6 years form first date to wedding, don't rush into things.


  • #9
    krudler
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    emmabrighton wrote: »
    Wait... is that not what the kids are calling it these days???

    If you're on a daytime US chat show where the baby daddy is delighted he's not actually the baby daddy after the test yeah.


  • #10
    martinedwards
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    never heard of such a thing!

    4 yrs 3 months, but we had been pals for about 8 years before we started dating


  • #11
    silly
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    Aug 06 to Sept 11 - So, 5 yrs.


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  • #12
    zl1whqvjs75cdy
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    Going out with herself 6 years this year. Marriage is a long long way off. HAven't even thought about it.


  • #13
    SEPT 23 1989
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    engaged 14 years:D


  • #14
    [Deleted User]
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    About three and a half years.


  • #15
    Fratton Fred
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    First time, thirty.months first date to wedding vows, which she forgot five years later. The divorce took two years. So it was just over nine years between first date.and decree absolute.

    Second time, six years and one baby between first date and wedding. Married for seven years now. Second time around I married my best friend.


  • #16
    drunkmonkey
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    donkeyoaty0099 wrote: »
    Going out with herself 6 years this year. Marriage is a long long way off. HAven't even thought about it.

    You mightn't have but she already knows what her dress is like and what color flowers are on the wedding tables. :D


  • #17
    weisses
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    8 Years ....and only for tax reasons


  • #18
    xXxkorixXx
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    3 years from first date to the time he made an honest woman out of me


  • #19
    sunflower27
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    drunkmonkey wrote: »
    You mightn't have but she already knows what her dress is like and what color flowers are on the wedding tables. :D

    You know, not all women are obsessed with getting married and what the dress/flowers will be like. It is a myth that all women want to marry their partners.


  • #20
    Dravokivich
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    #N/A


  • #21
    Borboletinha
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    I've been married twice. Both times I was dating a little over a year. I like being married although I do understand why some people wouldn't. I also second only marrying your best friend!


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  • #22
    emmabrighton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 582 ✭✭✭emmabrighton


    sunflower27 wrote: »
    You know, not all women are obsessed with getting married and what the dress/flowers will be like. It is a myth that all women want to marry their partners.

    True, I am financially better off the way things are... wait, that makes me sound like a skanger... It wasn't meant to sound like that... lol


  • #23
    jcrowbar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 343 ✭✭jcrowbar


    First met - August 17th 2012

    Wedding - August 17th 2013


  • #24
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    About four years between first meeting and marriage.

    Married nearly 7 years.


  • #25
    [Deleted User]
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    I was at a wedding last week where the bride and groom first met a little over two years ago. It was disgusting how in love there were :pac:


  • #26
    Hoop66
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,200 ✭✭✭Hoop66


    Dec '99 to May '03.

    So that's errrm.....3-and-a-half years. 6 months of that was long-distance relationship with the memsahb in Dublin and me in London. I really enjoyed popping over here every other weekend.

    Now I'm bleedin' stuck here!






    I should point out, in case herself reads this, that we are ten years happily married!


  • #27
    Atletico56
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    9 years, didn't even bother having sex our wedding night.


  • #28
    OnTheCouch
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    I suspect this is going to strongly depend on the age the people in the couple were when they got together, or more specifically the woman, if she intends going down the traditional courting, wedding, children timeline.

    If two teenagers get together at 16, if they make it work, they may not feel the need to get married until ten years later, or perhaps even longer.

    However, should the two get together at 30, (not to mention 35) then it's a whole different ball game and you often see shotgun weddings from 1-3 years after they first start dating.

    I would imagine for most people it's around 5-6 years however, especially if they meet in the 25-30 bracket, when they have time to get to know each other without having any biological urges to settle down and start a family the day after.

    Of course, bear in mind, these estimates are based on the assumption that the couple is of similar age. With age gaps, there are totally different factors that have to be taken into consideration.


  • #29
    caustic 1
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    first date 19 June 1987
    married 03 Oct 1992
    Still married.


  • #30
    Popinjay
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    October 07 to November 14


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  • #31
    krudler
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    jcrowbar wrote: »
    First met - August 17th 2012

    Wedding - August 17th 2013

    Jesus, there's a half eaten bag of pasta in my press I've known longer.


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