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28 February 2008

How old were you when you got engaged? [More:] Multiples are fine, of course, and this includes any and all broken engagements.

Just curious after mgl's update on the proposal.
If applicable, obviously.
posted by rainbaby 28 February | 14:38
25. Married six months later at the age of 26.
posted by LoriFLA 28 February | 14:40
30.
posted by essexjan 28 February | 14:41
28.
posted by gaspode 28 February | 14:43
Oh, and married a year later.
posted by gaspode 28 February | 14:45
I've never been engaged.
posted by box 28 February | 14:45
41, I think. (We're still engaged, six years later. Things keep coming up.)
posted by bmarkey 28 February | 14:45
I was engaged to Elijah Wood in the 4th grade. He didn't know it, but I was.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 28 February | 14:49
23. Married just a few weeks shy of 25. It didn't seem super young at the time, but now I look back and realize what a baby I was. I'm glad I waited until 30 to start reproducing, though.
posted by jrossi4r 28 February | 14:50
21, 25, and 32. And you know, tomorrow is Leap Day, so maybe by the end of the day I'll add 43. :)
posted by JanetLand 28 February | 14:50
I don't know yet.
posted by Miko 28 February | 14:53
I met my fh at 23 and don't remember ever being engaged....there was no "will you marry me" moment and I didn't have a ring. We just started talking about a wedding somehow. We were married right after I turned 26.
posted by iconomy 28 February | 15:02
When I was in second grade, we were going to throw a wedding for a friend and her dog. The friend backed out, so I decided to marry her dog instead. We made very pretty braided engagement rings out of metallic ribbon. I backed out at the last minute, though. I was superstitious enough to believe that play-acting a wedding would mean that I was somehow spiritually wed to this dog.

Poor dog. He was a very nice golden retriever.
posted by occhiblu 28 February | 15:04
And you know, tomorrow is Leap Day, so maybe by the end of the day I'll add 43. :)

*Jason Castro runs, hides*
posted by essexjan 28 February | 15:04
Oh, that's perfect essexjan!! Paul McCartney better watch out too!!
posted by JanetLand 28 February | 15:07
Dear God, JanetLand. One young enough to be your son, the other old enough to be your father.
posted by essexjan 28 February | 15:09
31. He's 33. We'll turn 32 and 34, respectively, before the wedding though.
posted by misskaz 28 February | 15:10
29, married 10 months later, still 29.

In fact, I'm STILL 29.

That last part's not true.

occhiblu, that sounds like the strange feeling I get when people get married in a theatre or on a stage. Like it's not real. I bothers my little superstitious vestigial islets of langerhan or whatever they are.
posted by rainbaby 28 February | 15:11
I like to run the gamut. :)
posted by JanetLand 28 February | 15:11
I didn't think we were going to have a "will you marry me" moment, because we were already planning the wedding. But he surprised me by pulling the down on one knee trick one beautiful day in West Virginia. It was awesome. And he looked relieved when I said yes!
posted by gaspode 28 February | 15:13
38 years, six months, thirteen days and this morning.
posted by lonefrontranger 28 February | 15:17
42.
posted by chewatadistance 28 February | 15:19
While it wasn't a marriage proposal, I was the one who sort of "proposed." I was 24, he was 33.
posted by BoringPostcards 28 February | 15:26
25.

I was 19 when we started dating...I've now been with her for more than 1/2 my life which I (still) find boggling.
posted by danostuporstar 28 February | 15:29
40. Later to get disengaged.
posted by eekacat 28 February | 15:38
I see how this works. rainbaby gets all our information and sells it to some sleazy marketing company, and she doesn't answer herself...
posted by eekacat 28 February | 15:40
oops somehow missed where she answered.

removing tinfoil hat.
posted by eekacat 28 February | 15:41
First time 18 (that one I broke)...final one 24.
posted by bunnyfire 28 February | 15:45
23.

We met at 18; separated at 32.
posted by Joe Invisible 28 February | 15:49
Wowie, I can actually say, ditto on each point, with jrossi4.
posted by richat 28 February | 15:58
7 and 23. :) Although the second time wasn't so much a proposal as, "I bought you this ring off ebay" a few weeks after we started planning the wedding.
posted by muddgirl 28 February | 16:06
25 and 42.
posted by rocket88 28 February | 16:14
26 and she was 26.
posted by drezdn 28 February | 16:14
32
posted by ramix 28 February | 16:50
I'll find this out later, I assume.
posted by Stewriffic 28 February | 16:54
19. (the only way we could have sex in Catholic Ireland before condoms were legal!)

married at 24.

we're still married 17 years later.
posted by Wilder 28 February | 17:16
Technically, 20, but I knew back in my head that it wasn't going to last. (Guess what, it didn't. Prick.)
posted by sperose 28 February | 17:42
19, married @ 23.

posted by lysdexic 28 February | 18:01
24 and 32
posted by meeshell 28 February | 18:37
Can we keep this thread open so I can answer when it finally happens to me?
(this might take a while...)
posted by casarkos 28 February | 18:48
It freaks me out to see so many 20something responses. I'm turning 20 in April. I cannot imagine getting engaged/married anytime soon.
posted by CitrusFreak12 28 February | 20:33
21. I was married before my next birthday.
posted by Doohickie 28 February | 20:55
CitrusFreak- I couldn't imagine getting married when I was 19. I was 20 when I met Mrs. Doohickie. Just after my 21st birthday, it was time. When the time comes, it's there. That simple.
posted by Doohickie 28 February | 20:56
29. Married at 30. Divorced at 34. However, our total sum relationship was 10 years of living together and that's what I am claiming... otherwise it sounds like I was an idiot.









He was clearly the idiot, though.
posted by Unicorn on the cob 28 February | 21:16
CitrusFreak - Don't worry, I'm with you. At 20, this freaks me the hell out. All of you people, stop it. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS MARRIAGE.
posted by dismas 28 February | 21:21
23 and 35
posted by plinth 28 February | 21:30
18, married a year later at 19. Divorced at 26.
posted by rhapsodie 28 February | 21:37
Six months and one week younger than I am today.
posted by Triode 28 February | 22:15
31 and not technically engaged, although we've had "the talk" and it's just waiting on my buying a ring. Weird, I'm so much less freaked out by it all than I ever thought I'd be.
posted by jtron 28 February | 22:50
33, though it wasn't really an engagement engagement. We got married less than a week later and I turned 34 13 days after the "wedding".

Long story short - it was the only way we could live together in Canada since I was (and still am) a US citizen and the mister is Canadian. I'm still waiting for the real proposal and the real wedding.
posted by deborah 29 February | 01:30
Old enough to know better ... but around 33/34 or so. Bad idea (for me).
posted by Claudia_SF 29 February | 01:40
28, but it wasn't exactly an engagement - we'd been talking about it for ages and then decided we were going to do something about it. Telling our friends and family we were getting married meant that we got off our arses and did something about it. There was no proposal and no ring, and I'm fine with that, though some people are a bit perplexed by it.

Married at 29 (he was and is 39).
posted by altolinguistic 29 February | 05:10
16, 17 and 20. I never married them but kept the rings. :P
posted by dabitch 29 February | 05:30
There was no proposal and no ring, and I'm fine with that, though some people are a bit perplexed by it.

Same for me for the ring bit, and there were people that actually told me straight up "you're not engaged if you don't have a ring". Idiots.
posted by gaspode 29 February | 09:13
27 and 37.
posted by octothorpe 29 February | 17:11
22 for the first time. Lasted eight years.

34 for the second. And he proposed without a ring, and I didn't care. The only person who made me feel strange about that was one girlfriend. But this is a woman who dictated the size, shape, and color grade of her diamond, so she was a unique case.



posted by redvixen 29 February | 20:12
Yeah, redvixen, rings aren't worth shit in my eyes. My ex-husband bought me diamonds but gave me nothing but sadness.
posted by essexjan 29 February | 21:12
32
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