Married after 10.5 months (engaged after less than 5 months). We celebrated our 20th last summer.
Met in July 2012, started a relationship in May 2013, got engaged in October 2013 and then married in September 2014.
We were both in our mid 30s, very happy with each other and ready to get married, so there was no need to drag things out too much.
Got together after knowing each other 2 years, then another four and a half till the wedding, so 6.5 total. Been married for 29 years.
But sometimes those “long courtships” aren’t actually long courtships. They’re a function of practicalities and preferences. I was 17 when we met and 19 when we got together. The wedding took another four and a half years so I could finish college, get a job and plan and finance a wedding. We made the decision to get married long before we did actually did - if we had met and gotten together at 25 and wanted a quick wedding at city hall we might have married within a year. And if we had gotten together when I was 16,and I wanted to finish college and grad school and have a summer wedding in the NYC area , it might have been ten years.*
- My daughter booked her venue in January 2016 for June 2017- and that was the only date available in the spring or summer (probably a cancellation)
We met in April 1971 and married in June 1973. Still married.
My parents met before 1925 and married in 1944. However when they first met my mom was no older than 4 and my dad 7. They were neighbors. It’s likely they met before that, but that is the first story I recall about them together. They never dated until the 1940s, though.
Met in 1973, age 15. Started dating. Married in 1981. Seemed like an appropriate length of time had passed.
Met in college in 1982. Married in 1986. Still married.
My husband and I met in college, but we were just friendly acquaintances with sporadic contact for many years. We developed an intense friendship after 9 years of just sort of seeing each other around, and being in the same social group on and off-- we were in a gaming group on a D&D quest with several other people for a while. Then we became “friends with benefits” for a few months, before admitting that we both wanted more. About four months later his lease ran out, and he moved in to the house I owned. A few months after that, we started planning the wedding, for about six months later.
It’ll be 16 years in March.
Met in May. I proposed six weeks later, we were married in November. That’s November 1980, so it’s been 36 years.
I actually knew my first wife longer before we married, and that lasted barely three years. Go figure.
We met during two-a-days my junior year of college. Stayed friends/friends with benefits until we graduated together 3 years later. Lost touch until we met back up at a wedding 5 years later. Dated for a two years then got married. We’ve been married for 3 years now. I went with 5-10 even though we knew eachother for slightly over a decade by like a month on our wedding day.
Met in 1995 in San Francisco.
Married in 2000 in Tokyo.
Celebrating 17 years on January 27th.
I’m getting married Saturday, so I’m counting myself.
3.5 years.
I voted 6 to 12 months because it was 9 months when we moved in together.
Like other gay US dopers, it’s only been an option recently. It was actually 19 years before we got married.
----Oh, Congratulations, RickJay! I wish you and your fiance bliss!
10 months, married 46 years.
I said 6-12 months, but that’s after the time we started dating. We had met briefly a couple of times before that. And after counting again it was actually more than 12 months, about 14 months from when we went on our first date. We had planned on marrying about 10 months out but then let it drag out longer before we actually did.
I’m not sure just what to answer but the last was probably the closest. The Old Wench and I moved in together and formed a household within a year of meeting; then we didn’t bother actually making iit legal for another 22 years. That all was like 18 years ago. Not quite typical but it worked for us. 
Met in college.
Started dating 4 years later
Moved in together 2 years after that.
Still haven’t bothered filling out the paperwork, 30 years after we met.
Started dating about one year after we met, got engaged about a year after that, and got married about nine months after the engagement.
We’ve been married for 34 years now.
There’s “know” as in “seen around the faculty, knew each other’s name”, which would be > 5 years, and then there’s “Actually been on speaking terms” , which would be 5 years. Married 18 years so far.
We had known each other for almost 3 years and been in a relationship for 2 1/2 years when we got married twelve years ago.
I was ready to propose after two years, but her mom developed cancer, which put everything on hold a while. We got married just shy of 5 years after meeting.