The Waiting Game: Celeb Couples Who Waited More Than Five Years To Get Married

March 26th, 2012 - By jaebi

There was a time when courtship and marriage went together like movie previews and the main attraction. But as Western society has evolved, the formal practice of a suitor proving his worth to a lady/her family has largely disappeared. Most regard dating as the courtship period, but only after a couple actually gets engaged.

The time between dating and getting married varies for everyone.  Some are so smitten they get married within the first year of dating while others need years of lead time. In a study, Ted Hutson, a Ph.D professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin found that happily married couples dated an average of 25 months.

"wedding countdown"

Source: lanomanland.blogspot.com

Couples like these celebrities go above and beyond, taking the waiting game to 5 years and then some.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=38407344 Fatima Zahra Afzal Al-Nisa

    Well with William and Kate, I think almost every woman would have waited for a long time when they knew they would be married to a KING who could make her a QUEEN! Heck, most of us women already think of ourselves as Queens, let alone when we could actually be A QUEEN LOL! All jokes aside, there is really no min. or max of time to wait before you marry someone. I have seen people who were together for many years, finally marry and divorce after 2 years of marriage, as well as people who have been together for less than a year and many years later still happily married. If it is meant to be, and you both love, value and respect your relationship, then putting in the work needed will be worthy! I see a lot of people getting married simply because they feel they are at that age (rubbish) and completely blinded by a dream wedding. I think the only question everyone should try to answer before marrying is: “are you in it for better AND worst?”

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  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1415696195 Calandrial PhoenixRising Afriy

    To each his or her own, but I’m not waiting nearly a decade.

  • Ay

    Lala and Carmelo lol

  • RedButterfly81

    Shoot, better to take your time getting to know each other than dating for months, then get married and then get a divorce. Y’all forgot Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale who met in 1995 and got married in 2002.

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