The Five-Year Engagement + $1,000 Amazon.com Gift Card

The Five-year Engagement

I know lots of you lovely couples are knee deep in your wedding planning and DIY projects, but it’s important to take days away from the planning to make sure you enjoy the process.  So, what better break than a movie date!? :) I’m so excited to see The Five-Year Engagement. You might have already seen previews for it, but if not, it’s from the producer of Bridesmaids (also hilarious!) and stars funny man Jason Segel + cutie Emily Blunt. It’s out on April 27 and takes a look at what happens when an engaged couple (Jason + Emily) keep getting tripped up on the long walk down the aisle. Due to careers and other issues, their forced to keep moving their wedding date and after five years, they just want to get the whole thing over!

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Which brings up a fun question – how long was your engagement?

For Jason and I, our engagement lasted just about one year. He proposed while we were on vacation in Hawaii in October and we quickly decided to take the rest of the year to just relax and enjoy being engaged. The engagement period is such a fun + exciting time! I’m a big fan and proponent of new brides-to-be spending the first few months of their engagement just enjoying being engaged and learning about the types of weddings that are possible. That research will come in handy once the planning really begins and you need to decide which type of wedding you want. I think you’ll also quickly learn that there is lots to learn about weddings and that time for research is so valuable. Don’t worry about the specific wedding details right away, just learn a bit more about weddings and enjoy being engaged!

For us, once the holidays were over, we decided to start making decisions on the date,  location and all of the other details that followed for our wedding in the fall of that year. So, our engagement was a little under a year which, I think is pretty typical. And a five year engagement – well, that actually sounds pretty awesome to me! Even more time to dream up ideas and have fun planning with your sweetie! :) So, I’d love to hear – how long was your engagement? Did any of you have an extra long engagement like Tom + Violet (Jason Segel + Emily Blunt’s characters)?

save the date five year engagement

The Five-Year Engagement Save the Date Sweepstakes for a $1,000 Gift Card at Amazon.com

The journey between popping the question and tying the knot doesn’t always go as planned…Tom and Violet have sent out 10 Save the Dates over the past 5 years, here’s hoping #10 is the last! To enter their Save the Date sweepstakes head over to this link and visit each of the fabulous bridal blogs featured at the top of the page.

Each blog post will highlight one of Tom and Violet’s adorable Save the Dates they sent out between 2008 and 2012, simply collect any 4 dates (as shown on the postcards) and enter them into the sweepstakes page for a chance to win a $1,000 Amazon.com gift card!

Check out the trailer for The Five -Year Engagement here and then visit the blogs listed below to collect the dates for your chance to win the $1,000 Amazon.com gift card!

Here are the other fab blogs sharing some of Tom + Violet’s other fun Save the Dates!

Brooklyn Bride
Wedding Chicks
The Brides Cafe
Once Wed
Rock n Roll Bride
Borrowed & Bleu
The Broke-Ass Bride
Offbeat Bride

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