Can quick engagements go the distance?

With 22% of couples getting engaged within the first year of dating, we ask...

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YES

I knew he was the one' Katie Taylor, 56, CEO and founder of The Latte Lounge (lattelounge.co.uk) lives in London with her husband Hugh, 60.

When I told my mum I was engaged in April 1993, aged 23, she was so surprised that she asked me who I was marrying.

Her and Dad had met my fiancé Hugh, then 27, and liked him but we'd only been dating for 11 weeks when he proposed, so everybody including me was shocked! But I never worried that we were rushing because when I'd met Hugh, I knew he was the one. Totally at ease with him, we made each other laugh and could talk for hours. I'd known from the third date that I wanted to spend the rest of my life with him and, it sounds clichéd, but it just felt right.