<human>: Can you give me a shortened version of the text?

So FH and I decided on a 16-month engagement, which is shorter than a lot of you folks but longer than a lot of our friends! I'm not going to lie. The first few months were really, really hard. We had three couples who we love get engaged and married within the course of our engagement. It felt like it would never be our turn to be married.

Since I'm now officially 30 days out, I just wanted to say that wedding things are soooo stressful right now, and I'm realizing how much FUN just being engaged was. We were able to take our time with our registry and picking vendors. We counted down and celebrated every time we knocked off 50 days and were one step closer. We had so many dates where he and I would just go to a coffee shop and talk about small planning things!

I guess what I'm trying to say is this: Your wedding WILL get here, and it will be amazing, and you'll get to be married. But until then, there's a lot of fun to be had in engagement! I'm not a bride who loves wedding planning, but I do love talking about the future, and me and FH got to do that a lot.

I love having people ask about our wedding, and I love that we'd attend weddings and be able to talk afterward about how excited we are for our own!
<bot>: I'm stressed because I'm a month out and THERE IS SO MUCH TO DO, but the past 15 months have been absolutely amazing and engagement is pretty cool. <3