Possible to filter an entry based on property?
This should work below. Rather than querying all entries and looping through, just select the entries you need (ie. now) and limit them. 

{% set upcomingEvents = craft.entries.section('events').eventDate('&gt;= '~now).limit(2) %}
{% for event in upcomingEvents %}
    &lt;!-- markup here --&gt;
{% endfor %}