How old were you when you got married? Or how old will you be when you get married?

Question

Were you financially stable? How old were you? Did you already put a down payment on a house?

I'm in my mid 20's and my bf is in his mid to late 20's and I just want to know what the average age is for people who get married. Thank you!

And were you financially stable before getting married?

Answer 1

I will be 30 when I get married, and he will be 34. He has a job, and I am finishing up school. We are both saving up money, and will have a house within the year. I never expected that it would take me this long to find my soul mate, but God had different plans for me...

Wait it out, but be smart. Wait until you are financially stable and able to live somewhat comfortably. Best of Luck!

Answer 2

The first time I got married I was 19 (WAY TOO YOUNG) and I worked part time, my ex-husband had his own business and I was a house wife on the days I was not working. He had an affair so we split up after 3 and a half years. the second time I married I was 25, and I was financially stable in that I could afford to support myself working full time. He also had an affair after 3 years and now I am marrying for a 3rd and final time and I will be 31, we both work full time but cannot afford a mortgage in London so we have not put a payment down on a house, all we can afford here is a garden shed lol....

Answer 3

I was 28, husband was 38. We knew one another a year, then dated for two before we got married. We were totally financially stable; I'm a teacher with two degrees, he's an electrician. We paid for our wedding ourselves, but didn't get a house - just not possible where we live.
According to a study out last week, the average age for people getting married is the highest it's ever been, 26.

Answer 4

I'll be 38 when we marry next year. I would have liked to be married around 32, but I never met my perfect guy until 2 years ago, and life is very long when you're with someone who isn't just right for you....we're financially stable. He owns a business and I have a professional career...we're building a house this year which should be ready shortly after we marry...I think financial security is very important. I grew up very poor, and I will never go there again, I don't care how great the guy is.

Answer 5

The first time I got married we were 22 and could barely scrape up money for rent. The second time I was 33 and we had already bought a house together. We thought we were financially stable until we had 2 serious car accidents (we had insurance but short term disability isn't the same as a paycheck with 20 hours of overtime and we had a lot of "minor" expenses like prescription copays and hiring someone to do yardwork that probably could have been covered if we fought hard enough) and BOTH lost our jobs. I don't think I will marry again but I might when I'm older if I see a real advantage to it.

Answer 6

I had just turned 22 and was out of college for a little over a year. He was 28 and had just taken his second job out of college (a step up from the first). We were both financially stable on our own so it was not a worry. He had been living on his own again for about a year and I had moved in with him after I graduated college.

We were saving for a house when we got married but, due to his career we could not buy one because we knew that we would have to move several times in the coming years before we could really settle down for more than a year in one state. So we saved, he kept getting promoted and 5 years later he was finally the boss and we could settle down. So we built our dream house after living in the state for about a year and looking over all the new housing developments. It was soo worth it in the end.

Answer 7

I am getting married in October. My fiance and I are both 30.

We started dating at age 13.

We waited until we felt financially secure. We bought a townhouse 6 months ago, because we always felt like you get married and go home to your house. So we wanted to get the house first.

We had a unique (I think) way of saving money. My fiance paid all of the bills, while I saved as much money as I could. That way the majority of the money is in one account and can earn more interest. I don't recommend this unless you completely trust the other person and know without a doubt that you are going to be together for the rest of your lives. So it was never "your" money and "my" money - but "our" money.

Answer 8

Financial stability will NEVER come.. there will always be bills and things you have to pay for.. thats the advice ive gotten from various couples i know married for 10 years or more..

my fiance and i will both be 23 during the time of our wedding.. we are actually going to look at a house today (we rent right now) and we are not financially stable.. we are COMFORTABLE.. we get the bills done.. our credit cards are kind of high.. but we get by comfortably..

good luck

:)

Answer 9

I met my husband in highschool my freshman year and he was a junior, we started dating a month after i started highschool and had a very stong and steady relationship from then on we never broke up once. He asked me marry him my senior year around christmas of 2005 i was still seventeen, and we had already knew two years before what we wanted our wedding date to be it was set for September of 2006 Our four year anniversary. I turned eighteen that march and he was nineteen at that time. We married in september and a week later he turned twenty. So we were 18 and 19 when we got married. We had a pretty big wedding it was beautiful, you know white dress in a church type of wedding we didn't skip anything we had a reception a honeymoon it is all possible. We are finanically stable but sometimes it is hard. He is an electrician, i am in college full time, and in the summer i work at a grocerie store. We have an older vehile a 2000 year model and we also have a 2007 year model vehicle, we have laudry to do at a laundry mat, cell phone bill, House phone and internet bill, car payments, insurance, college... We live with his parents in a little apartment type of thing in the basement. Rent is free, but we still have alot of bills we are now 19 and 20 and are doing wonderful, struggling a little isn't bad it brings you to closer together to have to work these type of things out, you have to cling to each other more for advice and encouragement. If i had to do it all over again i would not change a thing... we are told all the time that we are to young but we don't care we work hard and cheer each other on for what we want to accomplish. God will get us through everything if we trust in him... no worries do what is in your heart Good luck

Answer 10

I got married when I was 23 and my husband was 24. We both were financially stable as we had full-time jobs.