How old were you when you first got married?

[The Girls' Mom]

I was 16 and dh was 18. And no, I wasn't pregnant..;)

 

We will celebrate 20 years in October.

[bamagirl]

I was 33, DH was 32. Pretty old I guess, but it took me that long to find the perfect man :)

 

We didn't waste time starting a family. I found out I was pregnant with our first right before our first anniversary, then our second was born 2 years later. I was well established in my career by the time I had kids, so was able to then stay home with no regrets.

 

The only negative to being older, I guess, is the fact that we would have loved to have had 4 children, but I didn't want to be pregnant into my 40's so we stopped at 2. I love my little family though and wouldn't have it any other way!

[Jean in Newcastle]

it took me that long to find the perfect man :)

 

 

 

I remember people asking why I wasn't married yet. Duh, because I hadn't found the right man yet! At the time (in my mid to late 20's), it hurt to be asked that. Now that we've found each other, the memory doesn't sting as much but I still think it was a stupid question.

[jar7709]

I was 23, DH 24. I was the first to get married in my circle of friends, by a few years.

[UmMusa]

I was 23.

[Gingerbread Mama]

I was 19, DH was 21. I was totally ready to settle down and be an old married woman...DH was not ready to settle down at all. He loved/s me and I think he thought he could have his cake and eat it, too. We had a rough start up, I would say our last 5 years have been our "best". Thankfully, each year gets a bit better, so it was worth the wait.

 

I don't regret marrying young, I wish I'd considered other aspects of marrying DH (crazy @$$ family LOL)... Oh, we've been married 14 years :)

[NCBlueberry]

I was 21, he was 24 (a few days from 25). We've been married 11 years now.

[justamouse]

Me 22, him 31, married 18 years and counting.

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[FO4UR]

I was 21. He was 25. We've been married almost 12 years.

[Melissa in Australia]

I was married at 18, had my first child at 19, been very happily married for just on 20 years.

My DH is just under 13 years older than me. I think this has been a major asset in our marriage.

[Twilight Woods]

I had just turned 24. We had been together since I was 21 and he is 5 years older.

[Kirch]

I was 21, dh had just turned 22. 13 years in June! :001_smile:

[abacus2]

We were 20. We celebrate 14 years next month. We started dating when he was 15 and a few days before my 15th birthday. Ideally I think we would have married at 17, but that isn't/wasn't socially acceptable.

[calimom04]

I was 20! Its been 10yrs!

[daffodil]

I was 19. Probably too young, but we're still happily married.

[Delighted3]

I was 19 when we got married and we are still going strong 23 years later.

Joy

[AndyJoy]

I was 21 and DH was still 19 (but a college graduate). We're celebrating 9 years in June.

[mommaduck]

We met when I was 15 and he was about to turn 18. We married at 19 and 21. We nearly married the year before and sometimes I wish we had.

[twoxcell]

I got married to my dh when I was 18. I'm 28 now and our 10th anniversary is next Friday.:001_smile:

[Lab1]

I was 21 &so was DH. I sometimes wish we'd gotten married earlier! 13 yrs next month!

[Mom in High Heels]

I was a week shy of 22 and dh was 22. We've been married 17 years. Some days it seems like we were married yesterday and other days it feels like it's been a million years. :D

[Kelly1730]

I was 18 and he was 19. We dated all through high school. We will be married for 32 years this October. I'm sure there were naysayers at the time but I think after almost 32 years, 6 children, 5 grandchildren, it worked out well.:lol:

[chepyl]

We were both 21, we have been married 11 years. We waited until I graduated college to het married andbtuen waited until DH graduated and I finished my MA before we had kids. I dont think we were young, but I was the first of my high school class to get married.

[Deb in NZ]

I was 25 & dh was 41. We celebrated 20 years last December. Our dc dug out the old home videos yesterday & found our wedding video. Their only comment was "Mom, you look like you were 12!" :lol: I wish I still looked half my age now :tongue_smilie:

[Donna]

I was 23 and dh was 24. We dated for 6 years before we got married and will celebrate 19 years in August.

[Puma Mom]

I was 21, and dh was a few weeks shy of 20. We got married right before our senior year of college and have been married almost 28 years.

[MedicMom]

I was 27, DH 25. We have been married three years.

I too am surprised at how young many of you were. I loved my single years, earned several degrees, built two careers, traveled. I wouldn't trade any of that for the world.

Maybe it is a regional thing? I only know two people who got married before 23, one is divorced and the other will be. Personally I will encourage my children to wait at least until their mid 20s before getting serious with someone.

[Farrar]

The demographics of this are really interesting to me. The average age of first marriage in the United States is 26.5 for women. It seems like the Hive is only slightly younger than that. But why?

 

I got married very young at age 21, but I only know a few couples irl who got married before 25 or older.

[DusksAngel]

I was two weeks shy of 25, DH had just turned 22. We'll be celebrating our 10th anniversary in October. We were friends since high school.

[Julie Smith]

I sort of have two answers to this question.

 

The actual marriage part of marriage was never important to me.

 

I do move in with my dh when I was 19. We joined are bank accounts, and then dealt with paperwork of being a couple. By that I mean are the boring and sometimes icky to talk about health insurance, life insurance, and writing of wills.

 

Now it wasn't done in a morbid kind of a way. Just in a - I always want to make sure you are looked after kind of way no matter what kind of accidents might befall us that are out of are control.

 

We didn't get married till I was 22. Not quite, but we pretty much got a invitation to our wedding. My SIL (My brother's wife, not my husbands sister) liked organizing parties and thought us getting married would be a good excuse to do so.

[Danielle1746]

My husband and I got married just after I turned 19 after dating for 3 years. He was almost 21. We'll be celebrating our 15th anniversary in a few months.

[TXMomof4]

I had just turned 19 and dh was 23. We'll celebrate 17 years together in August. I used to think we did it the hard way, but I'm watching my neighbors who are newlyweds - he's 40 something, she's 31 and they are having a hard time getting used to giving up their complete independance to be part of a married couple. I could see that I would have had a really hard time too - I'm pretty stubborn. As it was, dh and I kind of grew up together. I wouldn't trade it.

[JenC3]

Married at 27 and dh was 31. 12 yr anniversary this year.

 

I thought I'd marry 3 different guys before dh, 2 of them married YEARS after we dated and one has never married.

[thefragile7393]

19 first time. I could have stood to wait a few years and I wish I had...I would have seen what kind of person I was marrying in a much clearer light lol

[Guest]

I was 19, he was 23. We celebrated 11 years in April.

[JudoMom]

I was 21, dh was 27. We just celebrated 15 years.

[Joker]

I was 21, he was 25. We married after dating only four months, and are about to celebrate 15 years.

[PeacefulChaos]

I was 27, DH 25. We have been married three years.

I too am surprised at how young many of you were. I loved my single years, earned several degrees, built two careers, traveled. I wouldn't trade any of that for the world.

Maybe it is a regional thing? I only know two people who got married before 23, one is divorced and the other will be. Personally I will encourage my children to wait at least until their mid 20s before getting serious with someone.

 

I don't know if it's regional or not... but I do know that to me, the things you mentioned never interested me. Not that I think it isn't valid, I do. I just think it has a lot to do with each individual. :)

[freeindeed]

I was 22 and dh was 21 when we got married...pretty young, but not as young as my ds and his soon-to-be dw. He is 19 and she is 18. They are getting married this Saturday. :)

[BugsMama]

First time, 18. Yeah, that didn't work.

Second time, 24. Still very young, but I didn't "feel" it, and felt better prepared and ready to be married. Still quite happy!

[raceNzanesmom]

I was almost 27, dh was 29. I, however, have been with dh since I was 21.

[TravelingChris]

I was 22 and dh was 21 ( we both were born in the same year but different months). We will have been married for 27 years in September. We were together for 3 years before we married. No, I do not think we married to early. We didn't have our first child for four more years.

[ecj98]

I was 22; he was 23. We celebrate 10 years next month.

[jenL]

I was 23, and dh was 24. We were both a month to a month and a half from our birthdays (married in Sept, both born in Oct). We'll celebrate 15 years this fall. Like others have said, we both are the settling down types, and we both just knew. We're best friends as well as husband and wife.