What age is acceptable to get married?

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When would you say is the right age to get married if you think there is one?
Just seen an old friend (19) get engaged and sparked this thought in me.

To me it's less what age you get married and more what personal ambitions you are putting on hold for someone.

E.g. someone giving up a place at a good uni because they met someone on their gap year and want to get married would probably make me think 'what's the rush?' But someone marrying at 19/20 & both supporting each other go achieve their goals wouldn't bat an eyelid.

I think it's good to get secure in yourself as an individual and get stable befoe tying yourself to someone else for life. I dont think there is a set age though.

I got married at 26 & it felt right. Still does, 28 years later. But looking back, with a 25 year old DC of my own who is in no hurry to settle down, it seems very young. It's up to the individual though, of course, everyone's different.

It is a bit of a tangent but I have noticed that posh people tend to get married very young. Engaged at university, wedding a couple of months after graduation, that kind of thing. I suppose money isn’t an issue for them but there must be more to it than that.

@MaisyPops absolutely agree, when people have heard how old DH and I were when we got together they assume we put things on hold and would have to make up for it later. But I always say the success of a young relationship depends on how you support each other, I went away to uni hundreds of miles away for 3 years and studied abroad without batting an eye lid, and when I finally returned DH joined a career that travels for months (charming ha) we both had to figure out what we wanted in our own time and it's meant we've grown up together rather than apart. We've travelled together, nothing has been put in hold!

BlackForest I knew a couple like that. They had to live apart for the first two years after getting married which made it seem a bit pointless. I think they are still together though.

I was with DH at uni but we decided to wait to get engaged until we were at a point we could plan to live together.

I was 22 ..dh 28. We have been together 30 years and married for 28.
Looking back it seems so young (I was not long out of University) but it worked

Our eldest got married this year at 26. No 2 proposed on Xmas day (he's 25) but won't marry for a while as they have visas to sort first (been together three years) I feel they are old enough to really know their own minds now, but kind of glad they don't have children yet (I had three by 26!)