what is the ideal age to get engaged/married?

There is no ideal age! It's whenever you and your partner decide you're ready! Lol. Personally, this is probably my year and I'm 26.

When you find the right mate, you're financially independent enough to take care of each other without having to depend on relatives, and you've spent a couple of years dating and getting to know each other really well.

There is none. It varies, person to person, just like having kids. Hubby and I got married nearly 5 years ago, after being engaged for a year. I was 22, he was 25. We had planned to wait another year, but my Dad got sick and we moved it up (the blessing was, he was there for our wedding and he wouldn't have been if we'd waited until the next year). Now, at the time I didn't think anything of our age. Once things got harder and I got older, I can definitely see telling someone to wait until they're at least 26 to get hitched! But again, it depends on the people in the end. I now feel like I was YOUNG to get married, but things worked out fine. It just took a lot more work I think. So yeah, it's all in the people.

Ideal age to start having a serious relationship - 23/24 to me on the early side.. Engaged - 26/27. Married - late 20s/early thirties

Too many people are wasting their youth in my opinion on relationships! Have fun while you are young!

Like others have said, there is no one right age. I started dating my wife at 21, we got engaged 1.75 years later, and we got married 1.75 years after that. She is is 2.5 years younger than I. We have been together for ten years and are still going strong.

The reality is that no marriage will be perfect. There are days we fight. There are days we scream. There was the day she started throwing things at me because a bad medication reaction made her uncontrollably furious. There have been days I was the bad guy, I am sure, though my own faults make me blind to it. The thing is that these days are not most days.

Most days, I pick her up at the train station and bring her home to a lovely diner I spent the event preparing. We have dinner together, watch a bit of our favorite television, and cuddle before we go to bed. It is a pretty good life.

No marriage is perfect - she pretends to not get jealous when women flirt with me, and I pretend to be interested about which partner said what at the project stakeholder meeting. We would just about die if we let that define our relationship, however. She doesn't like other women flirting with me, but she tolerates it because she knows I am faithful and will not stray. I do not care about her meetings, but I care about her, and these are clearly important to her. To my way of thinking, a solid marriage needs that kind of devotion. It's not about the love - love is easy. It's about what you do when your partner frustrates you despite the love you share.

If you find someone who you can care for, even when they are at their worst, and if that person can do the same for you, then it is probably not a bad time to look at marriage.

Sounds like a trick question. The REAL answer is when you can financially support a family. EDUCATED or NOT, I cant stand to have to support another family through taxation and "gubment" assistance. Get an EDUCATION first. Get a spouse when you can find a job in an already flooded market (thousands of college graduates are tending bar, flipping burgers or waiting tables two to four years after graduation. Yep, its a trick question? Perhaps not.

Just before they close the casket.

LOL I say this. Marry someone really old and really rich

I got engaged Dec 2010 when i was just 24 and got married on 10th Feb 2012 (4 weeks ago) and I turned 25 in October.
There is no age to get engaged/married, whenever you meet the right person and feel it's the right time.
I have been with my husband since I was just 19, so we were together over 6 years beofre we got married.

I am a born again bible beleiver so I believe that premarital sex is a sin so my opinion is 18,

I don't remember reading in the Bible that you should marry at 18?

The bible say's that we should marry so we don't burn in lust so thats why I say 18 the first legal age you can get married, that was my logic

wow

In your opinion, what is an acceptable age to get engaged/married. Not saying I'm thinking about it any time soon!! Just curious to what people's thoughts are!

You will only know when the times right, its not something that works well when its planned out, if it happens , it happens, and if it doesnt you will be just as happy :-)

Personally, marriage? Never.


Waited until my mid 20's to settle down with one guy and start a family though, have never wanted to be married.

I've been dating my boyfriend for 6 years before he asked me to marry him last October when I was 22, I will be with him for 7 years this coming October and we are marrying when I am 24 in August 2013. <3333

Mid 20s

I got married at 24 ... i'll be 28 this summer we're still together & very happy. I love being married.

When you are 100 percent sure, it is the right choice, I guess. I got married with 24 and been happily married for 19 years now. Another question: When is the legal age here in the US, to get married anyway?

When you've met the right person and you have TALKED about every aspect of marriage and are sure you want to do it. I was late, 27, when I married. Coincidentally, I've been married 27 years.