How old were you when you got married( if you are married )?

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I was 20. Had to get my father’s permission. Mr C was 25. Our first child was born after 6 years, a straightforward home birth Our second when I was 29. A firm message, had I reached the age of 30 a home birth wouldn’t have been allowed. Not sure what difference six months would have made.

I'm now 59 and hubby will be 63 in August.

A first marriage for us both when I was 42 and he was 46!

We met in September 2007 and officially married February 2011!

No kids by choice as I was 6 when decided I didn't want any.

We married in 1974 both aged 20. Daughters born in 1976 and 1979. That relationship lasted 19 years.
I married again and we have been together for 16 years and hopefully there will be many more years to come.
I can't believe we married so young, but that was what people did then.

Children born at 28 and 33.

I was 18 but 5 weeks off 19. Dh was twenty. It was 1960 and not unusual.

I am enjoying the fact that so many GNs have been married longer that I have (51 years next month).

It doesn't happen to me very often in real life.

I married 3 weeks after my 21st birthday.
I would have married on my birthday but in those far off days, 1958, we could only take two weeks holiday in August when the place closed for two weeks.
The other reason was that my widowed mother would not give her permission which was required then until the age of 21.
My H was 22.
We were married for over 60 years until he died.

Married at 25 and divorced by 28. Its not that my ex husband was that bad a person - we are still in touch and he never forgets my birthday. I should never have married anyone Im far too strong and independent a person to need to be one of a couple.

Had a few casual relationships since (friends with benefits) but never contemplaited living with another person since.

Never wanted the burden of children.

I was 22 and DH 25. We've been married for 53 years. Sadly our twin babies died soon after birth but we were lucky enough to eventually have a daughter and little later a son. They both have a family and live not far away which is lovely.

I was 19, DH was 22. First child in 1963, second 1956, third 1975. We will have been married for 63 years this September.

I was just 20 husband was 20 also 1968, had our first of 3 children 6 mths later.

I was at uni and had to get permission to marry from the uni authorities! Talk about interference in your life. Of course, because my future husband was an academic with a PhD , they ‘allowed’ it. Probably wouldn’t have if he was a brickie.

I was 19. Had my son 15 years later.

I was 25 and DH was 34. Our third child was born in 1978(6 years later) and when she was in primary school he earned the dubious reputation of being the oldest Dad in her class .

21 wife was 19, 1st daughter 18months later, lived in mobile home for 2 yrs, no fun in winter with a baby.

Bumface

Callistemon21
We had a hilarious interview (in retrospect) with a fertility counsellor to make sure we were "Doing it properly".

I have just remembered my DH saying "We do both have O'Level biology, you know." He is an art's graduate. I was a state registered nurse at the time, a fact they already knew. It didn't stop the counsellor describing in embarrassing, childishly worded detail what we should be doing. I just remember front bottoms, thingamejigs and back bottoms being mentioned.

Phone went mad! .... had children aged 26, 28, and 34.

I married at 20, but turned 21 the following month. OH was 22. He was still a student and I was able to enter him on my Home Office grant application (for my post grad year) as a dependant! ... he didn't get a grant because he already had a degree and then started medicine from scratch.
Together over 50 years, but missed our actual golden anniversary as he died a few months before.
Had children aged 16,

We were both 21.

In my mother's family, late marriages, however defined by the period they lived in, are normal in my family. In the first decade of the last century my grandmother was 27 and had her first child at 28. In the 1940s, my mother married at 29 and had her first childat 31. My own dates, 24 and 28, I listed above, while my son married at 32 and became a father at 35, his wife, slightly his senior, was 37 and 40 when she had children.

Callistemon21
We had a hilarious interview (in retrospect) with a fertility counsellor to make sure we were "Doing it properly".

Married at 19 in 1967, DH was 24. DD1 arrived 2 years laterDD2 five’s years after that and DS 2 Years later. Two out of three DC married in their mid twenties and one early thirties

Bumface

I was 24, my husband was 23. Of my friends, only one was older than I was, 26. The others including two of my cousins, were 19 or 20.

I had my first and only child 13 years after marrying as we had 'problems'. A lot of people assumed we were child free from choice and muttered about 'being too selfish'. I could never understand what they meant.

People can be thoughtless, can't they.

I never heard that (although people may have thought it) but I did hear jokes such as "Can't find the recipe?"
Just after I had DC1, I got an appointment at the infertility clinic, I'd forgotten all about the referral. The waiting lists were long even back then.

Interesting to read all the responses.
I was the last of my friendship group to get married, at 29. First baby at 31. Second marriage at 44 after 4th baby at 41. There was never any mention of me being an older mum although it was much more tiring. Baby 4 was safely born at home.