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I recently read an article which states that people who get graduate degrees tend to wait longer to get married i.e. in thier 30s whereas people who don't get graduate degrees generally marry earlier.
I know for SO and me we will likely get married when I am 31. Before this, I spent 7 years getting my BA, and JD. My SO will be 36 and he spent 12 years getting BS, MD, and completing residency. Before getting done with med school marriage wasn't even on the radar for him!
Yet, I have friends from college who stopped there and were married around 24-25.
What about you?
I'll be getting my BA in May, so I was a college senior when I got married. I am not planning on going to grad school because there's really no need--I don't want to teach, and I can secure a writing or editing position with a BA and my experience.
I was 23 and DH was 24. We both have B.S. degrees in engineering and had been out of school for 1-1.5 years.
I think what the article was seeing is that many people decide not to get married until they are done getting their education (no matter how much education that might be). So people who don't go to college often get married at 18-19, people who just get a Bachelors often get married at 22-24 and people who get graduate degrees often get married when they finish those. But I feel like many of them (obviously not all) are only waiting longer because they are still in school.
@Mrs Grape: Not to threadjack, but what did you study? I was communications and do writing now.
32; BA and JD. Yay for 30-something brides.
I want to spend more money on my wedding so working as an atty for several years factors in as well
I will be 24 and he will be 29. I am looking to have a future in medical coding (I have to work for three years before I can take a certification test) and J is in the process of going to plumbing school and has about 3 more years until he take his license test. =)
I will be 27, with a bachelors degree and a masters in social work. My partner will be 29 with a bachelors degree, and 3/4 of an M.D.
When we got married, I was 24; my husband was 22 (23 a week later). He is currently finishing his MS in Engineering (last semester!), and then I hope to go back to get my MLS (Library Sciences). We got married young-ish, I think, but grad degrees were in our plans regardless.
I'll be 22, FI will be 25. He has his BA. I'm still in the process.
@hilsy85:Yup! I thought the article was interesting because it seems to generalize. But still found it interesting.
I think I'll be around 22 or 23 when i get married and I'll be just starting my 4th and final year of my Bachelor's degree. I intend to go on to get my master's in Molecular Biology.
@SoontobeMrsA: English major with a writing minor (my uni doesn't have a writing major--BOO). I did some independent freelance as a sophomore and a couple of writing internships to boost my portfolio.
I am the young and uneducated here =) LOL I am going to be 18 and i will have no education other than high school and what the good LORD provides me with.
Will be 21 and 20 credits away from a BA and will be continuing on to a MA program the next fall. Planning on going on to a PhD once I have an esablished position in a museum. That being said, my intention coming into my BA I did not even plan on dating, much less marriage, until at the earliest, during my Masters program.
FH is 12? (maybe 9) credits into a Masters in Computer Science but likely will never complete it and may go back for a MBA. He will be 24.
I will be 25, he will be 26, I have a BA, he will be almost done with his Masters.
I was 26 when I got married and I'm working on my masters. DH was 27 and he has his a B.A.
@Knubbsy-Wubbsy: Just a random LOL - I read your post fast and thought you said your FI was 12 years old 
I'll be 27 when I get married, and have my BA and Master in Public Policy. FI will be 29 has his BA and JD.
@MrsMaine:LOL. I did the same thing and read it again! I have a bad habit of reading too fast.
I'll be 22 and in my fourth year of getting my BA and FI will be 22 and in his second year of being an Army man :)
I'll be 26 and FI will be 25, we're both graduating from med school a few weeks before the wedding. A bunch of people in our class are engaged/married, seemed like the first wedding wave was between 2nd and 3rd year (there's a short break), and the second is between graduation and residency. I can definitely understand people planning their major life events around schooling.
I'm 30 and still will be when we get married. I've got a bachelors degree plus a post graduate teaching qual.
We were both 26 when we married. He has just a BA. At our wedding I had a BA, an MA, and a year under my belt toward my MAT (just one class to go!)
We both have our bachelor's and we'll be 24 and 25 (week shy of 26) when we get married. I graduated in 2009 and he in 2008. He's going back for his MBA.
It makes sense--a lot of couples cannot financially handle a wedding while paying out the wazoo for grad school! Plus the time committments for many programs are astronomical. Add work and planning a wedding on top of that and it's just too much sometimes. People seem like to focus on only one or two big things at a time.
I was 23 with a BS and DH was 26 with a BS. I'm working part time on my MSEng and DH will start his when I'm done and he is eligible for tuition reimbursement.
I was 25 and 6 months away from getting my BS, hubs was 27 and didn't go to college, only has his hs diploma
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