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Honestly I always thought I'd marry around 30, so getting married at 26 was ahead of schedule for me. What about you? How close were you to your "schedule"?
I'm the same as mrsbee; I always expected to get married around 30 and have kids soon after. Getting married at 26 is not what I thought would happen!
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I will have just turned 36 by the time I get married. I am so truly blessed that I met my fiance and we both had the experience, knowledge, and maturity to know what it takes to make a great relationship. However, I can't help to feel a little cheated in a sense because now we are rushed to start having children right away. I really wanted more time to just enjoy each other after the marriage. (FYI before our wedding date of 9/09 we will have been dating 21 months). Its very disheartening when your doctor tells you that you need to start right away because your eggs may be "past freshness & stale".
In my nieve younger years, I thought I'd be settled down, married and on the verge of kids by 24. LoL. I'll be 27 (going on 28)...not too too far off.
When I was a wee whippersnapper, I too thought I'd be married with kids by 24. We'll be 25 & 26 when we get married, which isn't too far off, but the only reason we're so close to "schedule" is because we've been dating since we were 16. 
There should be an option for "never"- before I met my husband I never thought I'd get married at all.
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I think my parents had my whole life planned for me before I was born. Grow up. Go to school. Graduate high school. Graduate college. Get married to a rich man. Make lots of babies. I always went with it, ok, married at 23 or 24. I was on track too, rich man and all. Good thing I opened my eyes and realized it wasn't what I wanted. Now I'll be getting married at 26, and I couldn't imagine it any other way!!
i thought by the time i was 26 i would be married and by 28 i would start having children. i'm 28 now and my timeline has been thrown off course by 2 years...not too bad.
When I was a little lilmisssha, I thought I would get married at 23. When I turned 23, I knew I wasn't ready and 25 seemed like a good age. At 25, I knew that I was getting there but still didn't know that I was ready to get married. By the time I was 27, I knew I wanted to get married. I was just a matter of getting engaged...lol
Because both of my sisters were, I thought I'd be married by 21 or 22. HA! Like I knew anything "back then". I am so glad that I experienced the world, cultures, new cities, etc. - something they haven't done (which is just fine with them, though!). 28/29 is good for me...and even sometimes now I think that is a little young!
When I was in elementary school and thought I had my whole life planned out by the age of nine and a half--I thought I would be married by the age of 25 and start having kids at 27 with two sets of twins! Now, I will be married when I'm 26 but we don't plan on having any children until a few years into our marriage and there is no way I could handle giving birth to two sets of twins (knock on wood!).
I don't think I ever had a planned age... I knew I wanted to get married- but no clue when. I do remember that one of my best friend's growing up had her life all planned out with dates and timelines. She was soooo obsessed with it that up until the wedding I wondered if she married her husband because he was "the one" or becuase it fit into her "schedule." Its been a few years, and I think she was luckily enough to find "the one on schedule" 
This post also makes me think of a thing we'd do in elementary school--- man, the details escape me. But you'd list out colors and number of bridesmaids, potential husbands, number of children, and somehow you would get a number and count around all the options. As the things got eliminated you'd be left with just what your wedding would be like....
So strange-- but I remember having a fascination with it... though it never really stuck with me... Anyone else remember this?
I always thought I'd be married by the time I was 21 or 22... based on my family, I couldn't believe I would make it to 23. Then I got older and realized there is no rush. I'll be 28 when I am married.
When I was younger, I never dreamt about my wedding, but I always "knew" what age I'd be getting married...28. Not sure how I ever came up with the number, but hey, it's coming true! I'm actually getting married the week before my 29th birthday. LOL, just in time.
@hirsche: I so remember that game, haha. The name escapes me though. I think we even did ours with houses, cars and types of jobs too. Pretty involved for a little kid game
I always thought I'd be married at 22, and I will be! We've been together for over 7 years so I always knew I'd probably be young, but I wanted to be. As for children, I always thought I'd want to try on our honeymoon. But I've realized that I want married time for me & my hubby first! A few friends and sisters have had babies recently and I've realized that there's no rush... I've got awhile to go and I like my freedom right now!!
I thought I'd be 22, and I was. And it didn't work out.
A friend told me once that "If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your life plan." I'm not religious, but that's stuck with me. I am a BIGTIME planner. To the point of "if I want to be married at 22, I will be!" It's a bad way to be.
I also thought I'd have a baby at 24. Well... I'm not 24 anymore and I have no baby, and that's a good thing. Now I'm happy, with a man I love, and won't be married until I'm 27... but that's fine with me because it's to the right person, for the right reasons.
@hirsche and @Golden139 - I think you guys are thinking of "MASH" - we used to play with cars, house types, spouses, etc.
I used to think that I'd be married at 23 and having my first child by 27 like my parents did. I will instead be getting married at 28.
When I was younger, I thought I'd be married at 22, simply because my perception of age was so skewed. Back then, I thought 27 was so OLD, and I couldn't imagine waiting until then to get married. I've always wanted at least 3-5 years between getting married and having kids, so the thought of not having a child until I was 27 seemed impossible to me. Now, at nearly 25 (to be wed in 11 months) I can't imagine starting my family BEFORE 29! There's just too much I want to do first. :)
I always thought I'd get married around 25, I'll be 26 when we say I do. I think I came up with that because it is the average age in America for women, or at least it was a few years ago.
I never really thought about marriage... but I guess I thought that if I were to get married, 30 would be a good age. I knew that the right guy was far more important than the age, and I sat tight until I found him!
@Msgirard- Your doctor really said that? I'm pretty stunned, because having kids at 35 is not atypical now, but quite common. There may be a few additional screening and monitoring tests that your OB performs, but that should be about it. I feel like there is enough pressure on us women as it is around children... to have a physician add such an ignorant statement is unnecessary!
Where I grew up, people marry younger, so I thought I would get married shortly after college, maybe 23...I will be 29, and that does put more pressure on the kid situation, but I have grown so much in the last 6 years & feel like I can be a better wife!
i always thought that i would be 25-26 when i got married.. well i will be 20 at my wedding.. which is earlier than i thought... but i have been with my FI for 3 years.. it was love at first sight. he asked me out on a date the night we met and we havent been apart since :)
plus i am more finacially stable than i thought i would be at my age thanks to a job i love and smart investing. so i figured "why not"!!! i want to have kids in the next 3-4 years and i want some "us" time first :)
I always worried I'd be a spinster and would be single at 35, but I was lucky and met my guy at 24 and was married just after my 27th birthday!
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Actually, I feel bad -- I shouldn't have used the "s" word -- seriously it's not nice, and honestly I always felt that would be me and there's absolutely nothing wrong with it. Sorry hive, just realized I may not have come off very sensitive in the comment above.
Getting married at 25 was always in my plans and I married at 24, so that's pretty close!
I thought i would be single forever! I thought I would be a successful business woman traveling the world.
I thought I'd be engaged at 22 and married at 23. I was engaged at 20 and I'll be married in July at 23.
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My FI and I have been together forever, so I thought we'd get married when I just turned 23 right out of college. BUT I went to grad school and we lived on different sides of the country, so now we are in the same spot and by the time our wedding rolls around I will have just turned 27! 4 years difference isn't so bad,.. and I'm glad we waited. So many of my friends that married young are now divorced... at 26!
LOL @ Chicagowife. I read your first post and it made me take a sharp breath in... (since I personally am getting married after 35, and I think I started having such thoughts creep in occassionally at a certain point... due more to societal pressure than to my own feelings.)
But, I understand too, that everyone has their own perception of what is right for them. So one woman's 35 or 40 is another woman's 25.
I thought it was really sweet that you posted such a thoughtful follow-up!
I thought I'd have a stable job and enjoyed most of life's treasures in order to be married by 26. I was probably like 14 yo when I envisioned this, so 10+ yrs seemed a long way to go! But now I'm 25, still in school (1.5 yrs left!!), and still haven't been able to enjoy "life" the way I wanted. That's okay though. I've realized that you can't really set these kinds of timelines for yourself and it's better to just let fate be. It doesn't matter when you get married, as long as you find the perfect person for you. Being married will be such a fun journey in itself! Btw, I will be getting married just 1 month shy from turning 26. :)
I always thought I'd be married at 28 in order to have my first child before 30. But when I never had a serious boyfriend past the age of 19, I didn't think that plan would work out. And now here I am at 25, almost married. It just goes to show you that you never know what might happen.
I definitely had a skewed view on age when I was younger... I thought I would go to college, fall in love, graduate, and get married when I was 24. That's so funny to me b/c I didn't even have a serious boyfriend until I was 22...and I didn't get married until I was 29!
I never believed that I would really be truly in love. My older sister always had long-term relationships and always seemed to think that the guy she was dating was "the one," and while I certainly dated, I never felt like I was going to marry any of those guys. Once I met my fiance, though, all of that changed. I am surprised that we met at such a young age - I'll be 23 when we get married, which I never imagined for myself.
I always thought that I would be 24, because that is the age my mother was married at. I will turn 24 a week after our big day, so I'm close :)
Thought I would be 26...but I was 32. And it was well worth the wait :)
I always figured I'd get married around 28 and we'd be traveling the world before thinking about kids around 30 or so.
Instead, we fell in love in college, got engaged 2 years after graduation when I was 23 , and with his furthered education stretching our timeline, we'll be married at 25 and 26. ^_^
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