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Old 9th January 2014, 12:15 PM   #1
oladi
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Looking for practical marriage advice - Young london couple wanting to marry in 2016

Hello everyone,

While I was a student in university I met the woman I wanted to marry and we approached our relationship with marriage in mind from the get go. It has been over a year and a half since we started courting and now that I have graduated and found a job (Thank God!) I have started saving towards our first property, and would like us to marry by roughly spring 2016.

The thing is I am being realistic about my financial situation: I currently earn roughly 16k a year and I know that in london and assuming I will not get substantial pay raise it would be incredibly difficult for my wife to be and I to live together once we're married. She is due to graduate in the summer of 2015 and wants to be a teacher, which means she plans to immediately study for a PGCE for a year.

We both think it will be a good idea to spend our first few years of marriage renting a flat in London zone two ~£750 a month and my girlfriend thinks that with careful budgeting, her PGCE student loan and my income would be viable to split the bills (water, council tax, travel, food, gas, electricity, internet, contents insurance, savings - just letting you know that I have considered all of these things!)

I am on board with renting a property but I just want to know if any other couples who married young were in a situation where their significant other was still studying and if so, was such a situation manageable for you?
Some more information about us if it helps:
I am currently 21 years old and my parents were amazing enough to pay for my university tuition and I currently live with them which means I am in no debt.
My girlfriend is a 20 year old uni student set to graduate in summer 2015 and either get a TA job or start her PGCE that same year in September.

I am asking as many young christian couples from my church as I can, but most of our "young" married couples are still a fair bit older than us.

Thanks for any wisdom you'll be able to pass on, stay blessed!
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