Buying a house BEFORE or AFTER your wedding?? mixed feelings.

If the locations are certainly going to change within a couple of years, then it makes no sense to get the house now.

Its definitely possible, but it is stressful and you must make sure you can afford it, on your own as well as with him. If you buy it together, and something happens to make the payment fall on your shoulders, your credit would be destroyed if you couldnt afford it alone.

FH and I bought a house in the middle of 2012. We decided before even getting engaged we would focus on the house and renovations. We spent months renovating and moving into the place. Soon after we got settled into our new place we got engaged and now we are focusing on the wedding. We will end up doing everything (buying a house, renovating, getting engaged, and getting married) within about a year and half’s time. First step is figuring out what you can afford. Can you afford a house & a wedding at the same time? If you can, then it’s time to start considering moving forth and doing it. If you two can buy and move into a house this year (2013), that would give you 2014 to focus solely on the wedding. It’s definitely doable, but not necessarily easy. Very rewarding in the end though! Best of luck!

I already have a house where we will live for at least a couple of years. If I didn't we would have a smaller wedding and save towards a house but after the wedding.

We bought our first house at the end of June 2012, with our wedding September this year. It has definitely made finances harder, because even after taking into account the mortgage we can afford, there are so many added costs - like replacing broken curtains, fixing broken fences, fixing broken taps, anything that comes up that your landlord would usually fix... and things are much more expensive than you would think.

That said we are also doing a big wedding, so if we had wanted to we could have done a much more budget friendly wedding, but thats just not want we want, and we already had all of our vendors booked by the time we bought our house basically.

That said I don't regret buying our home when we did

Agree with Lindsay W. If you can do it and it's not too much of a strain on everything else, then do it. My fiance and I have money saved specifically for a home, as we feel that's priority over a wedding, but we do having a wedding scheduled for July 4th, 2014. In a few months we'll begin looking, and see what we can afford and if we can afford both. One of our friends has an apartment, was married a little while ago and live in an apartment. They haven't been able to save up for a home because of their wedding and constant reny payments, and we really don't want to be like that. We'd prefer to have a home over having a wedding, so we'll be weighing our options, which I suggest you guys do when you can. It's not worth the stress/aggravation to have a wedding and not be able to have your own home, in my opinion. Sort out your finances, put your priorities first and see how it'll be. Good luck!

My now husband and I bought our home almost a yr before our actual wedding. We were engaged and already renting a place together before this. I personally think it was the best decision we could have made. Yes it meant we had to cut back our wedding budget a bit, but I would never have changed it. We still had a great wedding and knowing that when it was over we were already settled and could just go home and relax and focus on being married was priceless. I also think this is a big decision and there are many factors need to be examined before making the decision. Both my husband and I had steady careers and incomes when we made the decision to buy our home. You need to do whatever is best for you,,,