Marriage or Mortgage?

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I binged that entire series in one day! For me, I would choose Mortgage, no question. My wedding is so inexpensive, the ENTIRE cost of EVERY single thing is under $9,000. If I had $30,000 to put on a house or a wedding, I'd 100% pick house. The wedding is one day. Yes, it's an important day, but to me, the security of having a house is way more important than putting on a big showcase wedding to impress other people.

In an ideal world, we'd prefer the property, but we couldn't finance it now anyway.

In reality, it's a cheap wedding first, then a visa, then flights, and renting for the foreseeable, (unless we can get together about 25k for a deposit on a house). So on prices alone, we'll likely live further out from the city to ensure a cheaper mortgage.

I'd never heard of this show, but I don't have Netflix. But 38 years ago, hubby and I chose "mortgage". First: I'd been married before with a big wedding, and felt another big wedding would be sort of tacky. (the first marriage was recently annulled so in June at our 38th anniversary, we're having a "convalidation" - the Catholic wedding ceremony we couldn't have back then), and my then-fiance, who had not been married, didn't want a big wedding anyway. Also: his grandmother who was well into her 80's at the time, had Alzheimer's and was going into a nursing home. Her house was being left to his family, but til she died and then we bought the house, we rented it. When we bought it from the family, hubby's Mom and Dad gave us a sizeable down-payment since we had already decided not to accept their offer to pay for a larger wedding. The house has more than tripled in value since so I'd say we made a good choice. Especially since 18 days after our 1st wedding anniversary, we welcomed our baby son to the family!