Post-wedding life plans?

We will start house hunting after some relaxing time off. We have both really enjoyed planning our wedding and use our usual date nights as chances to go do a cake tasting aka go get a new donut flavor (we are having donuts instead of cake) or check out the venue (again and again-yes, we love it) or go to the craft stores to see if there are any new decor ideas etc. We started planning pretty soon after our engagement so we have been able to go at a slower pace and take our time and enjoy it.

BABIES. Just kidding kind of! We bought a house last year so finishing renovations (we basically gutted the entire house) then talking about babies around the end of next year!

Gosh, SO much happening. I'm currently in grad school and manage a macaron shop. We are getting married in July and I am halfway through the program by that point. Then honeymoon in January 2020 during winter break, then it's going to be an intense year of practicum/internship! THEN we will see about buying a house end of the year (so end of 2020/beginning of 2021) as we currently rent a house and then babies end of 2021. Wish I could do babies sooner since I'll be 30 by 2021, but that's okay!

I am looking forward to not spending so much money!!! I’m getting to be a very savvy shopper but man I am spending all my extra cash on wedding stuff.. mama wants some cute clothes! lol

we're going on our honeymoon a couple days after the wedding. Once we’re back, we’ll establish where we’re at with our remaining savings and hopefully have enough to get a deck built on our house. Then babies! We haven’t told our family yet (don’t need that pressure) but we want to start trying right after we get married.

Hopefully we would have found and purchased a home before the wedding so after the wedding we will be settling in and working on adding our personal touches to our new home and trying to have a baby. Can't wait!

I actually just started a new job right before the wedding and there is a lot of travel with the role so I will be learning my role plus traveling. Kids are in college (I'm an older bride) so I've told FH to come with me and we can have mini vacations and get away and have fun!

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That sounds awesome! I started a new job in March, just a few months before my wedding too.

Yes, I cant wait.do you get to travel with your job??.I'm going to Phoenix this month and Louisiana 2 weeks before the wedding...(that I'm not excited about) For all of those going to school, that's awesome, I have 3 more classes to finish my MBA and I might pursue that as well, just tough with a new job

We own our home now but we're thinking about selling and upgrading after the wedding. We'll have to really evaluate our finances at that point and figure out the timeline that works for us, we're hoping for early 2020 (wedding is late October and we'll back from the honeymoon early-mid November). FH wants to go back to school to finish up his bachelors. He has a few medical licenses and associates degrees but wants to finally round it out with a bachelors, and I'm thinking about going to get my MBA. We have to make sure we can afford both at the same time without a ton of loans though! We aren't planning on trying for kids for 4-5 years (I'm only 25) so we have a few more years to get fully settled and ready for them!

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Not too much traveling for me - I work in finance/accounting at an Ivy League university. That's exciting you get to see so many different places!

I'm in procurement/project management so I get to do site visits and ensure that everything is running smoothly. I'm visiting a resort/spa in a few weeks and wish FH would come with me so we could take in the day and relax but he wont

After we marry, we will both be moving to a different metropolitan area within the same state. We definitely want to wait 18moths to 2 years after wedding to try for children.

That's a great question, I've been thinking about this myself. What's the next step? What the next big thing after our wedding and honeymoon?

For us, it's also a house. Neither of us want kids, just our fur babies. We are still about 2 more years away from having enough for the down payment we are comfortable with before having a house, but we are excited. I'm looking forward to being able to say this is "ours" and decorating/designing each room, ha!

Otherwise just enjoying married life, continuing to enjoy and love one another. That's the best

Lots of decorating for our apartment! I'll be going to school full time to become an esthetician and he's trying to get into the police academy right now, and eventually become a detective. Kids for us are definitely later down the road, probably when I'm closer to 25 or 26.

It's still a way's off for us since our wedding isn't for another year still but we will probably be back to our usual routines of work and traveling.

We will for sure be saving for our house and will be planning a move within the few years after our wedding.

I already have two children and he is on the fence if he really wants one or not, we will see if that option is in our future or not.

We will FOR sure be getting a dog!!!

It has been 6 months I have been married. One thing I have always wanted but have not yet done is print an album with my wedding photos.


We just bought a house and we are moving this week actually, and there is a lot of little home projects and renovations there!

I have been married for just over 2 years. It's a second marriage for me and my husband. I'm 55 now and he's in his 60's. So no kids for us! LOL, I LOVED planning my wedding and miss it. I've been thinking about blogging about weddings, making invitations and all kinds of fun planning things.

Combining our two houses turned out to be a lot more work than we anticipated. I had a full house of stuff and then he added his things. Now we have too much. Our big thing is decluttering and downsizing our lifestyle. (I'm still debating if I should throw away my 2nd-grade report card. LOL)

Also, one of the things I wish I had thought more about was learning how to really budget before and after the wedding. We just started following Dave Ramsey, a guy who really knows his stuff. We hope to be debt free in a year or so, except our houses. (You can find out about Dave online.)

My advice to brides-to-be and newly married couples is to really look at your finances and learn how to get out of debt and build wealth. It is totally doable. Start early and you'll be financially free before you know it. Heck, you might even be a millionaire.

We got married back in September 2018 and since then we've been able to put money into savings towards a big trip for summer 2020 instead of putting it towards savings for the wedding. I've also started back in school as we don't have to save for the wedding anymore! We also knew we weren't going to try for a family as soon as we got married, but that's been the next topic from our families now, lol, you just can't win. We haven't bought a house yet because the husband will have to relocate for a new job in the next year so we're currently still just renting an apartment and hence why we haven't started trying for a family yet either... don't want to try to relocate far with a child, :\. I still think about our wedding practically every day and look back at our pictures and videos. It was definitely the best day of my life .

Go ahead and have kid talk. Make sure you're on the same page about when and how many. Then buy your house accordingly. Kids might be little but man do they have a lot of stuff and take up a lot of space!

I’m two weeks post wedding and it feels weird to not have to look at wedding related things lol. Our next step is to work on buying a house and to begin planning more trips