„Es hat definitiv viele von uns behindert“: Verdrängt die Wohnungskrise die Ehe auf der Prioritätenliste?

With weddings costing on average €35k it’s probably a good thing that people are being sensible about putting it off until after they buy a house.

At the cost of a wedding you would be better using that money buying a house for your long term future

Have kids and a house, not married and the thought of being forced to into spending 30k on a single day that neither of us want isn’t convincing.. so not a house issue but it did allow us buy earlier so guess we avoided a lot of pain that way

Weddings are a waste of money.

Why not just head down to the registry office. Very silly for men to have children without being married tbh.

We got married (30) and had our first (33) before we bought our house (35).

Reality is that young people are expected to make a couple of big purchases/investments: a house, a car, a marriage, and child(ren). We’re at the point where the average person has to pick one of them to go for, and there’s a good chunk of people who actually can’t even afford that. This is why young people focus on holidays, travelling or good food and drink, because the big options are utterly unachievable.

I don’t understand why you’d get engaged and then wait 2 years to get married like this couple. If your priority is marriage then go and get married. They’re essentially delaying what they say is important to throw a party. And it seems like they don’t want kids until they’re married which is valid but its their decision to put off marriage.

On one end of the spectrum the most productive in society are encouraged not to have children or to have very few so they can focus on career, mortgage payments, rent payments, downpayment saving, high tax bills, saving for children to go to college.

On the other end we are encouraging people to have more children to move higher up the housing list so they can get the same thing the productive people get but for free.

This will change in the future, it’s simply not sustainable.

Weddings don’t have to be expensive if you aren’t interested on flaunting money and appearances. A simple wedding can cost 1,000 euros or less and yes is possible.

Does a bear shit in the woods?

A lot of these comments are blaming the people getting married rather than acknowledging how the price of everything is insane. It’s not that people are more extravagant now, it’s that the cost for the same thing is getting higher and higher while income isn’t and more people are being priced out of having weddings. We are continuously becoming worse off because things that used to be a given for previous generations (a house, car, wedding, even children) are financially unattainable and only getting worse.
I will never have a wedding so I have no horse in this race, but saying “well it’s your fault if you want a nice dress or a professional photographer” is giving the same energy of “you can’t afford a house because of all that avocado toast”. It blames the consumer not having enough rather than the market for being insane.

I know civil partnerships were to allow same sex couples, but if they were still a thing my gf and I would probably do that. Like we are buying a house and dont plan to get married for a few years