It's official: Gen Z are not delaying marriage til 30s anymore, young weddings are cool again

[Anonymous]

These kids just want to have nice photos to share on social media.

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Anonymous wrote:20-yo Millie Bobby Brown and 22-yo husband (Bon Jovi's model son) just revealed their gorgeous wedding photos on social media to her 65 million followers. MBB is a trend setter. This follows influencer Sofia Richie getting married and quickly pregnant last year when she was just 24-yo. Pendulum has swung, gen Z'ers consider it is un-cool and weird to wait until late 20s or 30s to settle down.

LOL! These are kids who never have to worry about careers or money.

That was my thought exactly. One of our neighbors' daughters got married right out of college, but she has a trust fund, and he likely does, too. Do you have any data on average Gen Z kids?

What point are you and PP trying to make? 'Married right out of college' means a committed relationship with their future spouse did not disrupt their academic and professional pursuits. You don't need to be single to climb the career ladder in your 20s. If anything, being a mature married young adult makes you more appealing to bosses and you climb faster.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:These kids just want to have nice photos to share on social media.

Sure. And it stokes very real trends: Young weddings + more babies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:20-yo Millie Bobby Brown and 22-yo husband (Bon Jovi's model son) just revealed their gorgeous wedding photos on social media to her 65 million followers. MBB is a trend setter. This follows influencer Sofia Richie getting married and quickly pregnant last year when she was just 24-yo. Pendulum has swung, gen Z'ers consider it is un-cool and weird to wait until late 20s or 30s to settle down.

LOL! These are kids who never have to worry about careers or money.

To say nothing of the fact that they likely will no longer be married within 10 years. Maybe 5?

Research actually points in the other direction. More sexual partners and the longer you delay marriage, more likely to divorce. Just my hunch, something likely driving many of those divorces is how many reach a certain age and settle with someone they never really truly loved. Options narrow very quickly in your late 20s and 30s.

[Anonymous]

They are smart. Family is more important than money and career.

[Anonymous]

Being married is highly predictive of success in law school.

Married young does not mean having kids young.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They are smart. Family is more important than money and career.

lol we're talking about celebrities, to change spouses like cars.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:20-yo Millie Bobby Brown and 22-yo husband (Bon Jovi's model son) just revealed their gorgeous wedding photos on social media to her 65 million followers. MBB is a trend setter. This follows influencer Sofia Richie getting married and quickly pregnant last year when she was just 24-yo. Pendulum has swung, gen Z'ers consider it is un-cool and weird to wait until late 20s or 30s to settle down.

LOL! These are kids who never have to worry about careers or money.

That was my thought exactly. One of our neighbors' daughters got married right out of college, but she has a trust fund, and he likely does, too. Do you have any data on average Gen Z kids?

What point are you and PP trying to make? 'Married right out of college' means a committed relationship with their future spouse did not disrupt their academic and professional pursuits. You don't need to be single to climb the career ladder in your 20s. If anything, being a mature married young adult makes you more appealing to bosses and you climb faster.

Being married is a huge career risk for a young person because it makes moving to a different metro harder.

[Anonymous]

I know so many young women married at 25 or younger now. I think this is a product of social class strata becoming much more fixed and less fluid. The children of affluent, successful, still-married adults are marrying early and continuing on that trajectory of success.

The downwardly mobile children of divorcees are mostly gun-shy, or they veer to the other extreme and enter into marriage early. The children of broken homes and the lower classes are not marrying at all and remaining economically stagnant on a single income, or worse, barely participating in society.

[Anonymous]

This is the same trend I am seeing. Wealthy to UMC young people are marrying early or right out of college - to other wealthy or UMC spouses.

Poorer or LMC to MC young people are living together, or just living with their parents, and not getting married.

I have friend who lived at home after college; eventually his gf moved in with him to their family home, they had a baby and now are getting married post baby. This has been more of the pattern lately to not wealthy younger people I've seen in the DC metro.

[Anonymous]

I have actually heard GenZ talk about how insane she is. They got engaged when she was 19. I haven't heard anyone (especially youngins) say that was a wise idea.

But let's be real, celebrities exist in a different world than most of us. Perhaps I am too cynical, but any celeb married this young is unlikely to last. Baby bonjovi will be one of many husbands I'd wager.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it may be that people used to wait for stable careers and to buy a house. Now that the word is constantly changing and houses are unaffordable anyway, why wait?

People are realizing that marriages go sour and fail even with money and age as well and hooking up with dozens and breaking several relationships doesn't do much for marital quality. Chronological maturity actually stop couples from growing together as there isn't much neuroplasticity left after 30. What helps is having time to grow together in relationships, in career and other aspects of life without having to settle and immediately pop kids in 30's.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Two of my mid-20s employees got married last year. I thought it was weird. I am 47. Most people I know got married in their 30s.

I have noticed this "trend" already.

I'm 54. All my college friends and self got married between 27-28, one or two at 30. My HS friend was an outlier at 23--and they are still happily married. Actually, all of us are still married.

We all waited to have babies though--and most had kids 34-40 (final one before 40).

I have been invited to a few first weddings this year of couples aged 34-35. Most of the people I know early 30s are single.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know so many young women married at 25 or younger now. I think this is a product of social class strata becoming much more fixed and less fluid. The children of affluent, successful, still-married adults are marrying early and continuing on that trajectory of success.

The downwardly mobile children of divorcees are mostly gun-shy, or they veer to the other extreme and enter into marriage early. The children of broken homes and the lower classes are not marrying at all and remaining economically stagnant on a single income, or worse, barely participating in society.

That's true in my husband's home town. They can't afford it. There are some women collecting baby daddies though to get child support from various sources. One is up to 4 baby daddies and brought the last one to court to try to get more $.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:20-yo Millie Bobby Brown and 22-yo husband (Bon Jovi's model son) just revealed their gorgeous wedding photos on social media to her 65 million followers. MBB is a trend setter. This follows influencer Sofia Richie getting married and quickly pregnant last year when she was just 24-yo. Pendulum has swung, gen Z'ers consider it is un-cool and weird to wait until late 20s or 30s to settle down.

LOL! These are kids who never have to worry about careers or money.

To say nothing of the fact that they likely will no longer be married within 10 years. Maybe 5?

Research actually points in the other direction. More sexual partners and the longer you delay marriage, more likely to divorce. Just my hunch, something likely driving many of those divorces is how many reach a certain age and settle with someone they never really truly loved. Options narrow very quickly in your late 20s and 30s.

Eh, it can go either way. My own Boomer parents who married at 22 never divorced, but they were miserable together by the time they reached middle age. Several friends of mine who married right out of college (wealthy ones, even) divorced in their 40s because one or both of them just weren’t the same people anymore. Marriage is hard no matter what.