Typical timeline for dating/marriage in DC

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Met at 26. Engaged at 27. Married at 28.

We actively waited to have kids until 34 though. Had a lot of fun and travel first.

[Anonymous]

These numbers seem crazy young to me. Most people I know where not married until early to mid thirties in this area.

[Anonymous]

Met at 25, engaged at 27, married at 28.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Met at 25, engaged at 27, married at 28.

Adding, we were one of the first to get married in our circle. Most got married about 3-4 years later.

[Anonymous]

Met at 24, engaged at 26, married at 27. Kid at 37 along with most of my friends who didn’t get married quiet as young.

[Anonymous]

Both born in 1983.

Met- October 2010
Engaged - July 2012
Married- October 2013
Baby #1- October 2016
Baby #2 - January 2019

I think our path was pretty normal (age and timing/progression wise) in our social and professional circles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:These numbers seem crazy young to me. Most people I know where not married until early to mid thirties in this area.

Me too. For my friends who met in college or shortly after, they got married in their early to mid 20s.

I met DH at 29, we got engagaged 11 months later and then married 8 months after that when I was 30.5. He's 9 years older. Two of my very good friends who are the same age as me but were living in different parts of the country got married within 18 months of my wedding.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:These numbers seem crazy young to me. Most people I know where not married until early to mid thirties in this area.

Are those people that are from this area? Do they have grad degrees from colleges in other locations? Most of my friends were married by late twenties but at least one person in each couple grew up in DMV, went to college in the area or came back here right after college and if they have a grad degree it was someplace local like GW, UMD, Catholic etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Median age of first marriage for women in DC, us 30.4 years. It’s higher than any US state, though the city’s demographics (entirely urban, lots of professionals) skew our numbers versus a state with urban and rural areas. https://www.bgsu.edu/ncfmr/resources/data/family-profiles/payne-median-age-first-marriage-geo-fp-19-07.html

The mean maternal age at first birth is 29.7, again the oldest mean in the country. https://www.bgsu.edu/content/dam/BGSU/college-of-arts-and-sciences/NCFMR/documents/FP/guzzo-payne-age-birth-fp-18-25.pdf

FWIW, I met my DH at 29, married at 34, had my first child at 37. But I have a graduate degree and the more education you have, the older these averages tend to be.

I'm an above poster who got married at 25, baby at 29. I have a double graduate degree and DH has an MBA. We just knew what we wanted. Not everyone who marries young in uneducated.

[Anonymous]

I have lived her for 10 years and only know one couple who met and got married in DC. They met at a party in their early 30s, dated for a year, got engaged and moved in together and got married a year later.

I know a ton of 40-50 yr olds who never married

[Anonymous]

Met at 26, engaged at 29, married at 31, first kid at 34.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It depends how old they are.

This. 20-somethings might date a few years before getting engaged because they have time. Most 30-somethings I know got engaged within 6-18 months.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Met at 26. Engaged at 27. Married at 28.

We actively waited to have kids until 34 though. Had a lot of fun and travel first.

We both had grad degrees and jobs when we met. Not uneducated as some think.

Met at work happy hour (each there from different work places/jobs) and were inseparable after that night.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Median age of first marriage for women in DC, us 30.4 years. It’s higher than any US state, though the city’s demographics (entirely urban, lots of professionals) skew our numbers versus a state with urban and rural areas. https://www.bgsu.edu/ncfmr/resources/data/family-profiles/payne-median-age-first-marriage-geo-fp-19-07.html

The mean maternal age at first birth is 29.7, again the oldest mean in the country. https://www.bgsu.edu/content/dam/BGSU/college-of-arts-and-sciences/NCFMR/documents/FP/guzzo-payne-age-birth-fp-18-25.pdf

FWIW, I met my DH at 29, married at 34, had my first child at 37. But I have a graduate degree and the more education you have, the older these averages tend to be.

I'm an above poster who got married at 25, baby at 29. I have a double graduate degree and DH has an MBA. We just knew what we wanted. Not everyone who marries young in uneducated.

Lol word, I was married at 25 and first baby at 29. Both my wife and I were getting our PhDs when we got married and had a baby right after we graduated.

[Anonymous]

Actually, all the people I know who got engaged after 18 months were in their mid-20s, though I think that they were very conservative, obviously, getting married young and quickly.