Buying a House While Wedding Planning

I haven't juggled both but I know how stressful it is with buying a house in general because it moves so quick

Yup. Every once in a while I would poke around on Zillow because we were planning on saving up next year. Found the DREAM house on a whim and knew if we didn’t make it happen we would always regret it, so we are closing hopefully in early March and will be noting about three weeks before our June wedding.

I’m currently in the middle of planning my summer wedding and flipping the house we just bought. It’s definitely been a little crazy, but worth it. I recommend making sure your wedding to-do list is in a good place because wedding planning definitely took a back seat to home improvement and moving. Good luck

Same!!! Wedding is in 2 months and we bought a house. Moving out this next friday coming up. Super crazy. Moving this next week bridal shower the weekend after, bridal shower with FH's family out of town 3 weeks after that, then wedding one month after that. Super stressful at the moment. Not going to lie. Once the house is taken care of it will be a lot better.

We had the opportunity but decided to just choose one stress! We chose the wedding. Good thing because I lost my great job in the middle of planning and our wedding went over-budget. All worked out but so glad we prioritized the wedding first! A mortgage is a lot longer than wedding costs.

We just closed last week on our new house (60 days out from our wedding). Never been more stressed in my life. And we have our old house to sell still. The purchase process was horrible as we had all kinds of issues but we’re done and moved in. Our story was much like yours (casually looking, low interest rates, found one we had to move on quickly, etc.). I’m still here and kicking (but just barely) Lol. BUT, in all seriousness it will be worth it in a few months and once we’re married our life won’t need any major upheavals. Our prior house was not going to work (way too small). And buying a house is like one of the top stressors so at least that’s off our plate. So I’m looking at this time of stress as an investment in a stress free time post-wedding.


Hang in there. You can get through it!

Yup! We had a five-month engagement and planned a wedding and ALMOST purchased a townhome in that span. We went to close three days before we left for our destination wedding. We ended up backing out because of issues discovered that were previously undisclosed by the seller. But! Had that not happened, we would have closed and left for our wedding and honeymoon in the same week!

Oh and to answer your question about what I prioritized, the house process came first. I already had all my vendors picked out so I was in the “design” stages of wedding planning. So I focused on the house for the month or so it took to close and somewhat took a break (although not really just didn’t pay for any big new wedding items that weren’t necessity at the time). Since real estate contracts have pretty strict time lines, I’d focus your efforts there. At the end of the day, the wedding is a one-time party, the house will be there forever.

We sold our first home and bought our forever home 6 months before our wedding it was very stressful (we had a few bad experiences with selling) i basically didn’t do any wedding planning in those few months or so because i was so stressed out but I had already had my big expenses for wedding paid off. Everyone says buying a house is hard but in my experience selling was 80000x more stressful it obviously just depends when we bought our first home it was a breeze not stressful at all.

Yes! We got engaged 12/2017. We bought a house 6/2018. We got married 7/2019. Throughout the year after we bought the house (and still now) we are renovating the entire house. It's just a matter of staying organized, planning & being efficient. The whole home buying process took us about a month and a half (loan approval, looking, closing).

My FH and I started looking at houses beginning of 2019. Our market is crazy and put 7 offers in. We got engaged on June 8, 2019 and 2 weeks later finally got accepted! That was a huge set back on finalizing on our date. We moved in August and put the house first. We had no hamy downs so we had to buy everything new pretty much. We decided 2019 was house. 2020 is wedding planning and saving and 2021 is the wedding. Having a 25 month engagement hasn't been all that bad. I have 16 months left to go! Its just hard for us to save right now due to it being after the holidays.