Married Life: What are you looking forward to?

I'm looking forward to the feeling @FMP mentioned. I don't know what it will be like, but I'm pretty sure it's gonna happen and it will be awesome!

Living together, seeing a ring on his finger, being a team and sharing a last name, calling him my husband.

Whenever I talk to engaged people now I get so excited for them! I thought nothing would change after marriage, but in reality a lot did. I don't know how to describe it but a lot did. Being with my husband is just different and just more intense in everything. Our romance is more intense, our laughter is more intense, and even our fights are more intense. Our first fight after the wedding, I was shocked at how angry I was. I think it was because the level of commitment and trust just went up a notch. So excited for you ladies!

Buying a house! Possibly trying for baby #2

I'm looking forward to calling him my husband! And officially consolidating everything like bank accounts and being an official family with one last name. Also, we travel abroad to visit our families a lot so I'm looking forward to being able to say/feel like I'm going to visit our family and not just his or my family. Oh, also, after we get married we will each get a little paper in our ID's with the other person's name and ID number and we'll be able to do boring things for each other like pick up prescriptions and make doctors appointments for each other, which isn't "exciting" but will make life easier!

My favorite little thing is cuddling all the time. When he gets home, he'll join me on the couch and we just lay there and cuddle for a little bit before we get up and do things. It's awesome

My favorite adult-y thing is budgeting together. Sounds nerdy, but we've put together a pretty good system and are working towards paying down our debt. It's so nice to know that we are doing it all together. We've paid off 2 credit cards so far!

Having another ring on my finger.

Only kidding (partially) haha but mostly the same things as all of you. Calling him my hubby, seeing the ring on his finger, the closeness I'm imagining it will bring. It's fun to be a team

Just because it's on my mind...practicing making babies

Serious answer: Living together, so get to see him even on those days when I work late or he has a kickball game.

SIDEBAR: As a budget nerd, I have to say CONGRATS to @Kassy for paying off 2 credit cards! That's awesome!!!

I look forward to saying I am married! Of course calling FH my husband, ans he calling me his wife. I look forward not being the only couple that's not married. I look forward to building our family. FH already has a daughter that he adores and she adores him. Looking forward to having that same love from my child. I look foward to encouraging our children that marriage is a blessing.

Thanks frugal_gator! It's only a small start, but we're super excited to get everything paid off. Checking those off the list was so damn satisfying, haha.

This is going to sound super boring but...having him on my insurance.

FH hasn't "worked" in two years, he's writing a novel and works karaoke/dj gigs.

He doesn't often get sick but when he does, he has NO insurance. I'm looking forward to being able to take him to the doctor when he needs it, and not the ER.

Just being his Wife & him being my Husband

AND BABIES

Having the best good morning kiss and best cup of coffee waiting for me every morning and having a place to warm my feet every night! Behind his KNEES ladies, I'm not that mean to put them in delicate places! Knowing that after 43 years and uh 80 pounds he still wants to hold hands in public. Everything else is icing on the cake.

We didn't change much in our relationship (or plan to), but I've been really happy just to know we're married and things are set and there are way less legal issues if something happens to one of us (we had commonlaw status before but that's a lot harder to track and the laws around it change occasionally).

(and not babies, but it's crazy how much they've come up already in this thread)

I'm so excited to live with him (and our dogs!), and all that entails. And yes being done with the stressful aspects of wedding planning hahah

Having our relationship be taken more seriously was number one for me. This ties into it but also what VMDIZZLE said, it was weird still calling him my boyfriend after 9 years together. It didn't feel like an accurate term. Fiance was a little better but I like husband best of all.

We'd been living together and had our finances combined for a while so that wasn't any different

I have enjoyed the small shifts in how we relate to each other. I love it how if he starts to leave the house without his wedding ring he goes back for it. I love how we are starting to talk about managing finances as a team and how it feels like we have each other's backs more if one person needs it. And I love calling him my husband and hearing him refer to me as his wife. I wanted this for many years, got a little freaked out about what a big commitment it was around the time of the wedding and now I am easing into it and feeling great about it.

Moving out of our apartment (and getting away from our incompetent, shitty landlord) and finding our starter house And starting a family. And calling him my Husband

Building our lives together!

I love how our blended family gel so well together. With 4 teenage girls we are looking forward to being empty nesters.