Advice Please! Young couple needing to relocate (rent or buy)?

[snafu]

Not only do you have a ton of debt...you plan to add it it with wedding expenses. How secure is your job/fiancee? This economic mess has not yet reached bottom nor spin out parameters.

You asked for advice and it has been offered with the best of intentions by people who understand the underlying pitfalls.

[LivingAlmostLarge]

Get married first then buy? I say that because I've tons of friends (including myself) who bought before marriage. Most never make it to the alter. My DH and I were the exceptions from everyone we knew.

Even now when we mentioned we bought while living together, or if it comes up in a conversation in a group of people, everyone else says "get married before buying."