These days, people are marrying later and later. According to a Pew Research Center report from 2011, the average age of first marriage in the U.S. is 26.5 for women and 28.7 for men, up from 24 for women and 26 for men in 1990.
But there are still plenty of people tying the knot in their late teens and early 20s. Below, 16 people share why they did so on Whisper, an app that lets users share their deepest thoughts anonymously.
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