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Evening all!
I've not been in the RAF long and have heard various answers regarding this issue. I have joined at the age of 28, am not married but I am in a long term relationship and wondered if it was possible to apply for marriage quarters? Is it highly unlikely we would be accepted? How long does it take to sort out? Any advice or information on the subject would be greatly appreciated.
 
If you have any surplus MQs at your site, then you may be able to get one of those - but if anyone entitled comes along, you may have to move.
 
If your long term plan is marriage anyway, go and get a quicky (think of it as a paperwork excercise). Then, when you have the cash/time/inclination to do it formally, have a blessing you can invite family and friends to. Ive heard the ceremony for a blessing can be carried out to very closely match a formal wedding ceremony so that many folks wouldnt even notice the difference (unless you told them).
 
Interesting option there from sniffer, something I hadn't considered before. Looks like I may have to rent privately until I can afford a wedding, unless I get a quicky!
 
stellafella said:
Looks like I may have to rent privately until I can afford a wedding, unless I get a quicky!
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Or get a mortgage, especially seeing as rent can be more than monthly mortgage repayments? Personally, I wished I'd moved out of quarters and bought my own home way sooner than I did. Yes it's nice cheap rent but instead of putting the extra away towards the future, I p!ssed it away, made easier by living on camp. I've owned my own house for a few years now and I know some don't like to buy with the thought of posting every few years but I certainly wouldn't like to wait until I was due to leave the forces until I approached a mortgage lender.

Just my 2pence worth.
 
stellafella said:
Interesting option there from sniffer, something I hadn't considered before. Looks like I may have to rent privately until I can afford a wedding, unless I get a quicky!
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Do the maths and compare monthly local rent to Qtr rent. Multiply that by the number of months before you plan on getting married.

A quicky wedding soon becomes a lot more attractive 😁

Or like others have suggested take the plunge and get on the housing ladder (although this requires a pot of cash too and is not always a practical solution if frequent postings are likely).

I got married quite quickly (within 18 months of meeting in fact). Lived in quarters and saved like mad for 4 years then bought our own gaff in an area we would be happy to settle in and suited potential future postings.

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Thanks for the advice, we already own a house in a place we would like to settle in after i'm finished in the RAF. We'll be renting this out when I get my first posting.
I do quite like the idea of buying a house as opposed to renting, however I don't think I qualify for the forces help to buy scheme yet (I think its 2 years service ?).
The 'quicky' option does make the most sense the more I think about it, would allow us to save for a proper wedding and honeymoon. Not sure if my other half would be overly keen on the idea and the in-laws certainly would not approve, but it definitely seems the wisest option.
 
Just dont tell them until after. Again thats how I played it 😁

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