Let me say this. Go with this thought - after the wedding it will be just a downhill and all the bad things in your partner will become worse. If you can live with that - cool, go and marry your partner. But if you honestly will think about it and think like "it will be better" or "he/she will change/stay the same" or "after wedding it will be much better" - you are screwed. You cannot bet your life on "it will be only better". Those things dont work like that, I see way to many people divorcing because they made this bet.

I hate the way to young people marrying out of "it makes sense" while guy goes to strip clubs every weekend and girls dream about some sexy guy taking them for a date. Its sick and sounds like pathology. Its really, really wrong.

Mortgage/Taxes is not the reason to get married. Love is. If you call me romantic, I am sorry, but it seems you didnt really seen true love.