I'm 25 and was married at 23 and engaged at 20 (those 3 years were loooooong). I have a lot of people tell me I'm "too young to be a Mrs" when they meet me after seeing my name written down, which is a bit odd. Then others who think because I'm young and married, I must have a child somewhere (shotgun wedding type of thing) and tell me I've done well to "keep my figure" (had that when I was engaged too, asking if it was early days yet or tutting at me for buying wine). It got to the point where everything I wore after the first winter of our engagement was very fitted or cropped to show my stomach; I avoided anything baggy or even a size too large like the plague. I still have people write to me as "Miss XXX" after having met me, using my married name, which really annoys me. I have a huge diamond engagement ring and large wedding band I wear all the time, trust me, it's easy to see that I'm married.

So I guess I have the other problem - the marriage well before the children and people not realising that you marry for, ooh maybe religious or personal reasons other than just because you got pregnant.