<prompt> Human: Im engaged and getting married the end of this summer, woo! So my question is, what is the common route to handle the money between the two? I make 62K a year, she makes 50k.She doesnt have any credit cards, and I have 3.We both have checking accounts.So I guess my question is do we create one checking account together? Or keep them separate? What is the common route? Thanks everyone!  <response>: We combined our checking accounts credit cards and pay ourselves a mutually agreed upon allowance for discretionary spending whatever the hell we want to buy. That way I can splurge on things for myself and she cant say anything about those purchases. When we do better financially we up the allowance amount. edit: for the credit cards we each have one in our name to build credit but the other has a supplementary card. 