<prompt> Human: My fiancé and I found a financial planner to help us work through our finances now that things are going to be joint. We have retirement accounts and a mid level understanding of finances in general. We dont own property or have kids yet so I dont understand how much information this guy is going to give me. Especially for 1000. The question is, are there less expensive resources out there for me to get a quality understanding of our financial plan moving forward?  <response>: Yes. You could read the sidebar here for the low cost of 0. Theres also a reading list there, and pretty much all of those books are going to be available at your library for check out. If you have a specific question as youre reading and learning, come back here and post it, or see if a few of the hundreds of finance and investing blogs have addressed and it get a group consensus that way. 