<prompt> Human: Hi personalfinance!I am soon to be wed to the love of my life : However, I am a graduating college senior, and beyond working hard and budgeting for food and simple bills like gasoline, Im relatively new to managing money as an adult, much less an adult with a wife to care for. So, Im here for general advice about managing moneybuying health insurancesaving for a car for hercollege debt managementetc. Anything anyone can think of that would be good for a newly-wed couple to know about healthy management of our money.A little info about me: I work at a pizza place, delivering pizzas. The pay is minimum wage tips. I can easily make 10-15 an hour though, with the tips. That is going to change here soon, and I will be moving to another state to intern, and once we are married, she will join me. The internship is unpaid until I get my school credit, and then I will transition into a paid internship with the intent of full-time hiring. Its a good deal, Ive been told by my college adviser. Not many interns get offered paid positions with consideration for being hired, apparently. It is a live sound company, and I will work as an audio engineering assistant, if that is relevant. I am about to graduate with a B.S. in Audio Engineering and Producing. My bride-to-be took a break from college to plan this wedding and get some savings behind us, and would very much love to go back to college, and I intend to enable her to do so. To be honest, I am nervous about our financial situation and want to be proactive about this as we draw closer to our life together!!Thank you to anyone who comments with advice! I very much appreciate it, in advance.  <response>: Howdy.First off, congrats on the wedding and internship and graduating and all that jazz!Been married for going on 5 years now. 2 kids.So step one, like everyone says, is TALK. Talk about money. But may parents didnt... Tough crap. The 1 reason for divorce is MONEY. So get that off the table and get on the same page with regards to budget and extra income spending and vacations and cars and houses and retirement and video game purchases and shoes and ect ect. The budget should not be used in any way to control each other. Just use the budget to know where your money is going instead of wondering where it went. Make sense?Secondly.. YOU DO NOT NEED A HOUSE. Read that sentence again. Seriously re-read it. Have your soon to be wife read it. Have her say it out loud. Make up a we dont need a house song and sing it together every day.Why do I make such a big deal? Because EVERY woman in the world gets married and says aww that was a nice wedding. Should we go look at a new house today or wait till tomorrow.Youre no where close to being able to buy one. BE MARRIED for a little. Enjoy it. Rent cheap. Get through those first few years together without having money fights over new roofs and water heaters and AC units and she liked the house but only if you remodel the whole thing and she didnt tell you this before you bought it but now you bought it and she hates it because she expected you would be remodeling it... And then you get a job in Florida and have to sell at a 50,000 loss.Kids... Oh shit talk about them NOW. Kids will fuck up your life if youre not on the same page. Look I got 2 of those little assholes and kids are fucking assholes and I love mine to death but if my wife and I werent United against the wrath of our kids we would be so divorced...Talk about how many. She staying home with them or are yall doing daycare? Ask around what daycare costs. Around Baltimore its at least a grand a month, I tell people budget 1500 around here and be happy if its less... 2 kids? 3 grand a month in daycare...Talk about this stuff. Thats your key. Do yall want a joint checking? Joint with each ownhis and hers? Joint but you each get x per week in cash? The more you talk the better. Dont buy a house. Good luck!Edit word 