<prompt> Human: We currently are in the middle of planning and trying to pay for our wedding, but we are sick of paying rent in the house we have. We take home roughly 70k a year combined. Major monthly expenses rent 575, utilities 75, 30 gas, 140 eating out, 400 groceries, 100 dog, 150 gym memberships, 65 internet, 150 in other. The way I have it figured is we can save roughly 2kmonth and houses around here that fit our needs are about 80k. We are also aiming to budget our wedding for around 15. Roughly 27k in student loans between us as well. The town we live in is not something we plan to stay in for more than 5 years, but as cheap as rent is its not going toward anything. We definitely have everything we need in the current place we just arent very proud of it and feel a little embarrassed to have friends and family come over. Any insight would be great.  <response>: For only 5 years, the amount of equity you build out of the monthly payments may not even cover buying and selling fees, taxes, maintenance, insurance, risks of not bring able to sell ect.Thats why the recommendation is to rent if you are in an area for less 5 years, because the costs of buyingowningselling outweigh the marginal amount of equity built. 