The Best Age to Get Married

Longtime couple Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake are engaged. Nice! This twosome seem to have a lot going for them—they’re both gorgeous, talented, and great at keeping deets of their love life on the DL. According to the experts, they have something else on their side that ups the odds they’ll live happily ever after: their age.

The Magic Number
Experts swear couples have the best odds of making it for the long haul if they wait until 25 to get hitched. And at 29 (JB) and 30 (JT), these two are in a great position to have a happy, stable marriage. There are practical reasons for the mid-20s dividing line, and most of them boil down to two biggies: education and money. Turns out, the more years of higher education a woman has under her belt on her wedding