In hindsight I think my mother deliberately didn't get married until her late 20s due to marriage ban, she was a teacher and it was lifted for teachers in 1958, lo and behold she got married late that year. She was the independent type and it had taken a lot to qualify as a teacher at that time, oil rations from neighbours used to do lessons to get scholarship to local Irish boarding school and onwards to Carysfort, eldest and only one who got that sort of education, wouldn't have been giving that up for any man!
She had been previously engaged to a German and would have been moving there where there was no ban which I'm sure influenced her decision to marry him but she changed her mind! Met my father shortly afterwards and they were married within the year. Can't ask her unfortunately as she died nearly 40 yrs ago but looking back now I'd be fairly sure this was the case.