I think that you may be looking for a moratorium. This is where you stop making all payments for an amount of time and the interest is then added on at the end of the stopped period and recalculated. I did this when I built my own house, as we could only afford the cost of the build payments, so as they released the second mortgage for the build, the first one went on hold for a year. It costs more, it extends the pain, but was the perfect result for us at the time, and no regrets. Co-incidently, I also got married last year, and I would agree with Flax to some extent. It is possible to have a wedding on a budget, and you have the rest of your life together, so be careful what debt you get into at this stage. (We went on our honeymoon 1 year after) One thing that helped us at the time was that whenever asked what gift we wanted, we found 20 different ways of saying cash. May sound crude, but was appreciated by most. Whether it was a tenner, or 100, it didnt matter, as we managed to cover over half the wedding costs.