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Background: An early marriage is a world problem related to various health and social consequences for adolescent girls. Designing effective health interventions to manage early marriage needs to apply a community-based approach. However, it has received less attention from policy makers and health researchers in Indonesia. Objective: this study aims to explore the determinants of early marriage from the perspective of married women and find out the impact on reproductive health. Method: This study was a qualitative descriptive study with a phenomenological approach. The research conducted in Ketundan Village, Banyusidi Village and Petung Village, Pakis District, Magelang Regency. The sampling method used selected respondents who fulfill the requirements using the snowball technique. The data was collected through face-to-face and semi-structured interviews and analyzed using a conventional content analysis approach. Results: The results of this study indicated that there were 3 majors themes in this study, namely 1). Some factors of early marriage with 6 categories of early marriage determinants, namely education, socio-cultural, internal, communication media, and parents; 2). the general impact of early marriage which includes 3 categories namely economic, family and education; 3) the impact of early marriage on womens reproductive health in 3 categories namely pregnancy, labor, childbirth. Conclusion: the research found that the practice of early marriage in Pakis Subdistrict, which covered three villages where the study was based on various factors underlying the practice of early marriage which had a general impact on economic, family, education problems and directly impacted womens reproductive health in the process of pregnancy, childbirth until the care of her child.