Engaged Couples
Congratulations on your engagement!
This is the start of new beginnings. You are excited and look forward to your wedding day, where you will become "Husband & Wife." We are excited for you and encourage you not to lose these feelings in the future. We want to encourage you to dream together for your future.
We know that there will be a lot of planning in order to have that "perfect" wedding day including location, guest, wedding party and of course the budget. We encourage you to invest some of this time and energy towards your marriage, after all the wedding is a one-day event, marriage is a life-time commitment with each other.
Some suggestions are:
Putting some of the wedding resources of time, energy and money towards marriage-preparation, which would include:
Taking a pre-marriage inventory designed for engaged couples. This personalized profile will help you know what issues you may have some differences in.
Don't avoid discussing conflicts because you don't want to think that "you made a mistake". Put any two people together and they will have different views on most topics.
Attending a marriage-related communication & relationship workshop will provide you with skills to discuss these topics and come up with solutions that will work for both of you.
Continue to have alone time with each other and to have "fun" during all the preparation.
Dream of how your relationship will look like in 5 or 10 years and take the steps to insure those dreams.