Planning a wedding?

We are encouraged by how many couples have been using The Pre-Marriage Course as a tool to prepare for more than just their wedding day, but to build a strong marriage. This article from our friend, Communio Founder J.P. De Gance caught our attention.   

Are you planning a wedding and are you feeling overwhelmed by all the financial expectations?  Are your kids getting married (or delaying marriage) because of the financial stress? Are you mentoring or marrying young people?  We think this article would be worthwhile to read. 

Below is the first portion of his recent op-ed critique entitled Have Wedding Costs Gotten Out of Control? in the Wall Street Journal. 

“A wedding used to be the day a man and woman began their life together. Now, too often, it has become a production that stretches across several days of destination venues, open bars, designer dresses, farewell brunches and outfit changes worthy of a red carpet. None of these things are evil. A wedding should be joyful. But something has gone badly wrong when young people either take on debt or delay entering that holy union simply to absorb the costs for an expensive party.” … Click here to read the full article