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The First Dance helps you
Take Back Your Wedding
Marriage Friendly Wedding Planning: where people, values and relationships come first
Modern Bride Trendsetters 2007
What happens when you get wedding advice from a marriage and family counselor and "been there, seen that, heard that" daughter that directly addresses the complex maze of family emotion, loyalty, couple, parent 
and in-law dynamics that bubble up in wedding planning?
- A big "amen!" from wedding coordinators who love our wedding advice ?
- A huge following of people of all walks of life -marriage therapists, parents, engaged couples (brides AND grooms), premarital educators who rave about our advice?
- A huge sigh of relief because you finally found the rare, hard-to-find advice that actually makes SENSE and feels right?
- A lightbulb moment when you realize and can explain why, " I never have to deal with my annoying in-law again, that's the job of my spouse-to-be!?"
- A guide to making the most out of your wedding because it reflects your values, not the pressures of what you "should do" in wedding land?
- An "uncommonly common sense" approach to wedding planning and marriage?
Yes....
We aren't going to advice you with "should's". We aren't going to take an anti-male attitude. We aren't going to ask you to excersize or breathe your way through the stress.
We will give you guiding principles, based on Family Systems Thinking (a model used in marriage and family therapy), to help you get a better understanding of what is going on around your problem and the most appropriate ways to deal with situations, knowing you can change nobody but yourself. Elizabeth sees now how the stumbling blocks in her engagement and early marriage could have been greatly avoided had she know then what she knows now...
The “first dance” is a metaphor for having those we love surrounding us as a couple and becoming a part of our new marriage.
Our website (and book "Take Back Your Wedding") is focused exclusively on the relationships in wedding planning! Wedding coordinators are raving about the much needed advice and marriage educators are using the book in premarital classes. Enjoy our newly expanding website including:
- wedding planning checklist (with lots of relationship advice)
- as part of our Wedding Stress Coaching we offer free personal advice
- log in and register to join our spam-free mailing list to get wedding vendor deals or learn about other marriage-bound services like financial advisors, real estate agents, and more. Only WE email so you will never get a vendor soliciation!
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Blog
Top Wedding Stressors by Relationship
| Parents / In-Laws |
| Fiance / Fiancee |
| Siblings / Relatives |
| Friends / Wedding Party |
Top Wedding Planning Relationship Mistakes
Download Free Priority Setting Worksheet
| Guest List / Invitations |
| Inviting children or not |
| Which comes first - budget or guest list? |
Wedding Planning Checklists
| Wedding Checklist |
| with relationship advice |
Wedding services & supplies for brides and grooms in Minnesota, Iowa,Wisconsin and Colorado. |
Read all the testiomonials for our wedding relationship book! "Anyone involved in planning a wedding can benefit from this book. It addresses true-to-life issues that everyone deals with in one way or another during the planning process. It's about time someone talked about those issues, and gave practical solutions for dealing with them. I know I will refer to this book often when working with my brides and grooms!" Kristen Samz, Consultant |
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