The First Dance offers Marriage Preparation Online or at Home. Get wedding discounts for qualifying purchases!
Money: A Top Marriage Stressor ($25)
This award winning game will get you and your partner talking about your ATTITUDES on money...spending, saving, security.
No matter what your money views, there is no "right or wrong." A few big "a-ha" moments may greatly help your wedding and married life. read more
Take Back Your Wedding
A unique book covering all the interpersonal drama of wedding planning. No matter where you are in your planning, reduce conflict and avoid the "emotional landmines" that arise in wedding planning. read more
E-Book download version $12.99
Buy on Amazon here
Wedding Help
- The Hour of Engagement Bliss
- Wedding Vendor Complaints They'll Never Share!
- Saavy Questions to Ask All Wedding Vendors
- Eloping: Avoiding Family Drama or Stirring it Up?
- Can You Afford a Small Wedding?
- What Wedding Planning Taught Me About Marriage
- What Are You Bringing To Your Marriage: Wedding Registry Guide
- Stress and Teamwork
- Wedding Priority Worksheet (PDF download)
- What Do You Want Out Of Your Honeymoon? (Interactive couple guide)
- After the Honeymoon
Common premarriage questions
- How much does premarriage counseling cost?
- We're quite happy, what would we gain from premarital counseling?
- What's the difference between premarital counseling and "regular" couples counseling?
- My fiance doesn't want to go - what can I do?
- We aren't in the same state! What can do?
- My parents are divorced. Does that have any impact on our chances of divorcing?
- What are the differences between counselors, clergy, educators?
Premarital Counseling in California
Local California Wedding Vendors offering Discounts
The First Dance won a Modern Bride Magazine Trendsetter award for tackling the complex interpersonal relationships in wedding planning. Wedding planning brings up all the issues you will face as a married couple - budgeting, team work, who is part of your community (guest list.)
A wedding is the most complex interpersonal event of your lives and it happens at the beginning, before you've spent decades working hard to learn the nuance of each other and your families.
Wedding planning can be thrilling and maddening - sometimes at the same time. We have a wide variety of CA premarital counseling and California marriage preparation options (scroll below counselor list.) We also have a TELEPHONE listing. Check out the California Premarital Classes Page for more CA Marriage Prep Options.
California Premarital Counselors
- Agoura Hills: Cynthia Horacek
- Albany: Pat LaDouceur
- Camarillo: Dr. Clarence Hibbs
- Cupertino: Kalpana Asok
- Daly City: Ruby Kamaka
- Davis: Sharon Thompson Wilson
- Encino: Dr. Judith Sherwin
- Irvine: Kathleen Wenger
- Laguna Beach: Sheila Diskin
- Los Gatos: Barbara Witney
- Newport Beach: Suzan Aldimassi
- Pasadena: Andrew Whaling
- Pleasant Hill: Josh Gressel, Ph.D.
- Rancho Santa Margarita: Dr. Karen E. Rippy
- Sacaramento: Sharon Thompson Wilson
- Redwood City: Dr. Ann Langley
- San Francisco: Dr. Michelle Gannon
- San Francisco: Dr. Patrick Gannon
- San Francisco: Jamie Katoff
- San Clemente: Dr. Karen E. Rippy
- San Jose: Bich "bick" Nguyen-Hamilton
- Santa Monica: Lynne Azpeitia
- Santa Monica: Sheila Bost
- Solana Beach: Rebecca Jorgensen
- Solana Beach: Steven E. Meineke
- Studio City : Dr. Judith Sherwin
- Tustin: Beverly Jewell (telephone option)
- West Lake Village: Dr. Nancy Gardner
- West Lake Village: Susan Tschudi
- West Lake Village: Glori R Zeltzer, M.A.
- Ventura: Glori R Zeltzer, M.A.
