Welcome Parents
It can seem like a flash between children being in diapers and being engaged, and there is more advice available for that early stage of parenting than for the one you are in now. No one has to tell you that planning a wedding is one of the most challenging experiences of adult life. No one has to tell you that weddings are the joining of two families, not just two individuals, or that family relationships are complicated, with lots of ups and downs over many decades.
This generation of engaged couples is more independent than previous ones, older on average and with more income, but they also have more pressures to plan a perfect wedding. They may have mixed feelings about your input, craving it yet wanting to make their own decisions. Standards of etiquette are up for grabs in today’s world, making it difficult to know the best way to handle the logistics and the people. Our program can offer you valuable perspectives on what is happening to you and your family during wedding planning. It can help you navigate the challenges of negotiating for what’s important to you, based on your values, while at the same time respecting the values of the couple and the others involved. Parenting well through the wedding process is a great joy, and we hope to enhance this joy, and maybe decrease your stress, through our program.
To get you started, we are offering two free downloads from our book, Take Back Your Wedding:Managing the People Stress of Wedding Planning. Enjoy.
- Elizabeth Doherty Thomas, is a co-founder of The First Dance, along with Marriage and Family therapist father Dr. William J. Doherty. The First Dance was a Modern Bride Trendsetter award winner in 2007 for taking on the complex family dynamics of wedding planning. Read Take Back Your Wedding: Managing the People Stress of Wedding Planning
for more advice on working through the people stresses of wedding planning as a couple, with your families, and how to strengthen your upcoming marriage through this enormous first task of married life.
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First Reads
- The Hour of Engagement Bliss
- Who Pays for the Wedding?
- Should you Splurge? A Decision Guide
- Dilemas: Chosing A Wedding Party
- Beneath the obvious: Vendor Questions
- Wedding Budgets: How to Create a Smart Wedding Budget
- Wedding Budgets, Who Pays, and Decision Power
- Create the Guest List or Budget First?
- Do You Invite Children? How to Handle Uninvited RSVPs
Top Wedding Relationship Stresses & Tips
- Personal Advice - Free Advice
- Stress with Fiance, parents, siblings, friends, wedding party, relatives...
- First Dance Etiquette in Todays Complex Families
- Why Won't People RSVP?
Top Wedding Mistakes
- Wedding Etiquette
- Top Guest List Mistakes
- Wedding Checklist Landmines
- Wedding Invitation Etiquette
- Mistakes around Chosing to Invite Children
Stuff to Purchase
- Shopping Cart
- Couples and wedding professionals love our book, Take Back Your Wedding
- Couple DVD - similar to our book but 85 quick minutes, watch with groom or parents
- Take a mini-premarital counseling inventory online now! Given to over 1 million couples worldwide. Now under $30!
- Personalized, marriage-focused wedding stress relationship advice
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