Planning a wedding can be both stressful and exciting. For the months preceding it, it may seem like all plans revolve around cakes, centerpieces, picking music, premarital counseling, and deciding between having a meal at the reception or just hors d'oeuvres. While there is some time spent picking a place to live and moving into it, the bulk of the plans revolve around the actual wedding day. Yet, after the wedding day is over and you come back from your honeymoon, your homestead will be waiting for you. A little more time spent planning your move-in before the wedding will cause less … [Read more...]
Vacation Planning (or, “Where are we Going for Christmas this Year?”)
Marriage is such a gift with so many great times together; however, now that two families are joined into one, it can be a challenge to balance holidays with family and friends. Christmas, the most wonderful time of the year, may also be the most difficult time to balance each year. Why is that? Because Christmas is often a sentimental time we remember from our childhood, oftentimes, we want to maintain our childhood traditions throughout our adulthoods as long as possible. One Christmas tradition many people have is seeing their family on Christmas. So, if you and your (future) spouse were … [Read more...]
Korean Wedding Ducks
This last Saturday, Eric and I received a fun gift from a friend of ours who went to South Korea to teach English. She bought us two wooden ducks from South Korea. They came with the following explanation: The Wedding Duck is derived from an old Korean custom. When a couple gets married, the bridegroom gives his bride a pair of ducks. The Wedding Ducks symbolize eternal chastity; that’s why he gives her the ducks. If one duck dies, the other duck lives alone until it dies. The female duck ties her female beak with a string, which means the bride is prevented from nagging her husband by … [Read more...]
The Cure for Nagging
Nagging… in short, it's obnoxious and it does not produce desirable results. If you were to poll married men, or men who have been in a long term dating relationship, and asked them to list their top five things they absolutely cannot stand in male/female relationships, I would expect most of them to list nagging. Being nagged can feel like listening to nails on a chalkboard. While traditionally considered a female character trait, there are men who nag as well. They may prefer to call it “reminding” (as many women do); yet, at the end of the day, the recipient feels exactly the same after … [Read more...]
Knowing When to Propose
While I'm not a fan of The Bachelor or The Bachelorette, I did watch the finale of this season's Bachelorette. As always, the concept amazed… and saddened me. Here is a woman, dating a truckload of men and dumping most of them because there are other men at the house with better looks and qualities (at least from what she can tell in the short period of time she has there). After a few months she will accept one of their proposals, thereby sending the other men home in heartache and agony. Seriously?!? Have we, as a society, really come this far from God's design for courtship and … [Read more...]
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