OK, let’s review, for all you readers out there who plan to get married one day, there are plenty of things to look out for.
From dress shopping to planning rehearsal dinners, things can get very overwhelming.
It’s important to keep in mind that the reason you are getting married is because you love the other person so much that you want to officially promise to be with him or her until the day you die.
If the plans get too overwhelming, don’t let them interfere with that love. You can always elope. My fiance makes me promise almost daily that before I’ll get too frustrated and say “forget it!” we will board the first plane to Vegas.
We have been through a lot in our plans and we have even gotten to know each other better through the turmoil. Don’t get me wrong, plenty of the planning has all it’s cracked up to be; there are just those few trying times.
If I could offer the most important advice that I’ve learned throughout the course of this whole thing, it’s to remain focused on your significant other. I would recommend to anyone who cares to listen some type of engagement seminar or premarital counseling.
I think that if more people would go through this kind of thing before saying “I do,” we’d have a lot less divorce in our society. You truly learn things no matter how many seminars you go to or how much you think you may know about that other person.
There are things that simply don’t come up on an ordinary basis, but that are important to discuss; things that need to be worked out ahead of time to avoid major confrontation if it were to happen in the future.
At these engagement seminars, they often bring up topics of discussion that have not been thought of before, but that could make a huge difference in your life.
For example, if you were going to have a baby and you found out during the pregnancy that it was going to be severely mentally handicapped, what would you do when presented with the option for abortion? You’d be surprised how many people who don’t believe in abortion who would opt for it in a situation like this.
Now, I know that this is not a common thing, but it is still something that you should talk about ahead of time.
If nothing else, it will really expand your knowledge of the other person.
There are many other similar discussions that evoke conversation. Anyway, that is the one thing that I would like to leave with you.
This is my last article of the semester and I will see you all next semester with my new last name and my wonderful new husband. Maybe I’ll have even more warnings for you after a couple of months of marriage.

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