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If you have started looking for a marriage preparation course, there is a good chance you have already discovered that the term can mean quite a few different things. You might find a one-day workshop, a religious course, an online programme you complete yourselves, group sessions with other couples or something much closer to counselling. It can be difficult to know what you are actually signing up for, particularly if your relationship is happy and you are not looking for s

There is a strange pressure around getting married that suggests you should somehow already know everything important about one another by the time you get engaged. In reality, you can know someone deeply, love them very much and still not have talked properly about some of the things that will shape your life together. That is not a problem. It is simply one of the reasons marriage preparation can be so useful. When couples ask me what to talk about before marriage, I do not

When people are planning a wedding, they become incredibly good at thinking ahead. There are budgets to work out, venues to compare, guest lists to manage, photographers to choose and a hundred small decisions that suddenly feel very important. We put a huge amount of thought into how the day will look and feel, because we want it to be meaningful. What we do far less often is give the same kind of deliberate attention to the marriage that comes afterwards. Not because we do