Welcome to CouplesQuestions Blog!
Welcome to the first ever blog entry for our soon to be launched website CouplesQuestions.com!
CouplesQuestions.com is for engaged or newly married couples (or for couples who have just moved in together, for that matter) who want to spend a little time planning their relationship and making it better. We decided to start a companion blog for our site because we felt a little restricted writing for the web and constantly found ourselves cutting and editing, but really there are so many topics and tangents to be explored around marriage and relationships we felt we had to find a way to get more expressive. Blogging, it seems, is a way for us to do just that.
Our site (launching soon!) came about for several reasons, but initially it evolved because of our (my gorgeous husband Dan, and I) fantastic experience with pre-marriage counselling and our surprise at the fact that so few couples, it seems, participate in such a thing. When we did an online search for pre-marriage planning, other than links to religious organisations, all we got were wedding planning sites. Now, there are some terrific wedding planning sites out there, and I certainly don't mean to knock them, but we were interested in finding a site that would help us focus on our relationship. The wedding cermony and celebration we already had covered.
It continues to astound us the amount of money (Did you know that in the US, the cost of the average wedding is a little over $22,000? In Canada it is only slightly less.) and energy and effort and detail that goes into planning the average wedding. I mean it can be exhausting just thinking about it. Our mission with this blog and with our website is to shift a little focus from the WEDDING to the MARRIAGE. We want to encourage couples to spend a little time and a little effort on making their relationship better by asking important questions, learning more about their partner and working on goals that will ensure a fabulous future together. We absolutely support the importance of have one's dream wedding -- it should be an incredibly, wonderfully memorable day for you both!-- we just want to spread the word that the relationship needs some of that energy and effort, too.
We got so much out of our pre-marriage counselling and always recommend it to people we know who are getting married, but nobody ever seems to do it. Is it the cost? Is it the idea of taking the time out of your schedule? Is it the privacy issue or the discomfort of talking to a stranger about your personal issues? Whatever the reason, we hope that this blog and CouplesQuestions.com will provide an alternative to formal counselling that will help couples strengthen their relationship.
So that's us. Looking forward to more!
Happy Couples, Happy Planet!
posted by Heather and Dan @ 7:54 PM
1 Comments :
I am looking forward to the launch of your site. Good to know you are both proponents of pre-marital counseling, and I have always been of the opinion that it is more important to plan a marriage than a wedding. But maybe I am just a dysfunctional girl and never got into the whole "playing bride" thing. :-)
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