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mummy2girls wrote: before getting married who had to go through the marriage prep course... Me and marcus is starting our course next week with our pastors.. marcus says to him... we watched liscenced to wed last night is it goign to be like that because if so i must bring some armor...GOOF! Our pastors are pretty cool people so im looking forward to it im just nervous!

lisar replied: I did. I thought it was funny. We kinda had fun with it. We had to take a compatability test and if it came back wrong then the preacher wouldnt marry us. It came back okay obviously. But me and dh joked constantly in that class, I think the preacher was anoyed with us by the end of the 6 weeks.

TheOaf66 replied: Jennie and I got to do ours at home via cassette tape (we lived 4 hrs away from where we were gettin married) It was kind of a joke

luvmykids replied: We did, the way our church does it is in an 8wk class and at the end you both take this "quiz" and it's passed on to whichever pastor is going to marry you so he knows what else you might need to get straightened out one on one.

mom21kid2dogs replied: We did. It's required in the US Catholic Church. we went to a pre cana weekend. It was actually very nice. Not only did we get a much needed break from all the hassles of planning a wedding, but the weekend was informative, spiritually enlightening and well planned. We had already talked about most of the issues presented (we dated for about 18 months before we got engaged) but it was fun to meet other couples and newlyweds whom we could relate to.

boyohboyohboy replied: we did and ours was so much fun..we really learned a lot about each other.. and also took the compatability tests...we found out that we were just about the same on everything..
and it was a good thing, it made sure you talked about all the important things before getting married..
we really enjoyed ours, and it also made us feel closer to the pastor who married us...

mysweetpeasWil&Wes replied: Does couples counseling count? laugh.gif No prep course for us. But the counseling really did help get some things off our chest. DH had some fears about marriage, I had some hangups with my past...We got it resolved and moved into a healthy relationship (marriage). Have fun!!! wub.gif

luvbug00 replied:

that sounds like what's gonna happen to lars and myself! lol!

It should be fine and who knows what you may dicover about each other that you don't already know thumb.gif

Cece00 replied: We werent married in a church & we were married by a non-denom pastor so luckily we didnt have to...DH and I arent into religion.

redchief replied: Heheheh... Pre-Canaa weekend = Catholic version of Shotgun wedding. wink.gif

We went to pre-Canaa.

I'm curious about the compatibility tests some alluded to... What's the point of that? I've taken such tests with Lisa and failed miserably. I wonder if that's some churches attempts to curtail divorce?

luvmykids replied:
I dunno....ours didn't have that, but it did have lots of questions about things like finances, etc just to point out the areas where more discussion might be needed BEFORE getting married laugh.gif

~Roo'sMama~ replied: We did pre-marital counseling with the man who used to be the youth pastor at our church. He had some good insights for us, and we just had a good time meeting with him. happy.gif

mom21kid2dogs replied:
We took the Myers Briggs Personality Inventory. Self reported, self scoring. I don't recall that it was was supposed to determine compatability so much as point out personality tendencies and how those influence personal actions and reactions~kind of a Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus kind of thing. laugh.gif

What the heck is a Catholic shotgun wedding?

lesliesmom replied: My first marriage I got married in the Catholic church so we had to go through one of those. It was a joke. It was a friday-saturday "retreat" at a hotel with about 12 couples. We all had assigned rooms - girls with girls, guys with guys but by the end of the friday night session we had all agreed to swap rooms and be with our SO's. I remember one question was how does your SO squeeze the toothpaste and how do you feel about it? i.e. from the end or grab in the middle and squeeze. My second wedding was in Vegas so we didn't go through any of that.


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