The First Dance | Take Back Your Wedding

Wedding Planning Advice Dedicated to Managing the Couple and Family Dynamics of Wedding Planning | Modern Bride Trendsetters 2007

What happens when you get wedding advice from a marriage and family counselor and "been there, seen that, heard that" daughter that directly addresses the complex maze of family emotion, loyalty, couple, parent and in-law dynamics that bubble up in wedding planning? A safe haven for everyone to figure out how to plan the best wedding without ruining relationships? A guide to making the most out of your wedding because it reflects your values, not the pressures of what you "should do" in wedding land? An "uncommonly common sense" approach to wedding planning and marriage? Yes....

We aren't going to advice you with "should's". We aren't going to take an anti-male attitude. We aren't going to ask you to excersize or breathe your way through the stress.

We will give you guiding principles, based on Family Systems Thinking (a model used in marriage and family therapy), to help you get a better understanding of what is going on around your problem and the most appropriate ways to deal with situations, knowing you can change nobody but yourself. Elizabeth sees now how the stumbling blocks in her engagement and early marriage could have been greatly avoided had she know then what she knows now...

The “first dance” is a metaphor for having those we love surrounding us as a couple and becoming a part of our new marriage.

Our website (and book "Take Back Your Wedding") is focused exclusively on the relationships in wedding planning! Wedding coordinators are raving about the much needed advice. Enjoy our newly expanding website including:

• wedding chat on our forums
• wedding planning checklist (with lots of relationship advice)
• view weddings that reflect "real people", not high end magazine weddings (coming soon)
• share your unique money saving tips and we'll give you $25 if we use it
• top wedding stressors (coming soon)
• let's talk about the wacky world of marriage and family-life on our premarital classes via telephone - highly interactive, secular premarital counseling that believes you have wisdom to share with other engaged couples
• log in and register to join our spam-free mailing list to get wedding vendor deals or learn about other marriage-bound services like financial advisors, real estate agents, and more. Only WE email so you will never get a vendor soliciation!

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