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 Price: $5.00

The individual couple program is an 85 minute DVD for marriage educator pricing of $5 that presents principles, advice, and stories to help engaged couples and their parents with couple and family relationships in wedding planning.  The DVD is a presentation by Bill Doherty, a nationally recognized marriage therapist, award winning teacher, and co-founder of The First Dance. It shows how couples can work together as a team, regardless of who handles more of the responsibility for wedding planning, and emphasizes the importance of values in making decisions about weddings.  This first section ends with ideas for how parents can work as a team with the couple, including challenges such as negotiating financial arrangements and guests lists.   At several suggested places in the DVD, you can pause the presentation and discuss how it fits your situation.

The second part of the DVD describes the family dynamics of wedding planning, with principles for dealing with family members and the wedding party.  There are many examples and stories, some from engaged couples and parents in the live audience.  The presentation is wise and practical, sometimes moving and sometimes humorous.  No bells and whistles or fancy studio props—just a presentation by a therapist and educator who brings the combined wisdom of his thirty years of professional experience and his daughter Elizabeth’s grounding in today’s generation of couples planning of their weddings. 

No matter where couples are in the planning wedding process—a newly announced engagement or the big day around the corner—this program can help.

Fill out the Contact Us form if you are wanting more than 40 copies at once. Also Contact Us if you want us to invoice you (only available on orders over $100, though we greatly prefer credit card payments.)

What you will learn from The First Dance DVD:

  • How you can work together as a team in planning your wedding
  • How you can help each other over the inevitable rough spots
  • How to understand your families better, especially when they are difficult
  • How to negotiate differences with parents or your adult children
  • How to avoid common mistakes in dealing with in-laws or your child’s future in laws
  • How to deal with difficult and impossible people
  • How to stay focused on your values in dealing with everything and everybody
  • If parents and engaged couples watch the DVD together, you may benefit from new insights into how to work together in wedding planning.