Skip to main content

Planning a Wedding

 A little different topic this week! We're going to be talking about planning a wedding. Now I'm not married and have never planned a wedding before, so this isn't going to be a guide on what you should buy or what colors you should include in your wedding. Instead, I'm going to be a guide on what the "enagagement period" of your relationship should and will entail, as well as how to manage it, and this just happens to include planning a wedding which is the biggest part of your time being engaged. 

To start off, it takes both people in the relationship to plan a wedding. Although the woman often cares a lot more about the details than the man does, this doesn't mean that the man shouldnt give any input or opinion into what is being planned. And vise vera, the woman should be able to let the man give his opinion and share what he wants as well as what she wants. Throughout the whole planning process, each person in the relationship should often be asking each other what their preferences are. 

Planning a wedding together can show a lot about your relationship and allow room for improvements. For example, whilst planning a wedding, you learn how to problem solve better together, you have a budget that you need to agree on, as well as compromise, and a lot of other things. 

Another aspect of the process of planning a wedding is money. The average american spends $28,000 on their wedding. Where does all this money come from? You could have some saving saved up that you use, or maybe you've worked extra hard the past year to save up for your wedding. But a lot of couples get the majority of their wedding expenses from their parents, whether that's from the husbands parents or the wife's parents or both. Think about the possibly problems this could bring up. Maybe the husband's family is significantly more wealthy than the wife's family, so they contribute to the majority of the budget. For the rest of that couple's lives, that husband's parents may sort of "hold it over their heads". The couple may have trouble decided who's house they're going to visit for the holidays, who's going to meet their grandbaby first? They may feel obligated to go to the husband's parents house because of the fact that they gave more money to them for their wedding. 

All in all, planning a wedding in general is a lot of work! It's up to you to know who will be benefiicial to the process and who won't outside of yor future spouse. You and your spouse however, should always work together. 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Problems and Solutions of Communication

    Hello everyone! This week kind of goes along with some of the things I talked about last week, but now I'm specifically going to go into more depth about communication. Communication is such a hard thing to master, and you most likely never will be a pro at it, but you can sure practice until you figure out a way both you and your partner are communicating successfully.     Communication, if done right, can save a relationship. Sometimes we may have no idea what is trying to be communicated. Sometimes we can guess, but still won't know exactly what the other person is trying to get across. Let's talk about the four things that make up communication, but can also get in the way of it. The four things are media, words, tone, and non-verbal. 14% of communication comes from words, 35% of it comes from tone, and 51% of communication comes from non-verbal meaning body language and actions. People mostly believe tone over words, and that's really important to remember w...
Post a Comment
Read more

Understanding Development

To start off, let's talk about the four age stages. There's birth- 2 years old, then 3-6 years old, 7-11 years old, and lastly 12-17 years old. In each stage, there are three domains. These include physical, cognitive, and socio-emotional.  Let's talk about the milestones that happen within each stage and go through them age by age: From ages birth-2 years old, your child may learn how to lift their head off of the ground, they may ley on their tummy. They will learn how to smile as well as how to vocalize. They will start to become aware of their body parts. The child will start to look selectively a well as maybe learning how to pull themselves up in a standing position. They will start to develop motor skills such as putting objects in a container. They will start to learn social referencing and problem solving. They'll learn how to walk and learn self-feeding skills. From ages 3-6 years old, your child will be able to think about objects, people, and events without ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Parenting

 Hello everyone! I absolutely love this week's topic, and that's why I picked it. Parenting! Parenting is such an amazing thing that so, SO many people get to enjoy. In this blog I'm going to talk about something called active parenting and how to achieve it because in all honesty, when I heard about it, it amazed me. There are also a variety of things that your children need so my goal is to make whoever reads this aware of what those are, because they are important. Active Parenting Some important aspects, these can be goals too, to remember while practicing active parenting is to teach your children to have respect. If you only teach your children one thing in life, it should be to have respect. Just like everything else, you and your spouse should work as one. Confidence in parenting is the consistency of both parents, in the action as well as in the punishment. If one of you says the child can't watch tv because they didn't take the trash out like they were ask...
Post a Comment
Read more