Premarital Counselling

We went through Precana, which is the Catholic premarital counselling. We found it interesting because they spark a lot of conversation. We are very open with each other, so there wasn't much about each other that we didn't already know. Plus they also had conversations about budgeting and living together, but we have lived together for years and we have a monthly budget already. I feel that the others who attended the classes that don't currently live together was able to get more out of the class than we did, but we found it enjoyable either way.

We also did the Catholic Church premarital counselling. We did it with the priest who organized it but we grew to like him so he’s actually our priest for our wedding!


It was a once a week class for 7 or 8 weeks - each week had a different topic. There was a book you had to complete with some questions etc. It wasn’t for us but we got what we needed to out of it (ie communication skills!) and it ticked off the box so we could get married!

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View quoted message Oh that’s really nice; we are doing ours with a therapist. It’s a 12 week program: where we are supposed to discuss what marriage means to us and our expectations, positive argument tools etc. I’m excited but nervous; it feels like I’m about to be graded on a test haha 😂😂

We did the catholic marriage classes. not sure if thats what you mean. but if so we signed up for the weekend retreat which is only twice a year. it was saturday and sunday all day at a local church. we had mass, we spoke about all hard topics, finances, cleaning the house, job loss, family planning, in laws, chores, morals, values etc. we did quizzes and workbooks. we also were separated and had to answer tons of questions then got back to each other and had to discuss the things we didnt see eye to eye on. for us it wasnt a big deal at all we own a condo together so we already know who cooks, cleans, grocery etc. and we have been together for years so we already navigated in laws and holidays lol

Were getting married in the church so we had to do marriage classes. It was a 2 day thing so definitely it takes a chunk out of a weekend but honestly it was nice. Though we didnt agree with some of the teachings and views of the church, it was just nice to be together, focus on us, no distractions, talk about things. The course was essentially a bunch of videos on communication, intimacy, faith, etc and after each video they required us to do some couples activities and discuss so it was nice to have that time to talk about things!