Marriage Discovery Weekend
A marriage preparation weekend for engaged couples, it provides time away from the hectic period preceding your wedding, allowing you to set priorities for your future together.

Day of Discovery
Designed to give couples the opportunity to dialogue openly and honestly about their relationship, strengths and weaknesses, and their personal faith as it relates to their marriage.

Interfaith Marriage Preparation
Two Churches, One Marriage is a free, Web-based program that explores the challenges that interfaith couples may encounter, as well as strategies for dealing with those challenges.

Step-Family Workshop
Designed to help couples through the difficult period of entering (or in the early stages of) a second marriage, it is for people with with children of all ages.


Marriage Preparation

Why Prepare for Marriage?

We believe the important things in life, the things that demand responsibility, take preparation. You prepare for your careers so you will be successful in your chosen occupations. Through preparation, you minimize the chances for failure. Marriage is no different. You need to prepare for marriage to increase your chances of success in this vocation of love.

In today's world, increasing demands and stresses are continually being placed on marriage and the family. It is, therefore, all the more important for you to prepare for the awesome responsibility involved in keeping your love alive and growing.

Another equally important reason is that marriage in the Catholic Church is a sacrament, and as such is significantly different from the image of marriage that we see in the world around us.




Catholic Wedding Planner Available Online

CatholicWeddingPlanner.com facilitates a collaborative online interaction between clergy and engaged couples planning wedding liturgies.  It's easy, complete and faithful.    It is reviewed and licensed by the USCCB and ICEL. 

ngaged couples find a step-by-step liturgy planning process that lets them view, rate and choose their liturgy options, from Opening Prayer to Solemn Blessing.  It is a great help for couples perplexed by what is often their first attempt at liturgy planning.   When finished, couples can easily convert those same choices into a worship aid for the congregation
                                                                                                                                                
Designed with and for clergy, this site saves priests time.   Each couple account is linked to the account of their priest, deacon or lay pastoral minister.   So each couple's online experience is uniquely configured by the preferences of the clergy working with them.    Clergy receive a complete ceremony printout containing the full text of all readings and prayers, as well as a complete listing of all music, readers and bridal party.   Clergy can even predetermine the content of congregational programs. 

For weddings after November 27, CatholicWeddingPlanner.com integrates the texts of the new Roman Missal.

This service is always free for clergy, and, with couple subscriptions from $4.50 to $6.50 (to access copyrighted texts) it is a very affordable service for the engaged.