Before You Say "I Do": A Marriage Preparation Manual for Couples

by Wes Roberts and H. Norman Wright

Book Overview

Build a Love that Lasts At a time when more people are delaying marriage or writing it off altogether, couples ready to walk the aisle will appreciate a frank and trusted resources to help them start... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1565076370
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.3" x 0.5" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Every couple needs to read this together

Its a great devotional. It tackles issues you may overlook and I encourage you to read it together with your partner.

Fun thing to do together!

My Fiance and I have really enjoyed doing this together and we plan on keeping it up even after we get married!!

Great Help in Communication Lots of Fun

We purchased two copies of this book. We live 100 miles apart right now and are working on one chapter at a time together. We meet on weekends and discuss the chapter and questions. (We actually finished just before New Year's Eve.)Many of the items had already come up in our discussion, but this has opened up other areas such as goal setting. If your spouse to be doesn't have the energy to plan and prepare now, what does that say about how she or he will treat the rest of life. We have the benefit of both being over 40. If you you are a young person, please take seriously the need to plan. The passion doesn't have to leave, I agree, but you have to plan and do the work to support the long term growth of that passion. A book like this will help. If you are not a person of faith this book will be of little value to you. If your fiance is not a person of faith this book could be pretty difficult. If you think YOU can SAVE your finance, then you both need to read something other than this. That is a whole different issue.After getting through the entire book - I can say that some of the questions are a bit repetitive - but all and all it is something I strongly reccomend for Christians considering marriage.

Great resource for engaged couples

When I was engaged, this book was given to me by a friend who was also currently engaged. She had really enjoyed working through the exercises with her fiance (now husband) and so she passed it on to me. Me and my fiance (now husband, also) really enjoyed this book as well. The questions it asks are thought and conversation provoking, which is exactly what engaged couples need!Be forewarned though, that this book is REALLY religiously minded (references many Bible passages) but don't let that turn you off if you're not a religious person. My husband & I are not AT ALL religious, but we got JUST as much out of the book (we simply skipped the pieces that didn't apply to us).I recommend this book to anyone planning on getting married -- in fact, I just sent a copy to a friend of mine who just got engaged.

A real nuts and bolts Christian marriage manual

Before you say I Do is a wonderful tool in assessing whether or not the person you are dating is truly "the one". The chapters deal with a number of different aspects concerning compatibility between people. My favorite chapter deals with the "what ifs" of life and provokes couples to compare how they would handle lifes difficulties.I have used this tool with a number of different couples in premarital counseling resulting in some wonderful revelations about where the couples were and where they were going.Use this manual if you really want to discover where you and your prospective mate stand on the important issues of life.