Research shows that couples who engage in marriage preparation find the experience highly valuable. Many couples report that they get more than they expect. Couples stated that focusing on communication, commitment, conflict resolution and children was most helpful (Center for Marriage and Family, Creighton University, 1995).

Couples who engage in premarital preparation “feel a higher sense of partnership and report a higher level of adjustment to married life than couples that did not receive marriage education” (Family Relations, April 2003).

People who are happily married get sick less often and live an average four years longer than people who are divorced or unhappily married (Verbrugge & House, University of Michigan).

Marriage education can help set expectations for what is normal in relationships. It allows couples the opportunity to discuss important issues related to their future marriage and teaches them skills that actually aid in divorce prevention and serve to help create healthy, satisfying marriages. Time for Marriage is a one day marriage preparation workshop that offers a supportive environment and framework to address the normal issues and challenges that all couples face in course of their marriage.

Couples who take the class will enter their marriage armed with skills and the confidence that the marriage will not just succeed, but flourish.