'Til Death Do Us Part

Monday night we went to the orientation for our Marriage Prep classes.

When we finally made it to the right room, I moseyed up to the front row of tables and looked back at Michael expectantly. He stood at the back table, shaking his head at me.

I defended myself, claiming, "I'm short... I have bad vision... I'm excited...!" Which only elicited a typical Michael response: "Teacher's pet".

We both retreated to the middle row and waited for the other couples to fill in. Once the orientation began, we listened attentively as the instructor tried scare us into calling off our engagement; doodled on our papers as she droned on about rules if you're getting married at St. Anne's; and eagerly accepted the FOCUS questionnaires she passed out when she finished.

Everyone getting married in the Catholic Church is required to complete a 150-question survey about your relationship, problem solving methods, and views on life, religion, marriage, and parenting. The priest or assistant then compares your results with your partner's and discusses the results with both of you at a later date. It is meant as a means of making you question your compatibility with your partner and realizing what you should discuss more in depth before you get married.

It is very beneficial. And very hilarious.

If we weren't getting dirty looks from the instructor as we doodled through her directions about organists and rehearsals, we certainly got them when we giggled throughout the FOCUS questionnaire.

"Agree, disagree, or undecided: Our deep love for one another with prevent us from encountering conflict"

"Agree, disagree, or undecided: My partner never annoys me"

"Agree, disagree, or undecided: My partner's moodiness will not have a negative impact on our marriage" (If you know me, you should rolling on the floor right now).

Of course they weren't all so comical, but we enjoyed ourselves nevertheless. We have three more classes to complete in August and we're both hoping they won't be too painful : )

Update

Yet again, I realized that it has been a while since I updated this blog. However, as I looked back over the entries to see what I've written so far, I discovered that I was right on time.

First blog - April 12th.

Second & third blog - May 12th.

Today - June 12th.

Weird. I'll try not to wait until July 12th for the next entry : ) This past month has been very busy! In personal news, I officially graduated, spent a lovely month working for Banana Republic, and accepted a full-time position with Family Services of Greater Houston. As of June 21st I will be a Counselor/Case Manager for their THRIVE program and I couldn't be more excited. Michael also started his first few weeks as a full-time teacher at the New School. He is figuring out this whole curriculum, centers, and assessment thing and is dedicated to his students as always. Degrees, salaries, getting married... it's like we're grown ups or something.

Today also marks 105 days until our wedding!

It feels like time is speeding up and we'll be old married folks in no time.

Last weekend, Michael, Michael, and I went to Men's Warehouse to pick out the tuxes. I have to say, it was nowhere near as exciting as shopping for my wedding dress. Lol. We flipped through a book and finalized the different pieces within minutes. By the time Michael #2 showed up, we were perusing the navy suits (yes, navy) for my Michael's wedding day attire. I think I am most excited about seeing Colin in his own matching navy suit : ) Hopefully he'll put up with it until after the pictures.

Other than that, we're down to some of the boring details. I reserved a hotel block for our guests, updated our knot page with some new pictures, made a few payments for vendors, and still don't have the flowers done.

Hopefully my next post will include some of our engagement photos taken by my wonderful brother-in-law, Luke (hint, hint). For now, we'll leave you with our Save the Date mock up which we had way to much fun making.

Compliments of Lukas Horton Photography