Why is Christian premarital counseling so important?
"The truth is, most engaged couples prepare more for their wedding than they do for their marriage. The $50-billion-a-year wedding industry can testify to that fact. According to experts, the average two-hundred guest wedding today costs twenty-two thousand dollars.* More than one million bridal magazines are sold each month, focusing mainly on ceremonies, honeymoons, and home furnishings, but not on marriage itself. It seems silly to do and invest so much into the wedding and yet so little to prepare for marriage."
- Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott, Saving Your Marriage Before it Starts
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* The findings noted above from Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott are based on telephone interviews with 1,037 adults, age eighteen and above. The survey was conducted between September 24 and October 9, 1988. Error attributable to sampling and other random effects could be plus or minus four percentage points.