Wedding Update #33D - Fourth, and last, session of Pre-Cana
I’m happy and sad at the same time that our sessions of Pre-Cana are over! We started the evening quickly, with a reading of “the wedding prayer” instead of reciting one together. We discussed this prayer (which is really more of a poem - I mean, it was written by John Shea after all) and it’s meanings - that there are times when things will be hard, when things will be good or bad, when there is happiness or sadness - but marriage is there for a lifetime of love and communication. We went back to finances a little with a fun worksheet on specific items and how much it was important to you - “Couldn’t live without,” “Somewhat important,” “If I won the lottery,” or “Not interested.” I was really happy to see basically Kris and I had the same answers. We also had the same answers for the worksheet we did next on time management - where you divide 168 hours in a week up into different activities. I thought it was great that we had the exact same number of hours devoted to sleeping! 
We also both had “extra time” - not really, but we both are able to multi-task so we don’t really feel like we don’t have enough time. An important point that was brought up was how much that will change when children come into the picture - definitely interesting to think about. We then covered goal-setting, and how those goals affect you individually, as a couple, help your career, or any combination thereof. We also had to rank them by level of importance, and I think this was a highly valuable exercise because it is something we will come back to time and time again. Our final topic of the evening was “Echoes of Love” which Kris and I had actually done beforehand because we thought it was homework - oops. Anyway, that was really cool because we got to talk about how we met and how we felt then, how our love has grown and affected others, and how we hope to affect others or be affected by others in the future. We ended the evening with a celebration with cake and presents - and then we were presented with our certificates of completion of the course. It was a bittersweet moment for me - we’d grown to know these very kind other couples over the past month or so, and now we probably won’t ever see them again. And yet we will remember them whenever we go back to talk about all the topics we’ve covered in this course. It was really good to get those things out in the air and discussed before getting married, and I HIGHLY recommend some type of course like this for anyone I know that’s engaged or about to get married.
