The First Dance
This project is all about the complexities of families coming together around a wedding. For therapists, think family systems meets wedding planning.
For regular folks either planning a wedding (you, or your adult child) it doesn’t take long to realize the forcefields in our culture suggest a strong “me first” attitude in what is ultimately a two family coming together event that culminates in a lifelong, ongoing set of relationships.
The book below gets you deep into the couple and family principles we suggest using to stem the potential for high interpersonal conflict. All proceeds of the book are returned to this foundation.
Take Back Your Wedding
Managing the people stress of Wedding Planning
Why do professional wedding planners, engaged couples, parents, clergy, and therapists rave about this book? Take Back Your Wedding combines wisdom from the world of family therapy with a realistic picture of how couples and families behave under the stress of planning a wedding. Weddings bring out the best and worst in all of us because they combine romance, money, loyalties, jealousies, new in-law relations, and endless practical decisions-all played out in front of your whole community of family and friends! No one get through this without times of frustration, confusion, and sometimes anger. This book is an essential guide to handing the stress, avoiding the common pitfalls, having a great wedding, and launching a successful marriage. All book profits return to the foundation. Purchase here.
