The Secret of a Happy Marriage Remains a Secret.

Are You Ready For Marriage?

Questions you should ponder:

• Is this person right for me?
• Am I right for this person?

Qualities that make good partners:

1. Capacity for love
2. Ability to understand the feelings of others.
3. Responsible
4. Secure
5. Economically stable
6. Similarity in religious faith
7. Similarity in family background
8. Similarity in lifestyle and outlook of life

Why Do You Want To Marry?

A question that everybody needs to answer. It is important that you enter marriage with realistic expectations.

• Some reasons why people marry:

- To enjoy lifelong companionship and mutual support

- To have a sense of fulfilment in being married

- To meet sexual & physical needs

- To have children

• Wrong reasons to marry:

- To escape family problems, You may find that family problems are not resolved by marriage.

- To escape feelings of loneliness or insecurity, You may be disappointed as both these feelings may also be experienced in marriage.

- Being pressured into marrying by friends or family, This is not a good enough reason for getting married.

- Fear of being ‘left on the shelf’, This is not a sufficient reason for marriage.

- Premarital pregnancy ,You need to deal with the pregnancy separate from marriage.

Wedding Preparation

Plan your wedding

What kind of wedding do you want to have?

Factors to consider & questions to ponder:

1. What are your expectations & desires?

- What do you imagine your wedding to be?

- How would you like to look on your wedding day?

- Where do you want to have your wedding?

- What do you want to do on your wedding day?

2. What are your parents’ wishes?
- What are your parents’ ideas of a wedding?
3. Are there any traditional or religious requirements?
- What are some traditions that you need to follow?
4. What is your budget?

- How much money do you want to spend?

- Will your parents be helping?

- Will the wedding expenses involve the both of you?

« Le mariage d’une nuit nécessite une année de préparation ».

Au Maroc, le temps où le mariage ne nécessitait que la présence de douze personnes en tant que témoins est révolu. Aujourd’hui, c’est une véritable industrie qui s’est mise en place et qui bat son plein pendant l’été. Avant d’arriver au jour J, les préparatifs durent en moyenne trois à quatre mois, si ce n’est une année. Un proverbe marocain dit : « Le mariage d’une nuit nécessite une année de préparation ».

Love or Money?

With the average cost of a traditional wedding approaching 140,000 Dhs, a lack of money rather than love may be the reason so many young couples are reluctant to getting married.

Financial barriers to marriage are a significant issue for many young, working- and middle-class couples, as well as for the poor and near-poor.

Despite the retreat from marriage, it remains a highly valued status.

While scores of studies clearly show that those who are economically well-off are more likely to marry and to stay married; new findings suggest that low-income couples are not the only ones who put off tying the knot because they're in a financial pinch.

The researchers also found that nearly one-fourth of men and women believed that the decision to marry hinged on the male partner's ability to fulfill the breadwinner role.

The findings lend support to the view that high expectations for marriage are part of what lies behind the retreat from marriage, "We expect so much from marriage that we avoid it until it is clear that our expectations will be met,"

The Love vs. Money Test

http://www.queendom.com/tests/minitests/fx/love_money.html