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The way you communicate during wedding planning can predict future conflict.

Catch minor issues before they grow into unsolvable conflicts.

Practicing appreciation and vulnerability strengthens future communication.

Planning your wedding requires communication, negotiation, decision-making, prioritizing, and budgeting, all of which will come up time and again throughout your marriage. These tasks can either connect or divide you as a couple, depending on how you manage them. The inspiration for this blog stems from my work as a wedding coordinator and couples therapist. As a wedding coordinator, I worked with couples at their happiest. As a couples therapist, I see people at their worst and sometimes most desperate. Almost every couple I see now was once that happy couple on their wedding day.

Can you see the trouble coming?

There are certainly precursors of concerning problems. It’s not always a large event that destroys relationship satisfaction. In fact, it's usually something small and more insidious, such as poor communication, repeated small misunderstandings, or failure to repair minor ruptures. The smaller things are more difficult to recognize in the moment unless you know what you're looking for. Planning your wedding provides multiple opportunities to set healthy precedents. Take it as an opportunity to identify and change small........

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