Engaged Encounter

[PeppyGPhiB]

Some of you may have heard of Engaged Encounter, a premarital counseling retreat hosted on many weekends of the year throughout the country by local Catholic Archdiocese. My fiance and I went to our local one this past weekend and LOVED IT!

Neither of us is Catholic (you don't have to be of any organized religion), but that didn't matter. It was a great opportunity to get away for the weekend and focus on us, and talk about specific things that not even we had thought about after more than four years of dating. It was emotionally draining, but we left feeling so loved and excited for our wedding in three months!

Just wanted to let you guys know about it since I know we have a few other engaged GCers on here, or in case any of you have friends who want/need to do premarital counseling. We went to it because our church required PMC to get married, but we probably would've done some anyway. And now after experiencing it, I definitely think PMC is something that EVERY couple should do. For those who want to do it all in one weekend, I can't recommend Engaged Encounter enough.