{"id":16375,"date":"2026-06-11T12:37:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T12:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stmaryshorsham.org.uk\/?page_id=16375"},"modified":"2026-06-11T13:44:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T13:44:04","slug":"marriage-preparation-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.stmaryshorsham.org.uk\/index.php\/help-and-support\/getting-married\/marriage-preparation-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Marriage Preparation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marriage Preparation<\/p>\n<p>We encourage all couples who are thinking about getting married, or who have booked a wedding with us, to sign up for the online marriage preparation course provided by an organisation called Care for the Family.<\/p>\n<p>The Course offers four sessions, exploring how couples can build a lasting relationship. The themes that are covered are:<\/p>\n<p>Cherish &#8211; The forgotten vow and how to keep your love alive.<\/p>\n<p>Connect &#8211; Understanding each other and the art of communication.<\/p>\n<p>Collaborate &#8211; Dealing with pressure points and handling conflict well.<\/p>\n<p>Commit &#8211; Love is a choice when the going gets tough.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class='avia-iframe-wrap'>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"NsnwYse7Dz\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.careforthefamily.org.uk\/support-for-you\/family-life\/couple-support\/\">Couple support<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cCouple support\u201d \u2014 Care for the Family\" src=\"https:\/\/www.careforthefamily.org.uk\/support-for-you\/family-life\/couple-support\/embed\/#?secret=it6zXLHlXx#?secret=NsnwYse7Dz\" data-secret=\"NsnwYse7Dz\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marriage Preparation We encourage all couples who are thinking about getting married, or who have booked a wedding with us, to sign up for the online marriage preparation course provided by an organisation called Care for the Family. The Course offers four sessions, exploring how couples can build a lasting relationship. The themes that are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":2607,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16375","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stmaryshorsham.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stmaryshorsham.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stmaryshorsham.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stmaryshorsham.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stmaryshorsham.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16375"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.stmaryshorsham.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16399,"href":"https:\/\/www.stmaryshorsham.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16375\/revisions\/16399"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stmaryshorsham.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stmaryshorsham.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}