„Marriage is like two pieces of paper glued together: they fit, they got used to each other so perfectly, and if you need to separate them, it takes a lot of pain and trouble.”
As we mentioned earlier, we have attended the „Marriage Course” as a criterion for getting married in the Reformed Church that we chose (it's a branch of the Christian Protestant Church). It was kind of a preparation before the wedding, the aim of the course was to establish patterns that will keep marriages alive for a lifetime.
The first part of the course was a week-end in the countryside of Hungary (at lake Velence), at a romantic hostel where we could sleep in our own room, in a double bed (Ryan was shocked to see that the Reformed Church in Hungary allows that before the wedding). :)
The agenda of the week-end was about topics around the marriage, such as:
The art of communication in the relationship, dealing with conflicts, dealing with the in-laws, etc.... and......believe or not....sex was also discussed as a topic of the marriage. :)
The minister gave a presentation about each topic, and after each of them, there were questions that we had to discuss between ourselves (just the two of us).
The second part of the Marriage Course was about a series of Monday-night discussions, around a dinner table, mainly about religeous topics.
And now that we are finished, I can truly say that it was awesome! We really loved it, we learnt a lot, and we hope that this experience will help us build a strong foundation for our future married life.
And even though in the beginning we thought that it might be difficult for Ryan to be amongst so many Hungarians, and not to understand much from the conversations, but guess what happened! There was another international couple, the girl being Hungarian, and the guy being exactly from New Zealand! In addition, they are having their wedding exactly in the same day as us: the 9th August!!!!! Such a coincidence! So cool!!!!! :)
Some of the pictures:
Dinner time
At the presentations
And if you wanna see more photos, click here!
