Today Nick and I attended our marriage workshop at the church we are getting married at, Long Grove Community Church. Basically you spend all day with several other couples who are either getting married as well or who are already married and learn about how to successfully lead a healthy christian married life. We gained a lot of insight on the strengths and weaknesses we tend to bring into marriage but at the same time the assets and liabilities we bring with us from our upbringings. Our instructor was very informative with tying in marriage and spirituality, he made many good points and had Nick and I on the edge of chairs. We even dug deeper as to what different upbringings we have witnessed through out time. It was quite interesting to hear every ones opinions and experiences. 
Aside from our history, the instructor taught us about the Greek way of Agape love (divine love), Eros (physical love), Philios love (mutual love) - how to choose words wisely, reflect it in our attitudes, and reflect it in our actions. I know this all doesn't seem like much, but we truly learned more than we could begin to write a small blog about. Needless to say Nick and I were the only ones that stayed afterwards to speak with the instructor about all the thoughts and curiosities we had. It was truly a fulfilling day for the two of us, we couldn't stop talking about it for quite some time.
I thought that today kind of set the tone for the pictures I posted... This is just a few pictures my grandma and I dug up of our family and their weddings through out time. Unfortunately a few of the oldest photos such as the one at the top right for example didn't have the dates printed on them, I would love to know when some of these were taken, the era... The neat thing though is they each have a Chicago photography company imprinted on their holders which I plan to do research on (Since most of you know my passion for photography). Anyway, my grandma lent them to me since she knew I was very intrigued by our families history and the photographs themself, so I am in the process of copying a large box full right now for myself of many generations through out our families history.
*Soon to be posted our wedding party, need to know locations for our BIG DAY, and some hot spots for our out of towners :) Stay tuned....
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