We recently had our first pre-marital counseling session. We will be getting married in my home church, a nondenominational church, in my home town approximately 6 hours from where we currently live. Because of the distance we are doing this over Skype. It is a larger church so they have a Pastor of Marriage and Family Relations in charge of pre-marital counseling and once couples complete the counseling, he then gives the green light to the head pastor (a really cool guy and friend of my parents) to go ahead and marry them.
Our first session was HORRIBLE! He started asking a little bit about each of us, how we met, when we knew we wanted to get married, and why we wanted to get married in the church. Our response to the latter was that we wanted our wedding to be a reflection of our values and beliefs and our faith is a very important part of who we are both individually and as a couple, and we want a Christian ceremony that would reflect that.
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