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Engaged & Newlywed — Marriage preparation, the wedding vow, and God’s design for your first years

Engaged & Newlywed

Marriage preparation, the wedding vow, and God’s design for your first years

The conversation nobody schedules between the venue tour and the cake tasting.

110 pages · 8.5 × 11 · coil bound

$29.99plus shipping at cost

Ordering isn’t open yet. The printed edition is at the printer and the checkout goes live once the first copies have been proofed in our own hands. We would rather tell you that than take your money for a book we haven’t held.

The same writing is available now as a printable PDF — Engaged Couples Bundle, $49.98 on Etsy →

When it opens, this book is ordered here — printed for your order and shipped to your door.

You’ve spent more hours on the reception than on what happens the Tuesday after. That’s just what a wedding does to a calendar.

Three works live in this volume. Before the Vows walks you through what’s easier to talk about now than to discover in year two: money, children, church, conflict, in-laws, the marriage bed. The Wedding Vows is about the promise itself, where the words came from, and how to write yours so they carry weight. A closing primer on God’s design lays out the shape of the life you’re about to promise each other.

Work them in order if you can. The vow chapters assume the conversations already happened.

You each get your own page. Fill yours in first — half of what these pages do, they do in the gap between the two answers.

If you’re already married and the first year has been harder than anyone warned you, none of this is too late. Plenty of couples find these conversations somewhere around the second argument about money. You can have them before that.

Your pastor should be in this with you. We wrote it to give you something to bring to him.

The physical book

8.5 × 11, coil bound so it lies flat while you write. Cream uncoated paper, chosen so a pen doesn’t smear. Printed in the United States. Scripture quoted from the NASB 1995.

Written from a decidedly Reformed Baptist and complementarian conviction — Scripture as the final authority, marriage as a covenant picturing Christ and His church. If that’s the help you’re looking for, you’re in the right shop.Our perspective

This book is reflection, not counseling, medical, or legal advice, and it does not replace your pastor, or a biblical counselor sought with your pastor.