Have Your Wedding Cake and Eat It Too!: You Can Be Both Happy and Married

by O'Connor, Joey

• ISBN13: 9780849937996
• ISBN10: 084993799X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-06-01
• Publisher: Harpercollins Christian Pub

Summary

Dearly beloved, getting married is not a piece of cake. Put away the thank-you cards and wedding album and join Joey O'Connor as he pokes fun at the craziness nearlyweds" endure to get married and the wild new discoveries "newlyweds" make in the first years of marriage. Laugh and learn as O'Connor shares humorous stories and helpful insights about the ups and downs of married life.Have Your Wedding Cake and Eat It Too!offers principles and practical suggestions to help your relationship move from "I do" to "till death do us part." And each chapter includes a discussion guide to help you and your spouse develop a together-forever kind of love. Whether you're "nearlyweds" counting down the days to cutting your cake or "newlyweds" who put the cake in the freezer a year or two ago, Have Your Wedding Cake and Eat It Too! helps you grow together in the most intimate, loving, and fulfilling relationship on earth.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
Hurry Up; We're Going to Miss the Wedding!	1	(11)
Who Says You Can't Have Your Wedding Cake and Eat It Too?	12	(12)
Dressed for Marriage Success	24	(11)
Get Extremely Married	35	(10)
Three Weddings and a Funeral	45	(10)
Guys Are Prodigious Wedding Planners	55	(11)
There Seems to Be a Slight Communication Problem	66	(9)
The Money Dance Is Not the Chicken Dance	75	(11)
Forces of Nature	86	(11)
Guys Want Lingerie, Not Lanz!	97	(9)
Opposite Families Do Attract	106	(11)
There's Somebody in My Bed	117	(11)
Marriage-Bed Rules	128	(9)
What to Do with Middle-of-the-Bed Fred	137	(9)
Your Mother-in-Law's Guide to Marriage	146	(10)
Your Bride Has Arachnophobia	156	(11)
You Cannot Say Whatever You'd Like to Say	167	(10)
You Know It, and You Just Can't Deny It	177	(10)
This Is Not What I Had in Mind	187	(10)
The Big Move	197	(9)
Have Your Cake and Eat It Too! A Primer	206	(3)
About the Author	209