An invitation to explore a distinctive marriage preparation experience alongside your existing venue, planning, and preferred-vendor offerings.
Before We Say I Do is a secular educational experience that helps adult couples consider everyday patterns, shared expectations, and relationship skills.
It is not wedding-planner training, couples therapy, faith-based counseling, or a test of whether a couple should marry.
A venue's expertise and preferred professionals remain central to tours, hospitality, vendor introductions, and wedding logistics. Earthly Expression provides the educational curriculum and facilitator.
One day from 9:00 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. is a proposed framework, not a booked event or confirmation that every component will be offered.
Focused education on expectations and communication; conflict, consent, and boundaries; and money, household life, parenting intentions, and the future. Participant materials and at-home practice are included.
Possible tour, refreshments, space for learning and breaks, and a separately scheduled catered lunch—all subject to the venue's approval, capacity, and agreed costs.
Optional introductions to planners and preferred vendors, followed by venue- or planner-led wedding-detail conversations. Purchases from wedding vendors would be separate.
Three distinct 60-minute workshops are woven between breaks and optional venue-led components. Catered lunch stays separate from vendor time. The schedule is flexible to suit quieter venue dates and available professionals.
There is no two-day alternative proposed here. We are exploring a single-day pilot that respects a venue's existing operations.
Pricing and inclusions: Any combined guest package, venue/food costs, staffing needs, and responsibility for payments would be discussed privately and agreed before public enrollment. No guest price is live, and no complete full-day venue quote is assumed.
We would work through these decisions together before either organization announces an event, collects payment, or confirms vendors.
A quieter date, suitable rooms for private writing and group instruction, realistic attendance, accessibility, breaks, and a backup option.
Space, catering, refreshments, staffing, tour, vendor participation, payment handling, cancellation rules, and the actual cost of each component.
Who manages guest inquiries, confirms vendors, reviews participant fit, provides materials, promotes the event, and handles questions before and after.
Dr. Nicki Pascetti, PhD, LCSW holds a Doctorate in Counseling Psychology and has 28 years of clinical experience. She developed the original educational content and leads the marriage preparation instruction.
Venues, planners, caterers, photographers, and other professionals continue to control their own services and advice. The program is inclusive, fully secular, and does not promise a relationship outcome.
No. Planning services address weddings. The Earthly Expression workshop teaches relationship skills, and the proposed day intentionally leaves tour, vendor, and wedding-detail time with those professionals.
That is the preferred starting point. A pilot would be scheduled only after the venue confirms an available date, staff needs, and operational fit.
We can discuss the program concept, sample schedule, learning areas, operating needs, and the proposed package structure. Proprietary teaching materials and detailed exercise scripts are not public handouts or licensed to venue partners.
Start with a brief, general conversation about dates, scope, guest experience, and costs. No obligation or event is created by an inquiry.
