Advice for Brides
Recent brides have told me that they wish someone had shared a few suggestions with them. For this reason, I want to include the following hints:
• Make all your wedding preparations far enough in advance so that there are no last-minute details for which you are responsible.
• Both the bride and groom should be rested. This means no girl talk until the wee hours of the morning of the wedding and no bachelor party the night before.
• Plan a short trip for the first night.
• Be certain to pack a tube of artificial lubricant.
• Have a small towel handy to absorb the secretions.
• Decide beforehand what you both expect on the wedding night. Will you slowly and lovingly undress each other, or will you (the bride) come floating into the bedroom in your gorgeous white negligee and sweep him off his feet? The barrier of seeing each other naked is best broken at some time during your first night together.
• Take a shower together at least once on your honeymoon trip.
• Take along a candle for a romantic atmosphere.
• Relax and anticipate the cherishing and possessing of each other.
I have a choice Father’s Day card from Hallmark that goes to my husband every year because the message is so perfect. It says:
To my husband, who still gives me
protection
attention
security
grocery money
and …
GOOSE BUMPS!
And he does! I want you to discover that the principles in this chapter work when they are put into practice and that as you learn to please your husband and to be pleased by him, you’ll have all the goose bumps you could want. It begins with you and your attitude.
Posted in Attitudes and Communication
To Ed Wheat Sr. and Gladys Gibson Wheat, whose commitment, devotion, warmth, generosity, and integrity stood for fifty years as a beautiful picture of genuine agape love.