This year, Evans will marry 55 Bay Area couples who are like her outside of, or between, religious traditions. I know of five couples who aren t together. Maybe there are more. But the couples splitting up aren t the ones calling me you know, Thanks, Ann, great ceremony, it lasted about a minute and a half. I ve only done women s unions, not men s.
Men tend to be really fabulous about the details of the function the caterer, the florist.
I can meet with them for two years before the ceremony. The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce suggests children of divorce feel its effects years after the fact, especially when they re about to get married. I m marrying people today who are very much the products of divorce. For starters, I try to help them shape a day in which they don t have to referee their parents bad relationship. One of the first things I say to couples is, Whether or not you re married 30 years from now, I expect you to sit at your children s wedding and know why you yourself got married.