Marriage Preparation

Every couple to be married in the Diocese of Pittsburgh is required to participate in a diocesan-approved marriage preparation program which should be taken at least six months prior to your wedding.  Pre-marriage programs are offered in three models: a parish-sponsored program (including the Renew the 'I Do' Marriage Preparation program), the Engaged Encounter weekend retreat, or online formation through Catholic Marriage Prep.com, the only approved online pre-marriage program for the Diocese of Pittsburgh.  See below for information, dates and availability for each.

Click here: SCHEDULE OF PARISH PROGRAMS

Engaged couples are invited to participate in  A Joy-Filled Marriage, a lively, insightful, and resourceful experience with your future spouse.  You will gain the wisdom, receive the tools, and ignite the passion to help form a thriving marriage!   Topics include:

• What are you saying "I do" to?
• Communication
• Love style
• Resolving conflict
• Building happiness

Start the journey to a joy-filled marriage today!

Click here: SCHEDULE FOR RENEW-THE-I-DO MARRIAGE PREP

Engaged Encounter is a weekend retreat away that assists couples in dialogueing honestly and intensively about their prospective lives together-- their strengths and weaknesses, desires, ambitions, goals, attitudes about money, sex, children, family, church and society--in a face to face way.  Engaged Encounter is an invitation to go deeper in communication, vital for the growth of relationships and healthy marriages.

TO VOLUNTEER to help Engaged Encounter, contact Rick & Carol Behring at 724-316-2820 or rcbehring@zoominternet.net

If your pastor has approved you for online marriage preparation, please click on the Catholic Marriage Prep logo below to register.

Clergy and marriage ministers may click here to access guidelines for the content of
pre-marriage programs facilitated in the Diocese of Pittsburgh.