By Julie Wright
I don’t think boys realize that girls make lists. Not just any lists: important lists. We make lists of our friends, music we like, and most importantly what qualities we expect our future husbands to have before we agree to marry them. I had a list of my own, brimming with the perfections I expected my husband to possess.

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By Ken Craig
Never, in all my youth, could I conjure up the image of the moment I would purchase an engagement ring. In my mind, the buying of the ring was The Final Step. And The Final Step to
The Final Commitment would be intimidating to most, would it not?

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By Stephanie McMillan
Grammy and G.G., as my great-grandparents were affectionately known, married in the year 1929 and homesteaded a sheep ranch in the wilds of Montana. Their ranch on Big Sheep Creek was miles away from any other civilization. It was this picturesque but lonely mountain that served as welcome for my great-grandmother, Afton, a new young bride. She was eighteen when she married Lewis, a handsome young man who had stolen her heart.

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By Katie Parker
There was something about the phrase “marriage for time and all eternity” that sounded incredibly blissful to me when I was a starry-eyed teenager. Surely when the magical day of my temple marriage arrived, my husband and I would be whisked into a peaceful future in our little cottage in the clouds. What else could marriage for time and all eternity involve?

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By Lu Ann Staheli
Think the word bride. What image comes to mind? A girl, probably mid-twenties, thin body, a perfect complexion, and unlimited resources to give her the wedding she’s dreamed about her entire—short—life.

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