Wedding Planning Hacks: Episode 891
The Boundless Show
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 772 Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Plan your wedding like a boss, plus Ellen Dykas on navigating lifelong singleness, and how to see God at work in a culture of negativity.
Featured musical artist: Darlene Zschech
Roundtable: How to Plan a Wedding
Weddings are big business, and the pressure to have a “perfect” day is real. To make it all happen, many couples invest thousands of dollars and months of preparation. Is the effort worth it? According to experts, what deserves your time and money, and what doesn’t? What are some things to have in mind as you sort out the details? What parts of the planning should the groom-to-be have a say in or take over altogether? How can you make the day meaningful and God-honoring? Our panel of two professional wedding planners plus one engaged (and overwhelmed) guy shares first-hand experience in making your day memorable and manageable on all fronts.
Ready to Wed: 12 Ways to Start a Marriage You’ll Love
Culture: Fruitful Singleness
Ellen Dykas has been in ministry most of her life, first in international missions and now in leadership for an organization devoted to sexual wholeness. Oh, and she’s in her late 50s and single. She details her journey in singleness, including the pressure to be married, how she finds purpose every day, what’s tough and what’s great about being single, what it’s like to be a leader alongside men in ministry — and much more. Next week she’ll be back to talk about sexuality and the church!
Inbox: Fighting Negativity
When you’re surrounded by negativity and darkness in today’s world, where can you look to see God at work? Counselor Jerry Jones weighs in.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Boundless Show. |
| 0:12.0 | All right, folks, here we are for this week's episode of The Boundless Show. |
| 0:15.4 | This is Lisa Anderson here with you. |
| 0:17.7 | And sorry about my voice, but I've just been ill for like 12 years, it seems. No, |
| 0:23.0 | it's just the start of this year. It's ridiculous. So that's okay. I'm feeling okay. And I've got |
| 0:27.9 | fun people joining me for this week's show. So first up later on for our inbox, we want to know |
| 0:33.9 | how can you see ways that God is working in your life when it feels like |
| 0:38.1 | negativity surrounds you everywhere. |
| 0:40.8 | So one of our counselors is going to weigh in on that. |
| 0:43.2 | And then for our culture segment, Ellen Dykes serves at Harvest USA, a ministry really that |
| 0:50.0 | is dedicated to infusing relationships with a view of biblical sexuality. And she is actually going to tell |
| 0:59.1 | part of her story of being a lifelong single and what that has been like. And hopefully that |
| 1:04.0 | will be encouraging for you. Next week, actually, she's going to talk about singleness and sexuality |
| 1:09.4 | in the church. So another great |
| 1:11.7 | topic and sometimes one that is overlooked. All right, here we are for our roundtable, and we're |
| 1:17.4 | going to have a fun conversation because I know you might be saying it's just the end of February. |
| 1:22.0 | I'm barely getting through winter, but we're going to start talking about weddings in light of |
| 1:26.8 | wedding season. |
| 1:28.7 | Now, maybe you have to be like a grandma to think that weddings are only in June or May in June, whatever. |
| 1:34.1 | I know, people are getting married all the time now, and people are getting married on Wednesdays, y'all. |
| 1:38.9 | This is really interesting. |
| 1:40.8 | That said, generally people like to think towards spring and summer when they think of weddings. |
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