CONSUMMATING THE MARRIAGE

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Assuming that you are still reading, let’s get down to the nitty gritty of your first night as husband and wife and the bit that still fills some with dread - the act of consummating the marriage.

Now whilst we love the whole romance of ‘saving yourself for that special person’, we are not naive enough to think that each and every one of you reading this will be doing just that. However, there will be a few of you who have remained loyal to your views/religion and from all of us here at Weddingsday may we say how you should be rightly proud of yourselves for resisting all the temptation that 21^st Century life has placed in your way. The following paragraph is especially dedicated to you guys and gals and is well worth a read, especially if you are nervous in anyway shape or form about what’s coming up. For the rest of you hussies, go straight to the ‘Spicing it Up’ paragraph on page three and begin your reading there!

The First Time

First things first, the act of love making is perfectly natural and there is nothing obscene about it nor reason to be nervous. Now we’re not going to patronise you by telling you about the birds and the bees, there are websites out there dedicated to that kind of thing and to be honest we don’t really want to mention the words penis or vagina unless really necessary (d’oh!). What we do want to touch on is how to approach the courtship mentally to ensure that it is something that you are both looking forward to and not dreading all the way through the vows, speeches and beyond.