This weekend, my fiance and I are going to marriage prep.

For anybody who doesn’t know, marriage preparation is essentially a pre-marital counselling session, which is structured in the format of a course, and is required to be married by many christian denominations. Our venue is Anglican so requires us to do this prior to approving our marriage in the venue.

This is part of the wedding planning process for us.

Last weekend my friends and I made the invitations, and worked on addressing the envelopes. We found some fun ideas on Pinterest for decorations and starting scouting photographers.

I think we’ve got a pretty good handle on the wedding now, but we anticipate being in full fledged wedding planning mode for awhile!

Even though I’ve been busy with that, I always make time for reading on my favorite blogs. Here are some of my favorite posts:

Jessica posts about personal finance books, which I’ve been reading a lot of lately.

I really enjoyed the post by Brick by Brick Investing about how a single person should live if they want to be rich. I’m not single, so I can’t really weigh in, but I think it’s a worthwhile read.

Poor Student posts about how it’s easier to be frugal when you’re a student, which I see as completely true. When I was in college I spent very little money. Now, I feel that I spend a ton!

Pauline asks discusses whether it’s worth it to re-locate for a career.

At Save Spend Splurge, there is discussion about index funds and which index fund to invest money in. The author prefers Questrade for her investments, which is great because I recently opened my account with Questrade.

The blogger over at Green Money Stream paid off $20K worth of debt in a year. Pretty impressive!

Over at Clever Dude, Brock tells us how afternoon grocery shopping can be a budget buster, because of what he calls the “reshop”.

Thanks everyone for the great reads this week!