The Most Wonderful Time of the Year | Holiday Roundup

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With the start of the holiday season less than a week away, we at Spoken Bride want to help you fully and joyfully enter into this meaningful time of year. 

Here are our favorite pieces from the archives on liturgical living, Christmas weddings, creating traditions with your spouse, and more. 

Liturgical Living + Advent

Cooking Through the Liturgical Year | Liturgical Living ideas | Creating Advent traditions in your marriage and family | Creating Holiday Traditions as a Couple| Engagement as a “Little Advent” |A reflection on waiting and anticipation, and their surprising fruits during engagement | Waiting in Joyful Hope | Meditations on Our Lady’s Immaculate Conception, celebrated December 8 | Thoughts on embracing seasons of preparation. 

Relationship Health During the Holiday Season

5 Tips for balancing family, social events, and time as a couple during the holidays | How to Decide Whose Family to Visit for the Holidays| Distinctively Catholic ideas for celebrating the Christmas season with your beloved | How to avoid fights about money | Spiritual Tuneups for Couples | The Habit of Affirmation | How to Apologize

Hosting and Gift-Giving

5 Creative gift ideas for newlyweds | 4 Winter Hospitality Ideas | Editors Share their Strategies for Giving Gifts to their Spouses | Gifts, Prints, and Digital Downloads from the Spoken Bride Shop | Prayer Books for Brides | Stewardship in Marriage

Holiday Weddings

Maria and Patrick’s Rustic Christmastide Georgia Wedding | Sally Ann and Alex’s Wintery Texas Garden Wedding | Mary-Kate and Faris’ Emerald Christmastide Manor Wedding | Spoken Bride Features Editor Mariah Maza shares the story of her Christmas Octave wedding and tips for planning your own | Claire and Andrew’s blue and silver wedding in a Tennessee cathedral, celebrated on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception | Bridget and KC’s Christmas Octave wedding, filled with symbolism and intention and inspired by Pier Giorgio Frassati | Natasha and Tim’s Minnesota New Year’s wedding, centered on family and community--down to the bride’s vintage gown | Emily and Daniël’s Praise and Worship-filled Christmas season wedding | Christina and Kristian’s Austin wedding, with holiday colors and Christmas hymns | Genevieve and Dalton’s festive celebration at Rock ‘N Bowl | Caroline and Matt’s elegant cathedral wedding, rich with family heritage | Kaitlyn and John’s New Year’s wedding in blue, gold, and white | Becca and Phil’s Christmas picnic wedding