Designed to Love
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A weekend away for your marriage

We're Don and Tracey Peterson. We host married couples for a weekend at a hotel, with your meals and a candlelit dinner included.

$100 per couple, hotel and meals included. Example dates for this prototype.

Start with what's going right

The weekend is positive and encouraging. Before you arrive, we ask you to look back at something good from your year.

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Your wedding photo, framed for a candlelit dinner

Send it to us after you register. Don frames it in time for the dinner, and it sits on your table that evening.

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Your room and meals are included

The hotel and your meals are part of the $100. Pack a bag and come.

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A video under two minutes long

Before the weekend, record a short video about something good from the past year and send it to us.

How it works

Register for a weekend
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    Pick your weekend

    Choose a date and pay $100 to hold your place.

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    Get ready at home

    A short checklist: your assessment, your wedding photo, a short video and the conference manual.

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    Come away

    Your hotel and meals are taken care of. We'll see you there.

If one of you isn't sure yet

Read these together. Where a detail is still being arranged, we say so.

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Who can come?

Married couples. One registration covers you both.

What does the $100 cover?

Your hotel and meals for the weekend, including the candlelit dinner, and a copy of the conference manual. It's one fee per couple.

What happens during the weekend?

We host it together, and one evening is a candlelit dinner with your wedding photo, framed by Don. Full schedule to come.

What do we do before we come?

Four things: take a marriage assessment, send us your wedding photo, send a video of under two minutes about something good from the past year, and get your conference manual. After you register, a checklist on this site takes you through each one.

Who sees our assessment?

It comes from an outside provider, and we see your results.

When and where is it?

The next weekends are listed when you register. Dates and venue to come.

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Don and Tracey Peterson

Who's hosting

We run A Weekend to Love together. Before you come, we read your assessment, and Don frames your wedding photo for the dinner himself.

Don also wrote A Parent Guide, which you'll find below.

Hold your place

$100 per couple

  • Your hotel for the weekend
  • Every meal, including the candlelit dinner
  • Your wedding photo, framed by Don
  • Your copy of the conference manual

Choose your weekend

Example dates for this prototype. Real dates and venue to come.

Cover of A Parent Guide: Helping Your Children Raise You! by Don Peterson

A Parent Guide: Helping Your Children Raise You!

My Stories, by Don Peterson

Questions to ask yourself and principles to dwell on, each told through real-life stories, about how raising your children can draw you closer to God.

Find the book on Amazon