Marriage Week Awaits Couples with Many Interesting Programs

Marriage Week will be celebrated for the eighteenth time in Hungary with the broad cooperation of Christian churches and civil organizations, the organizers of the series of events from February 9 to 16 told MTI on Wednesday. This year, there will be almost 200 programs in more than 60 towns and villages in the country and beyond the borders as well.

The focus of the national series of events is now on communication between spouses: how to develop honest and intimate communication so that differences, conflicts and misunderstandings can be resolved and marriage can be a developing and mutually satisfying relationship. This year’s motto is “Talk for your marriage!”.

Through the national Marriage Week movement, the organizers want to encourage couples to take an active role in renewing their relationships and deepening communication. This year, they have also created a relationship-building diary called “Kapocs” (“Link”), where people can get expert advice and discussion questions on twenty-one topics.

The Marriage Week movement, which originated in the UK and is now present in more than 20 countries, aims to raise awareness of the values of marriage, family and relationships and how to care for them, helping those preparing for marriage and those facing relationship problems.

In connection with the Marriage Week, the Hungarian National Museum is organizing a number of programs and has launched a call for applications. The Museum, with its Hungarian Bride project launched in 2020, is once again drawing attention to weddings, the choice of couple, family stories that are being forgotten, and the preservation of the values and memories of the past.

On the occasion of this year’s Marriage Week, the Hungarian National Museum’s Historical Photographic Collection will add 500 wedding photos to its valuable collection, including images of Hungary’s prominent aristocratic families.

The institution is also launching a call for proposals to add to the largest online wedding collection in the country, entitled The Hungarian Bride is alive, well and will live! They are looking for treasured photographs of Hungarian families to pass on their stories to posterity. A pop-up exhibition is also planned at the museum, based on a selection of images uploaded by February 28 by a professional jury. Moreover, there will be a conversation with relationship counsellor Erika Nagy, and Ildikó Simonovics, fashion historian and curator of the Hungarian Bride exhibition.

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