By HILLARY GUBLER
hillary@du2.byu.edu
Getting married during the middle of the semester can pose some problems, such as selling contracts and missing classes.
Professor of LDS Marriage and Family classes, Guy Dorius, said when couples get married during the middle of a semester it rushes things a little bit and presents some problems.
'I don't think we should plan our life around our weddings, he said. 'When they want to get married during the middle, they expect us to excuse them from classwork,' he said.
Dorius said mid-semester marriages tend to take their attention away from their school work.
Emily Butler, a junior from Sandy majoring in English, got married February 1998 and has different opinion.
She said she was finding it difficult to study and her grades were dropping while she was engaged.
'There was really no reason to wait,' Butler said. 'We didn't want anything real fancy.'
Many couples are worried about missing classes, but Butler said in some ways getting married made it easier.
'If you have to miss anything, it is easier to miss the middle than the end, say at finals,' Butler said. 'When we did get married we were able to focus on our grades.'
Butler said she was lucky how things worked out with moving from single to married life.
'There was a waiting list at our complex and we found an apartment that had an immediate opening,' Butler said.
However, Kiri Price, a senior from Draper majoring in English is having some troubles with her upcomming March wedding.
'Trying to find couple's housing in the middle of the semester is torture,' Price said. 'No one around here rents month to month and people don't give up their apartments until June.'
Price is also finding it hard to study because there are so many plans to make and things to do.
'There are a lot of things to talk about and work through and you feel like you need to spend time together. I hardly sleep anymore trying to juggle school, work, wedding stuff and a fiance.'
Price and sophomore Casey Reeves chose to get married in March because they had to work around Reeves' Young Ambassador schedule.
'I was either get married in the middle or have an eight-month engagement,' Price said.