Each newly married couple is matched with an 'adoptive' couple, with whom they meet three times during the year at three-monthly intervals.  The fourth meeting for the year brings everyone together for the final talk and closing celebration. 

Each year there's a change of adoptive couples; so over the first five years of marriage you discuss twenty different topics and get an insight into five different marriages.  The topics were selected from the responses of 3,000 newly marrieds on what they most wanted to discuss.

The year begins in February with a Dinner - a 'fun' night when everyone meets, mixes, wines and dines.  Towards the end of the evening, newly marrieds and adoptive couples are matched;  they then get together over coffee to set the date for their first meeting.