Couple’s Date Nights are intended as an “entry level” Regnum Christi event, featuring local speakers, who are usually speaker couples and often known to the attendees. Staying local with the speakers helps with relatability, and sustainability, because it keeps costs down. The goals of each event are to have the couples that attend receive church-aligned formation on marriage and the family. Another goal is to introduce them to Regnum Christi, with somebody delivering an “elevator” speech, explaining our spiritual family and apostolic body. The attendees also always get to meet local Legionaries and Consecrated Women (including our own Jill Preisack, who has gone to almost all of them, and we so appreciate her). This highlights their celibate vocation and helps everyone recognize the relationship of mutual enrichment between their vocation and that of the married couples. The good food & beer, and the venue being a local brewery, helps to entice some reluctant husbands. In our case, the brewery happens to be in our family, but any local craft brewery would probably be happy to host a gathering of 25 to 40 couples hungry and thirsty not just for sound teaching but also for food and beverage.