GREAT SEXPECTATIONS: I’m engaged to a pastor and we’re pregnant. Should we bring the wedding forward?

In our fortnightly column ‘Great Sexpectations’ we answer your questions on sex, faith and intimacy. Drop us an email on womanalive@premier.org.uk and ask us anything. Here, Marcia Dixon helps a pregnant reader who wants to know if she should get married before the baby is born.

Dear Woman Alive

I’ve been engaged to my childhood sweetheart for about five years, and we plan on getting married in the summer next year. The issue is, we just found out that I’m pregnant and he’s worried about how that will look with him being a pastor in our church. It obviously wasn’t planned but we do want children, so we are really happy about it, it’s just the circumstances. I don’t mind continuing as planned but he thinks it might cause trouble at church. Should we bring our wedding forward so that I’m married by the time the baby is born? It just seems old fashioned to try and hide it when we are both fine with the decision to sleep together but I don’t really know what to do!