Preparing to officiate at a wedding ceremony this evening. Selecting my words, polishing my shoes, etc.. My mind keeps circulating back to one thought...
I've officiated at weddings in big church buildings in Kansas City and St. Louis, and at other cities like Dallas, in small church buildings in small towns and other types of buildings in rural areas, beside lakes and ponds or on the water, at golf courses, and in the woods.
But my favorite setting is in the home. The home of the parents or the grandparents, or the home in which the couple to be married will reside. It is simple, straight forward, warm, intimate, and serious.
Here's my one thought... it is not the amount of money spent on a wedding ceremony, or the pomp and circumstance put on to impress, that makes a marriage. It is the motivation, devotion, and love of two people committed to each other and determined to navigate through live life together that makes a successful marriage.
Years ago, folks just went to the preacher's house with a couple friends as witnesses to stand up with them, and they stayed together 50 or more years.
Not for all I know, but for some today, it is all about the party surrounding the wedding ceremony. Sadly, those couples don't always stay together for long.
So it is with great joy, that this evening I will approach the home of friends, whom I married in this same home, as the setting for the wedding of their children. August, 2017
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