i like how these are wintry with just a hint of spring.
that game of “would you rather” was very nice.
and i think i agree with kirk about there being too much emphasis on one day…and money spent, etc.
i read an interesting article related to that…. about how people say about the wedding “it’s my day, i can wear what i want/spend as much as i want/fulfil my dreams”…. the article talked about the trends of overspending, and of women wearing something less modest than what you would normally deign to wear in a church service and in front of all of their friends and family. interesting.
…the author basically called into question this a strange phenomena, because the point of the day (in a christian marriage) is for both to come before everybody to pledge self-sacrifice, pledge a life of partnership submitted to the community and its values.
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Well said on the wedding front, Angela, particularly the last paragraph. I am not sure about weddings occurring within an actual Sunday morning church service (as mentioned in Kirk’s article), but the point of having them in a church at all really is to bring them under the blessing and rule of God, which is mediated by the church. I think this perspective, along with the focus of self-sacrifice and covenant you mentioned, would really help in changing our current attitudes about the extravagence and extreme couple-centeredness of contemporary weddings.
Regarding cost, that is bit trickier. I really rather do think a wedding should be a celebration, a communal one centered around one’s church and family and friends, and, as such, that may require some expenditure (feasts, in the old sense did, but unlike our society’s perpetual feasting did not happen that often), but that needn’t mean that we in the church need to slavishly follow the patterns of our day, not the least being a sort of bridal oneupmans(or womans)ship.
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Well said on the wedding front, Angela, particularly the last paragraph. I am not sure about weddings occurring within an actual Sunday morning church service (as mentioned in Kirk’s article), but the point of having them in a church at all really is to bring them under the blessing and rule of God, which is mediated by the church. I think this perspective, along with the focus of self-sacrifice and covenant you mentioned, would really help in changing our current attitudes about the extravagence and extreme couple-centeredness of contemporary weddings.
Regarding cost, that is bit trickier. I really rather do think a wedding should be a celebration, a communal one centered around one’s church and family and friends, and, as such, that may require some expenditure (feasts, in the old sense did, but unlike our society’s perpetual feasting did not happen that often), but that needn’t mean that we in the church need to slavishly follow the patterns of our day, not the least being a sort of bridal oneupmans(or womans)ship.
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What hauntingly beautiful photos. I’m particularly drawn to #4 and #10.
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i like how these are wintry with just a hint of spring.
that game of “would you rather” was very nice.
and i think i agree with kirk about there being too much emphasis on one day…and money spent, etc.
i read an interesting article related to that…. about how people say about the wedding “it’s my day, i can wear what i want/spend as much as i want/fulfil my dreams”…. the article talked about the trends of overspending, and of women wearing something less modest than what you would normally deign to wear in a church service and in front of all of their friends and family. interesting.
…the author basically called into question this a strange phenomena, because the point of the day (in a christian marriage) is for both to come before everybody to pledge self-sacrifice, pledge a life of partnership submitted to the community and its values.
Well said on the wedding front, Angela, particularly the last paragraph. I am not sure about weddings occurring within an actual Sunday morning church service (as mentioned in Kirk’s article), but the point of having them in a church at all really is to bring them under the blessing and rule of God, which is mediated by the church. I think this perspective, along with the focus of self-sacrifice and covenant you mentioned, would really help in changing our current attitudes about the extravagence and extreme couple-centeredness of contemporary weddings.
Regarding cost, that is bit trickier. I really rather do think a wedding should be a celebration, a communal one centered around one’s church and family and friends, and, as such, that may require some expenditure (feasts, in the old sense did, but unlike our society’s perpetual feasting did not happen that often), but that needn’t mean that we in the church need to slavishly follow the patterns of our day, not the least being a sort of bridal oneupmans(or womans)ship.
Well said on the wedding front, Angela, particularly the last paragraph. I am not sure about weddings occurring within an actual Sunday morning church service (as mentioned in Kirk’s article), but the point of having them in a church at all really is to bring them under the blessing and rule of God, which is mediated by the church. I think this perspective, along with the focus of self-sacrifice and covenant you mentioned, would really help in changing our current attitudes about the extravagence and extreme couple-centeredness of contemporary weddings.
Regarding cost, that is bit trickier. I really rather do think a wedding should be a celebration, a communal one centered around one’s church and family and friends, and, as such, that may require some expenditure (feasts, in the old sense did, but unlike our society’s perpetual feasting did not happen that often), but that needn’t mean that we in the church need to slavishly follow the patterns of our day, not the least being a sort of bridal oneupmans(or womans)ship.
What hauntingly beautiful photos. I’m particularly drawn to #4 and #10.