wedding

The groom always smiles proudly because he's convinced he's accomplished something quite wonderful. The bride smiles because she's been able to convince him of it.

The voice welling up out of this little man is terrific, Harry had noticed it at the house, but here, in the nearly empty church, echoing off the walnut knobs and memorial plaques and high arched rafters, beneath the tall central window of Jesus taking off into the sky with a pack of pastel apostles for a launching pad, the timbre is doubled, richer, with a rounded sorrowful something Rabbit hadn't noticed hitherto, gathering and pressing the straggle of guests into a congregation, subduing any fear that this ceremony might be a farce. Laugh at ministers all you want, they have the words we need to hear, the ones the dead have spoken.

Dear newlywed wife, somebody out there is determined to shape your view of intimacy and marriage. You get to choose who will shape your opinion; the Author of marriage or offended humans?

I am forever grateful for not knowing__hat would have been. WHAT WILL BE holds none of those bittersweet pangs and it is lit w joy.

Was it the happiest day of our lives? Probably not, if only because the truly happy days tend not to involve so much organisation, are rarely so public or so expensive. The happy ones sneak up, unexpected.

I married a man who was as much a part of me as my own soul.

We are still on our journey, still suffering and still laughing together. But I feel like the tide has turned, and I think we will have our happy ending yet. Even if it doesn__ look like what we were expecting.

They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two.

Every bride is beautiful. It__ like newborn babies or puppies. They can__ help it.

There would be more happily married couples in the world if people spent more time planning for a married life than for a wedding?

Marriage is a partnership, not a democracy.

Love, they said, burns youand builds you.But with you, there__ no ash.Just light.

A spouse who refuses to cultivate or fan physical intimacy first devalued the marriage in their mind and priorities. Spouses who defile their marriage bed first lost honor for their marriage.

Do You BelieveDo you believethat I have loved yousince the dawn of time?Do you believethat we were destinedto be intertwined?...

Do You Believe...on this road of lifeon this dayI take younow husband and wife...

Where your heart is, there is your treasure of happiness.

Lieutenant Mortas is the black sheep of the family--I thought you knew that.