As I'm wearing a pair of socks labelled as "socks to stay home in", I'm obliged to stay at home today. I've been watching some very educational TV-the Style channel. First, I watched a show about a wedding planner. I repeatedly heard the phrases"I want everything to be perfect", "It's my day." Not once did the brides show any concern for their guests, exept when the guests were used as props so the couple would look popular in their wedding pictures. A friend recently shared with me that things that have a bad beginning tend to have a bad middle and a bad end. (Like Lemony Snickett's A Series of Unfortunate Events.) I recall my own wedding. Mr. M. and I wanted our home to be full of love and fellowship, looking to the interests of others as well as ourselves. This in mind, we wanted our new life to start off reflecting that desire. We had no wedding planner, no professional make-up artist, no walkie-talkies, no one to remind me to bring the wedding rings. My mom made the centerpeices. We wanted to have a big party with family and friends, and have good food and good fun. We didn't talk about "my day." It was our day-as much his day as mine, as well as a day for both families and friends; it was also their day.
Then I watched a show about a wardrobe intervention. Apparently you can be as grouchy and impatient as you want, and no one cares as long as your'e wearing nice clothes.
Oh, how different are Christians from the unbelieving world! So much selfishness and materialism . . . so little regard for holy institutions (one bride had her 5-year old son give her away!)
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You are so right. Interesting how selfishness is perfectly okay on "your" wedding day, although it will be the exact thing to ruin "your" marriage. I can't tell you how many girls tell me what their wedding will be like--ever since I was in like 5th grade. I just laugh. As humans, we are so completely unable to control everything, and yet we grasp to do so. "It's my wedding, and I'll whine if I want to."
Wouldn't that be awful, if, when reminiscing on your wedding day, the first memory to come to mind was that your flowers were the wrong color, not that it was the beginning of a new life, and the joy you felt in committing yourself to the love of your life?
I can't imagine getting so worked up over petty details when it should be a supremely happy day free of cares.
With less and less people choosing to get married, I am not sure if little girls grow up dreaming about their wedding day.
Little girls dream about having a big party where they get to wear a fancy gown and be the center of attention. I think they do dream about their wedding day, but not about the marriage or the man that goes with it.
I know EXACTLY what you mean...I've seen plenty of those shows and what's even sadder is that some Christians even start to fall into the temptation to think it's "their day." Lord forbid our hearts even get to that point.
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