If you’re in the midst of wedding planning it can be so, so easy to become consumed by your wedding day. It’s the biggest event of your life and in just a few short weeks or months you’re expected to host this amazing event with heartfelt details, the perfect color scheme, and on top of it all entertain 100+ guests (maybe even more)… no pressure, right? I completely understand the desire for your day to be “perfect” and that you want it to be everything you’ve dreamed it would be, and I hope that it is too! Weddings are meant to be a celebration of the journey you are beginning with your spouse, and a time where you stand before God and your loved ones and make a public proclamation of your vows. Weddings are about the marriage.
In today’s society though, weddings have become less about the marriage and more about the moment. They’ve gone from being about God and the couple to just being about the bride and what makes her happy. They have become watered down and often miss the mark of what they are truly meant to represent. If I could sit down and talk with each of our brides just about the importance of marriage vs. the wedding day I would in a heart beat, and I would easily speak for far too long and with probably a little too much passion.
At the end of your wedding day you’ll walk away, not carrying with you the perfect color scheme or the sparklers from your dream exit, no, you will walk away with a marriage. A promise of forever, no matter how difficult the circumstances. What you promise one another on your wedding day in the midst of those beautiful, perfect moments will become something you begin to live out when life isn’t so picturesque. There will be days you probably wish you had thought those vows through a little bit more, days where things get real and tough… But that’s what your vows exist for. So as you plan, remember that you’re promising someone your forever and take time to weigh what that really means. Life will never be easy, but marriage is worth every tough time and every sacrifice.
“Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.” Mark 10:9
Blessings,
Katie
P.S. Check out our latest work here on the blog with John & Stacey’s Mathew’s Manor wedding!
