A perspective to consider as you plan your wedding:
“The act of getting married is a kind of dress rehearsal for a shared life….Weddings symbolically condense and display how a couple intends to live their life in relationship to family, culture, friends, spirituality, and success….[The wedding presents] an opporunity for the couple to start designing a blueprint and laying the foundation for the future cultural and religious framework of their new family.” (Joel Crohn)
Over a nice warm cup of your favorite beverage, consider more consciously what blueprint and foundation your wedding plans are presenting, especially your ceremony. Welcome your pride at how well you are doing. Invite your partner to look at it again with you if there is something there which isn’t you or isn’t the way you want to go. Spring also invites you to see the future cultural and religious framework of your new family as the garden you are planting, the seeds you are sowing. Even making one more intentional or conscious choice in that direction will affect not only your experience of your day, but your satisfaction with the life you are beginning together. Enjoy!