This morning, we had our regular meeting with the Parish Youth Ministry. Charm, our parish youth coordinator, prepared a team building activity that we reflected on. During the reflection, we noticed that people in the church were preparing for a wedding ceremony.
The people running around the church caught my attention. It was as if they were rushing to decorate the aisle with seemingly rushed flower arrangement and thin blue and white ribbons. Then we thought: don't they have a wedding planner or an organizer? Obviously, they have none. An old lady with altar boys was helping to put all that was needed including the red carpet. We watched them do things all in a haste.
After our meeting, we decided that we would wait for the wedding march before going home. We blurted out our thoughts on the wedding like the navy blue motif is a good choice, the people who were invited were too noisy, some of them looked like they don't know what to do, the ring bearer, flower girls were too young to walk on their own down the aisle, and a lot more.
We talked more about the weddings. Jade said that one of the dreams of women is to walk down the aisle. I think it's true and I even added that mine is to wear a wedding gown. It is undeniably true that most couple nowadays got pregnant first before signing to the marriage vows, which ended up in civil weddings. Then I told them that I think it would be less costly if the wedding would take place in the reception venue itself. Because for one, there will only be one venue to be decorated. But I think it would only apply to women who want a beautiful and overly decorated aisle to walk on. And the other reason is that people need not to go to another location for the continuation of the celebration. Well. it's just what I thought, but still, church weddings never get out of style.
We were always like that when there is a wedding in our church. We tend to notice everything and we tend to realize what we want in our own big day. We tend to think of the motif that we'd like and the children we'd choose, who can walk down the aisle on their own. We tend to think of what wedding march is appropriate, whether it is live or recorded. We tend to think where are the possible locations for the reception. We tend to think if we're alright with civil weddings. We tend to think when will we get married and with whom or if we'd get married or not, at all.
Weddings made us daydream.
Needless to say, all of us who talked about the wedding want to get married with the one, deserving of our unconditional positive regard and love.
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