The Wedding
Day 19/30
"Don't ask me to leave you and turn back. I will go wherever you go and live wherever you live. Your people will be my people and your God will be my God. I will die where you die and will be buried there. May the LORD punish me severely if I allow anything but death to separate us!" - Ruth 1:16-17(NLT)
I've done weddings in backyards before. Actually, I've done more backyard weddings than church weddings. So, that didn't really seem out of the ordinary to me. But when I read the start time of the ceremony to be 3:31 PM, I should have known something was up. As I welcomed everyone and introduced the bride and groom, the bride's two daughters... adult daughters, mind you... burst into song. Just as I thought this must be a joke on mom & dad-to-be, mom herself (yes, the bride) joined in. I thought maybe I had stepped onto the set to Grease III - The Wedding or the Rocky Horror Wedding Show. Taking my cue as a proper traditional pastor, I improved my own musical ode to the moment when I busted out the Black Eyed Peas, "I gotta feelin... I gotta feelin'... that tonight's gonna be a good night... tonight's gonna be a good, good night!" Yes, I sang.
Then we get to the part where I ask them to exchange rings. He places the ring on her finger and it's all good, right? So, when I ask her if she has a ring for him, she says, "Well, he's already got part of it." Yeah, I had the same blank look on my face as you do right now. The groom holds up his hand showing a ring tattoo around his ring finger, and says, "I've just got to get the stones done." At which time, he walks away... yes he did! ...the groom walks over to a porch where the bride's son... adult son, mind you... finishes the ring tattoo on his dad-to-be. A tattoo in the middle of a wedding ceremony - Incredible!
I totally took this photo with the camera on my phone and uploaded it to Twitter& Facebook right then. Yes, while performing the wedding.
And the whole thing ended with all the kids lining up and the groom's 90-something year old dad handing out a quarter to every single one of them! I ended up with my 4-month old's quarter in my pocket. What a great wedding with some great people! Afterward, the groom said to me, "Unpredictable and fun; that's how I expect this marriage to be." I love it! And... I got a feelin' that tonight IS gonna be a good good night!
"Don't ask me to leave you and turn back. I will go wherever you go and live wherever you live. Your people will be my people and your God will be my God. I will die where you die and will be buried there. May the LORD punish me severely if I allow anything but death to separate us!" - Ruth 1:16-17(NLT)
I've done weddings in backyards before. Actually, I've done more backyard weddings than church weddings. So, that didn't really seem out of the ordinary to me. But when I read the start time of the ceremony to be 3:31 PM, I should have known something was up. As I welcomed everyone and introduced the bride and groom, the bride's two daughters... adult daughters, mind you... burst into song. Just as I thought this must be a joke on mom & dad-to-be, mom herself (yes, the bride) joined in. I thought maybe I had stepped onto the set to Grease III - The Wedding or the Rocky Horror Wedding Show. Taking my cue as a proper traditional pastor, I improved my own musical ode to the moment when I busted out the Black Eyed Peas, "I gotta feelin... I gotta feelin'... that tonight's gonna be a good night... tonight's gonna be a good, good night!" Yes, I sang.
Then we get to the part where I ask them to exchange rings. He places the ring on her finger and it's all good, right? So, when I ask her if she has a ring for him, she says, "Well, he's already got part of it." Yeah, I had the same blank look on my face as you do right now. The groom holds up his hand showing a ring tattoo around his ring finger, and says, "I've just got to get the stones done." At which time, he walks away... yes he did! ...the groom walks over to a porch where the bride's son... adult son, mind you... finishes the ring tattoo on his dad-to-be. A tattoo in the middle of a wedding ceremony - Incredible!
I totally took this photo with the camera on my phone and uploaded it to Twitter& Facebook right then. Yes, while performing the wedding.
And the whole thing ended with all the kids lining up and the groom's 90-something year old dad handing out a quarter to every single one of them! I ended up with my 4-month old's quarter in my pocket. What a great wedding with some great people! Afterward, the groom said to me, "Unpredictable and fun; that's how I expect this marriage to be." I love it! And... I got a feelin' that tonight IS gonna be a good good night!
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