Happy wedding season! Who doesn’t love weddings? Only the hardened cynic can refuse the flutter of hope, the expectation of joy at the sight of a bride dressed in glittering white! Spring has become wedding season in America with weekend-long bridal fairs and the appearance of thick glossy magazines advertising every imaginable detail for the wedding to remember. But have you ever thought of Easter in wedding terms? In Jewish culture the bride-to-be and her father welcomed the groom-to-be and his father for the much-anticipated conversation about making the couple “official.” What price was the groom’s father willing to pay for the virtuous young woman? What guarantee would be given that this young man’s word would be kept? Would the lovely bride-to-be accept the invitation? Would her father? If all went well and both parties agreed, they sealed the deal and celebrated with a glass of red wine. This old hymn reminds me it is for a wedding feast and a marriage that
For the Bride
For the Bride
For the Bride
Happy wedding season! Who doesn’t love weddings? Only the hardened cynic can refuse the flutter of hope, the expectation of joy at the sight of a bride dressed in glittering white! Spring has become wedding season in America with weekend-long bridal fairs and the appearance of thick glossy magazines advertising every imaginable detail for the wedding to remember. But have you ever thought of Easter in wedding terms? In Jewish culture the bride-to-be and her father welcomed the groom-to-be and his father for the much-anticipated conversation about making the couple “official.” What price was the groom’s father willing to pay for the virtuous young woman? What guarantee would be given that this young man’s word would be kept? Would the lovely bride-to-be accept the invitation? Would her father? If all went well and both parties agreed, they sealed the deal and celebrated with a glass of red wine. This old hymn reminds me it is for a wedding feast and a marriage that