Stay Laser-Focused On This Truth: No Matter What Happens, You’ll Be Married!
When a close friend got married last year, I was wondering how she managed packed workdays, bridal boot camps, and family drama as she also managed the usual endless wedding details and tasks. And given this year’s pandemic realities, having myself recently planned a major event with a lot of moving parts, I can only imagine how much more complicated a wedding must be today.
Yet I also I remember with crystal clarity something Jeff said years ago when he saw me getting caught up in all the details and worries over whether our own wedding would be the one I’d always dreamed of. He put his hands on my shoulders to stop my recitation of the problems with the caterer, the soloist’s scratchy voice, and the bad storm that might sweep in right as we were supposed to be taking our beautiful send-off pictures. He said, “No matter what happens, at the end of the day, you and I are going to be married.”
The full-time job of planning a wedding can so easily make us lose that perspective.
Don’t let it. Remind yourself what your wedding day is really about: not putting on a show but committing to one another for life, before God and your witnesses.
In our case, each of those big worries I had actually came true. The scratchy voice caused some issues, the caterer did indeed run out of food, and the storm was epic. And yet because Jeff had moved my vision onto what mattered most, I wasn’t troubled. We were married!!
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