{"id":27786,"date":"2013-11-22T18:08:19","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T23:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/?p=27786"},"modified":"2016-09-30T15:59:39","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T19:59:39","slug":"love-at-first-sight-grooms-seeing-their-brides-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2013\/11\/love-at-first-sight-grooms-seeing-their-brides-for-the-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Love at first sight: grooms seeing their brides for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/56\/2013\/11\/enhanced-buzz-16880-1349274022-6.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-27787\" title=\"enhanced-buzz-16880-1349274022-6\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/56\/2013\/11\/enhanced-buzz-16880-1349274022-6-575x383.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"575\" height=\"383\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I love this.<\/p>\n<p>Check out <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/mattbellassai\/24-grooms-seeing-their-brides-for-the-first-time-6z51\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">this amazing gallery of reactions<\/a>,<\/strong> compiled last year by Reddit. \u00a0See if it doesn\u2019t make you smile and, just maybe, wipe away a tear.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/56\/2013\/11\/enhanced-buzz-21819-1349207188-61.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-27789\" title=\"enhanced-buzz-21819-1349207188-6\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/56\/2013\/11\/enhanced-buzz-21819-1349207188-61-575x431.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"575\" height=\"431\"><\/a><br>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love this. 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