The Wedding Day. a Marriage Perspective:

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THE WEDDING DAY A MARRAGE PERSPECTIVE: My father was a traditional, reasonably wealthy father-of-the-bride. I was the first of his five daughters to walk down the aisle and he was determined to make it a day to remember, but a day to remember for him and his friends, I think, more than for his daughter and prospective son-in-law. To this day, we still joke about the fact that for the main course of the wedding dinner lamb was chosen. Neither my husband nor I like lamb and we have never eaten it since! The other fly in the ointment as far as my husband and I were concerned was the fact that we were being married by a priest, known to my husband’s family, whom neither of us liked or respected. Yet again, in order to please parents – this time my husband’s – we had no say in the choice of person who would perform that most important of sacraments with us. We were lucky in that we did a pre-marriage course for eight weeks before our wedding so, despite our youth (we were both twenty-two) we did get to discuss on a basic level some of the issues that would face us. On the morning of my wedding, I became extremely nervous and full of doubt as to whether I was doing with the right thing or not. I’m sure this is in common with many other prospective brides. I was so nervous in the car on the way to the church with my father that I asked the driver as we approached the church to do another circle in order to calm my nerves. Yet once we walked back down the aisle together as man and wife I felt very calm and very happy. From the first day of our marriage almost to today I was always the one who would say ‘we could split up’. I’ve yet to be proven right. Our hopes on that day was that we would go off into the sunset (which was Portugal – but that’s a whole other story!), have a wonderful honeymoon and come

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