You may now kiss the bride...

My husband and I attended the wedding of one of his co-workers over the weekend. I have attended several weddings in my lifetime and found the timeline of this particular ceremony quite odd.

I realize everyone is different and has their own ideal ceremony. When we were married 5 years ago, we decided everything from the order of the ceremony to the wordings of everything our paster (my dad) said.

Whoever did the deciding chose to say their "I do's" before her father gave her away. Then the pastor told her to put the ring on his right hand. This was obviously just an oversight because Richard promptly took the ring off and switched to the left hand. It did explain why th bride had just a hard time getting the ring on his finger. The pastor then told him to kiss his bride, which he did. With tongue. Lots of tongue. Not church tongue.

Normally, this is the part where the pastor would say, "It is my priviledge to present to you for the first time, Mr. and Mrs. Blah-blah." No, from there they both instinctively turned to the unity candle and a man started to sing "I Swear" by John Michael Montgomery. Very. Twangy. Very. Badly. I just found it odd that the candle was not lit prior to the kiss.

I think my favorite part though was the music at the end. After the song, the pastor presented the couple. The pianist start to play the traditional song, du dududu duh, dududu- LONG PAUSE... because the pastor said something that I don't remember because I was to distracted by the long musical pause... DUN- DU DU DU DU DU DU DU DUDU DU DU DU....

I think I laughed out loud. We really did enjoy the wedding. They had amazing champagne at the wedding. Delightful. His other co-workers did not stay for the reception so we sat at a table for 10 with 2 other people. Thankfully, they were like the champagne. Delightful.

Have a blissful Monday!