Not sure if it was Christians who put this wedding on … but we (those who house the God of creation and creativity) should be leading in creative expression, instead of being purveyors of boredom and dead ritual.
I love this wedding video (got emotional watching it), sob sob …
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This video brought tears to my eye also. Creativity or whatever, it was an awesome thing to see ourselves as the Bride, dancing out of and because of our relationship with our Lord.
I wasn’t a Christian when I got married and we had a beautiful, creative outdoor wedding that was a celebration of our love for one another & our individuality. I met Jesus a few months later and jumped into the IC with both feet. For years (more than 10) I wished that I had been a Christian when I got married so that I would have had a “traditional wedding” and “honored the Lord” with our ceremony. We even talked about renewing our vows in a more serious ceremony but that was never feasible.
Well, Praise the Lord!!!!! He has brought me out of the IC and I finally realize what a beautiful Jesus thing my wedding really was, and I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that even though we weren’t in a church, we weren’t very traditional, and we didn’t know it then, Jesus was there celebrating our union. I wouldn’t change a thing about my wedding now, except maybe had been even less traditional now that I know how FREE I am to do so! (I was raised in the IC and thought there were ways you were “supposed” to do things)
I literally cried when I watched this wedding. It is absolutely beautiful. A celebration of love.
Thank you for sharing this with our community here RC.
Awesome!! Can’t help but imagine how us (Bride) going to meet our Bridegroom (Jesus) might be like that 🙂
Wow, that was funny and fun to watch. You don’t have to do the same exact thing with the same song…but something like it. Who says you have to walk stoically down the aisle with a serious look on your face.
Awesome! I love that. I want to do something fun and non-traditional for my wedding. 😀
Thanks for the vivid illustration of how we should be more creative.
Incidentally, for hundreds of years people were not married in the ‘church building’ but in front of it or at home. Some of the most legalistic groups still do not do weddings in their building! I guess the buliding was too holy for something as earthy and carnal as human marriage. So there you go– for those who now think only a church building is appropriate for a Christian wedding, this is a fairly recent phenomena! Also note the high cost of renting a church building for your ceremony — even if you are a member and pay tithes to support that building !!! Kamp Krusty (blog) did a piece on that sad fact.
Organic church people have a great feedom to scale back weddings to an affordable but memorable occasion for most — or go all out crazy if they have the money and want to! (“When you give a dinner, remember the poor, lame, etc…”) I’ve already decided to ax the ‘minister’ completely if I ever get married again. We the couple shall ‘lead’ the ceremony! (My brother can sign the license for me later if he still has ‘papers’ then.)
I recently saw a friend’s great untraditional wedding where it was ‘performed’ by a husband/ wife team sharing the front. The vows started with “I set you free to be completely you.” Awesome!
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Wow, so do you know if the people in the wedding were in fact believers?
Funny! I saw some guys from my IC background discussing this very video about a week ago. They were talking about how aweful and immoral it was. They were especially uptight about the woman minister! They said they would NEVER allow such frivolity in “their” church. Perfect illustration of why I left!
I enjoyed that vid. Man I want to remarry my wife now! 😉
I posted this on my FB page about a week ago with the same response… A family member of ours, actually did the taping for this… what a redemptive piece huh?
I bawled my eyes out watching it, too!
Frank,
I love this!
I think the reason it is so moving is because it expresses people in community with one another…comfortable with each other enough to be flagrant and bold, and inventive with one another… yet each one expressing themselves uniquely freely, creatively..
It’s like this whole dance down the aisle is a metaphor for the real wedding, the real Bride and Groom dancing their way with their friends to the altar…
I loved it!
Wouldn’t you love to see what the wedding party had planned for the reception?
I can’t help remembering when a preacher made a visit to my parents house, back in the early 60’s.. The subject come up about dancing, and the elderly preacher was dead set against dancing of any kind and for any reason. He considered all dancing vulgar.
I asked what he thought about the dance the bride and groom do at their wedding.
He quickly left our house. I didn’t get to ask about King David, dancing before God. After all, he was a man after God’s own heart.
this song along jumped to #1 in digital sales b/c of this clip. Great clip! They can play together and have fun.
I frickin’ love this video for so many reasons:) Thanks for sharing it again.
we saw this a couple weeks ago and watched it over and over…. doesn’t lose it’s greatness even after watching it 50 times!!
Now that’s what I’m talking about!
That was great! Thanks for sharing this Frank. The ceremony and reception all rolled into one. haha A natural expression of the wedding party. :O)
How would a wedding party pull off something like this in a house church? A lawn wedding, perhaps, or at a rented hall…we might even visit one of those IC’s!
Alan, why would any group want to have a wedding in a home? That’s a strange idea to me. There’s nothing sacred or magical about a living room 😉
Love it every time I see it! Reminds me of a wedding we went to just about a year back where the whole wedding party (including the parents) exited the ceremony dancing to “I’m A Believer” from Shrek. It was great (and they are believers).
Although this is not my style, I loved it. I agree, Where is the creativity of Christians. Let’s see what originality that works we can come up in Christian life.
Whoohooo! Captures the joy of the wedding celebration like I have never seen before!
Gives me chills and a lump in my throat. Amazingly beautiful.
And people thought we were weird 25 years ago when at our wedding I walked down the isle with someone playing guitar and telling everyone to sing, “We will celebrate, sing unto the Lord, we will sing with Him a new song”. For both of us it was our second wedding and my 5 kids *teenagers) gave me away 🙂 LOVED THIS video!
This is wonderful…………i just love it.
God bless you always.
I had the same reaction.
Um. Not sure this video captures the very serious commitment that a wedding represents. It seems to be more of a parody of a wedding, which I think is sad and also reflective of the lack of regard our culture holds for the covenant nature of a wedding and the union of two lives. Boredom and ritual are not good, but neither is the spoofing of a very serious event.
Katie. It wasn’t a parody or a spoof. It was a real wedding where friends and family celebrated creatively with much joy.
That is AWESOME!!!!!