Friday, January 8, 2010

Cousins Getting Married!! (Spiritual Wedding Advice)?

My cousin named Dulce created a wedding website. She would like us to sign her guest book. I would like to leave her some spiritual wedding advice. This is what I've written so far, please let me know if I have any grammatical errors, or if I should change anything.





Thanks again everyone!





Dear Dulce,





As you begin to embark on this wonderful journey of love, compromise and understanding; I send you my eternal blessings for a happy and prosperous marriage. Your wedding day will become the cultivation of all the seeds of love and hard work, you and Ralph have planted throughout your relationship. Marriage isn't only an institution created by man, but also by God. Marriage is so important to our Creator, that it's even applied to Christ and the Church. Christ being the Bridegroom, and the Church (The body of believers) as the Bride. So as a Bride, remains faithful and anxious for her Bridegroom, we too who are the bride of Christ wait with great anticipation for the day when we will be reunited with our Bridegroom. Until then we remain faithful to Him.





In the words of St. Paul:





';Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.';





-Till Christ Returns





God BlessCousins Getting Married!! (Spiritual Wedding Advice)?
I think that your Greeting was beautiful.





It is your own wording and straight fromt the heart.





I don't think anyone else can improve on your own greetings and your


own wishes for the couple.





It's your personal original touchCousins Getting Married!! (Spiritual Wedding Advice)?
if you want to get really technical with the grammar:


-delete the commas after ';hard work';, ';Creator';, and ';Bride';.


-un-capitalize ';The'; body of believers


-change ';christ being'; to ';christ is'; (otherwise it's a sentence fragment)





but even if you left it as is, it sounds wonderful :) great metaphor to remind her of before she gets married.
End it at ';also by God';. Otherwise you end up subjecting your friends to a fairly inappropriate sermon, when you want to congratulate them. ';Marriage isn't only an institution created by man, but also by God.'; is plenty enough witnessing for your faith.


Moderation in all things is a virtue.
Before you get married they should keep three days abstinence from food(I mean they should eat only food made from plants) sex,bad thoughts, fighting,dirty words,no smoking and of course they have to pray and many others.Of course I did not say they do that but I just said.It is good to fast three days because marriage is for life.I am orthodox from Romania. For every good thing must be a sacrifice(3 days of fasting)
It sounds good up to the part where it ends throughout your relationship.I think there is enough spiritual advice there in that paragraph.Like another person the whole message could be misleading the point of what you are trying to say.
The subject of this was totally misleading! Oh well. Anyway. I think what you said was lovely.
you had a good start but then it became too religious .

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