Ernie doesn’t often post in MennoLight, his OP seemed to request light-hearted input.Joy wrote: ↑Tue Feb 01, 2022 8:55 am "Worldly" sure is a handy label to stick on other believers. No requirement to prove the charge, or even define it.
How must God feel when we do this?
I've been guilty of it myself, but with age comes (thankfully) wisdom, and a realization of God's character and our own shortcomings and sins.
When i was growing up, in a not-Anabaptist home, my mother had some words of wisdom about weddings, i think ring true.
Possibly first was to respect other peoples’ weddings. Then, that the bride should not be “up-staged.” This is her/their once in a lifetime day, it should be respected. When it’s your day, it’s your turn.
White represented purity, sometimes there were gasps, esp if this was a second marriage, even of a widow. (i didn’t happen learn about Queen V until years later.) The popularity of the QV connection might be to simply detract from scriptural reference to purity. i don’t know.
White/ivory was not mandated. It came to be expected. It was to represent purity. There was a privilege to it.
By now, in the world, after BC pills, it means nothing. No one gasps when a multiple-divorced woman wears a bright white fancy wedding gown, tightly fitted, sometimes cut like a stripper’s costume. $$$$
Ernie may correct, for sure.
i didn’t understand the OP to be so much about Christian wedding customs, as about unique choices different couples have made for their day. The links on Page 1 reflected “unique.” Blizzards, horses.
Maybe if the request was “How was your wedding?” it would less critique-y.
i’m interested in all wedding customs.
when my grdaughter was young, i had an idea to try to compile a book of various wedding customs with her, for her.
my daughter warned against, pointing out pushback if it did not include SSM.