a wedding

This past Sunday, a wedding was a part of the church service. The liturgy just sort of stopped after the offering, and a guy in a tux and a woman in a wedding dress got up and were married. Then the wedding paused while the bride and groom served us communion, then the pastor did the whole kiss the bride thing, then the benediction and that was the end. It was easily the simplest wedding I've ever been to, and it was incredibly beautiful. I'll bet this was cheaper than a Saturday wedding too. And what a great theology of church. I don't even know these people, but I was invited to their wedding because they chose to have it in the middle of a church service that I happen to be attend. This has changed my entire hermeneutic for what a wedding should be. What a great thing, not to invite only close family and friends, but to invite your local instance of the body of Christ to attend your wedding.