Nuptials!

Weddings! Weddings! With grandchildren coming of age, there are nearly always weddings on our horizon! The happy events require much planning for today's "venue" weddings. Although two of our granddaughters' weddings are months away, gowns are already selected, venues reserved, and countless details are being taken care of.

Daughter Amy, mother of bride Corrin, recently spent a day on forays to florists for daughter's meticulous requirements. Both mothers of the future bride and groom have been putting their heads together about the rehearsal dinner menu and reception plans.

All six of my children had church weddings. No venues of barn weddings or antique country houses to be considered. With only two daughters, I managed their lovely, but modest by today's standards, weddings. I didn't bear the brunt of our sons' weddings as much as did the bride's family.

I didn't realize how much is involved in preparations until I heard my granddaughter, Allison, saying they had to get printing and mailing done. I thought it was a little early for a June wedding, but a few days later I received a "Save the Date" card with important details and a great picture of the happy couple.

What if everyone were as concerned for readiness in meeting our heavenly bridegroom as modern wedding planners are today? Someday we will meet Him at the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, Revelation 19:7-9:

"Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. (8) And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints. (9) And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God."

We don't get a "Save the Date" card, but we have the Bible, which says no man knows the day or the hour of our Lord's return, so it pays to be ready!