GUIDELINES FOR MARRIAGE — Before planning a church wedding, Catholics must participate in a six-month preparation period.
Love is in the air and often with the engagement comes an initiation into the crazed world of wedding planning.
With the average wedding taking approximately 14 months to plan and more than $23,000 to fund, is it desirable to have that perfect Cinderella wedding at all costs?
It can be easy to acquiesce to the myriad of extraneous details in planning those June nuptials; for example, is it that important to serve petit fours to 3,000 of your nearest and dearest? Or to dance the first dance to “Fly me to the Moon,” arrange limousines, lavish caterers, and professional photographers? Or worry about the matching Tiffany wedding bands, the dress, tuxedos, salons, cake and reception halls?
Celebrity wedding planner, Colin Cowie advises couples to hire a wedding planner in order to plan the ultimate party.
“And we will insert a ceremony into the weekend,” he said in his book, titled “Weddings.”
Insert a ceremony?
Outdoor weddings?
Or is it more important to simply stand before God, priest, family and friends embracing the holy sacrament of matrimony?
