Elope. That's what we did. The basic idea behind a wedding is to see if the couple can survive it.

Well, I'm kinda partial to George C. Scott's "Patton" speech, but then I'm a bachelor...

There is a wonderful CD called Perhaps Love, by Placido Domingo with John Denver. The songs are wonderful....give it a listen.

Elope. That's what we did. The basic idea behind a wedding is to see if the couple can survive it.

Aye. There is a great deal of truth to these words! (Best friend going through wedding planning right now....)

1 Corinthians 13

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If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

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And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

3

If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful;

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it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;

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it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right.

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Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

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Love never ends; as for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.

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For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophecy is imperfect;

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but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away.

11

When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became a man, I gave up childish ways.

12

For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood.

13

So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

I can think of a thousand better ways to spend the money, however the better half would probably neuter me.

I dunno. Ordinarilly I'd have a long list of sites and ideas (the wife and I frequently consult or provide music for weddings).

But these days, I'm thinking simplicity is the best. That's what I'm looking at for our family Thanksgiving and Christmas. Simple times to be with family (with some family being "simple" as well).

Thanks, that's one of my favorites. I did want to see what else was recommended by the vast experts of freeperland.

My wife walked down the aisle with "Canon in D" by Pachelbel. It was great.

"The Prayer" by Celine Dion and Andrea Bocelli is really pretty for prelude or postlude.

We had a four string quartet, and my sister read the passage about the Lilies of the Field for us. Then my husband "prighted" me his troth.

Ave Verum by Mozart is nice. Canon in D, Pachelbel, is a standard wedding song, as is Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring by Bach.

Good ones, thanks mucho

We walked out of the ceremony to the Indiana Jones theme and people really got a kick out of it.

"Then my husband 'prighted' me his troth."

Man, that sounds dirty...

I know couples who broke up over the color of the invitations. Here's the key for the guy: Stay out of it. When she asks "Which bridesmaid dress do you like?", there is NO right answer. You are doomed. Pretend you are choking to death. It's your only hope.

Elope. That's what we did.

That's a great idea. I begged my husband to do so, but he would have none of it. Strange, b/c it was my first marriage, his second.

Solo - The bride will sing, "I'd Rather Have Jesus"

For the recessional - "The Battle Hymn of the Republic."

For the reading, Ben Franklin's quip - "Enter marriage with your eyes wide open. From then on keep them half shut."

I only have one suggestion for you:

DONT DO IT