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by Leslie Halstrom

Complete Article:  A Courthouse Ceremony Was My Dream Wedding

Marriage is the most private of institutions.  My husband & I wanted to celebrate this most sacred of all contracts in privacy.  Deciding to marry was a very personal journey for us – and selfishly, maybe, we didn’t want to share the moment – or be responsible for making the moment special for anyone else but us.

We talked forever about what marriage means to us.  It was almost like establishing a country with our own mission statement and constitution.  We continue to discuss what our union represents to us – what it stands for.  We will add amendments as we grow and change together – but we have established the entity and vowed to protect it at all costs.

I like the observation made by Rev. Joseph Lowery: “We can’t do ourselves justice by letting our tribute end in the wedding ceremony.  You have to move from ceremony to sacrament.  Sacrament takes up where ceremony leaves off."

For my wedding, I will dress in black,
And never again will I look back.
Ah, my dark angels we must part,
For I've made a sanctuary of my heart

To want what I have,
To take what I'm given with grace
For this I pray,
On my wedding day.

For my wedding, I don't want violins,
Or sentimental songs about thick and thin.
I want a moment of silence,
And a moment of prayer
For the love we'll need to make it
In the world out there.

To want what I have,
To take what I'm given with grace
For this I pray
On my wedding day,
On my wedding day.

I dream, and my dreams are all glory and light,
That's what I've wanted for my life.
And if it hasn't always been that way
Well, I can dream and I can pray,
On my wedding day.

So what makes us any different from all the others,
Who have tried and failed before us?
Maybe nothing, maybe nothing at all
But I pray we're the lucky ones; I pray we never fail.

To want what we have,
To take what we're given with grace.
For these things I pray,
On my wedding day,
On my wedding day.

-Don Henley

Needless to say, our courthouse wedding was my dream wedding.  Make your day exactly what you jointly want it to be.

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