Życiu najważniejsze samym swój wynik którego piętnem bohaterów pokaz los of yesteryear's weddings are gone. No longer is there the fun of decorating the nest. Why get excited about the honeymoon destination when they've traveled all over already? Who cares about their first dance, first toast, first anything they've been there, done that. to create a sense of excitement, today's couples have to beef up the wedding day with fancy cakes, elaborate favors and over-the-top gowns to get guests fired up for a wedding that has nothing to do with beginning a life together, but is more like a salute to themselves with the added bonus of gifts. Macken, New Times, Letters to the Editor, 6 It helps to compare a wedding and marriage to building a building. The wedding is the first shovel ceremony with the President of the Chamber of Commerce and the Mayor and City Fathers all present and then the senator makes a speech and turns the first shovel full of dirt and everyone present shakes hands and rejoices at the future of this building…but the empty lot still sits there. You have to build the building yet. Then you have to use the building. Then you have to pay for the building and keep the building maintained. And furnish it. And decorate it. A dedication is a nice thing and gets everyone pumped, but the work is just beginning. Bing Wall, ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Wedding Readings, Wedding Toasts, Vows, Rituals, oh, and Stamps While there are dozens above that could and often do serve as wedding toasts, here are a few submitted for this section. Can showing this at the reception and letting everyone try it: Why the wedding ring is worn on the 4th finger ancient Chinese wisdom Ah, the of getting married. Marriage Flag When you get married, create your Marriage Flag. Fly it at your wedding. Think of it as akin to establishing a country with its own mission statement and constitution. Talk about what it stands for, what it represents. You can add amendments from time to time, but establish the entity, and then protect it. Put it first. Do this for your kids. Where would they be without a country? Anonymous Make as often as you can and pay off your credit card debt every month. Put up a little sign somewhere where you both it everyday that says, Make not debt. Doherty We can't do ourselves justice by letting our tribute end the wedding ceremony. You have to move from ceremony to sacrament. Sacrament takes up where ceremony leaves off. Ceremony is like putting a ring on her finger at the wedding, but sacrament is ringing her life with and every day and every hour. A Toast from Father of the Groom We can all that you're madly That's definitely the first challenge to find someone with whom you want to spend the rest of your life. But the trick and challenge I want to propose to you is that you set out with the goal of falling a little more every day. that by the time you're eighty, you're that you wobble when you walk. To do this, you have to have a plan and you have to be deliberate. here's to falling a little more each day-and to and Jenny. Anonymous A Toast from Father of the Bride I wish for you beautiful babies. I wish for you ever stronger collaborations, team work and partnerships. I wish for you conversations and short fights which inexorably and successfully move the whole mass forward. I wish for you that you always laugh at each other's jokes and understand each other's prose. I wish for you good health each other's arms. I wish for you fidelity especially trying times. It's the crucial link that holds it all together. I wish for you romantic marriage vacations time away for