Nancy DeMoss-Walgamuth asks you to imagine a very unusual wedding. I want you to imagine,

if you would, a great, spectacular royal wedding. All the preparations have been made, all the

announcements have been sent out, the invitations have gone out, the people have responded,

they've come to the wedding,

and they have found a beautiful building filled with flowers of every description. The sanctuary

is fragrant. There are bows and beautiful decorations everywhere. There's gorgeous music playing.

The groom to be and his groomsmen come and take

their place at the front of the auditorium. And now all the guests have been seated and the

wedding is ready to start. The candles have been lit there everywhere. And then the familiar

strains of the wedding march.

Bum, bum, bum, bum.

And what happens?

Everyone stands up all the next turn and crane in one direction.

What are they looking for?

The bride.

And we're in that wedding. We're in that auditorium and that sanctuary, and we're eager to see the bride.

And we turn with everyone else.

And we're standing in a place where it's not really easy to see,

and so we're trying to look around the people who are between us and that bride

who's coming down the aisle in the arm of her dad.

And finally we get just a little glimpse of her.

And every bride is beautiful, as you know.

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