Through you, God is saving people!
In one of the wedding Gospels, Jesus is a guest at the wedding in Cana. In that story, we are presented with a God who does not want the wine to go dry, who is present to our lives in our moments of joy and need, and who is ready to change a moment of shame and sadness into an unimagined blessing. In the same way, God changes the water of your life into wine in the person of your spouse-to-be, and calls you, through the sacrament, to do the same for others, wherever and whenever there is "not enough wine."
Similarly, Psalm 34, one of the responsorial psalms for weddings, calls upon us to "taste and see the goodness of the Lord" in our experience of our own lives. Those of us who have been blessed with the experience of the profound human love that leads to marriage know that this is nowhere more true than in the love shared between lovers. Having known God's blessing in our own lives, we are called to share it with the poor and lost, so that they too will know God's love, and join in the rejoicing.
The wedding liturgy attempts to express all these realities in a way that actually makes them happen. We at St. Anne's are committed to assisting you in preparing a beautiful, memorable, meaningful wedding service.