Marriage is not Glamorous

I found a new blog that is going into my rss reader called City of God.  Here's a good quote from Lauren Winner about the disjunction between weddings and marriage.  This is apropos for me since I have just picked up two couples for pre-marital counseling, and I agree with what she says here:

In an article for The Cresset, Lauren Winner writes of the confused logic of the modern wedding. The problem with modern weddings is not the fact that they are celebrations. The problem is with how they are celebrated. Weddings are glamorous fantasies. But what marriage is glamorous? There is a serious disjuncture between weddings and the marriages they make. Winner writes that her marriage is complicated and hard, realities which weddings conveniently ignore.

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