Sadly, this is about more than one actual couple whose weddings I have photographed.


If It Doesn't Look Good On The Photos, We Don't Want It

They wanted the perfect wedding day,
So told the guests that their children would not be included
On the invitation,
Because they wanted noise and distraction to be excluded
From the ceremony.
They also demanded the request
That colour-and-style coordination of attire
Be according to Them for every guest,
So that there could be
No deviation
From the laws
Of decoration
That determine the right-thinking
Godly,
And eject the uncontrolled, immoral
Oddly.

The wedding went with only the intended hitch;
All strictly to plan:
But God stayed outside, with the children,
And left the church to Man.
This suited the couple,
As anything supernatural, they thought, could be
Somewhat beyond their control,
And really not what should be
For a proper church wedding,
In morning-suit and white-white gown,
In a picturesque chapel,
In a chocolate-box town.

It had to be a town several miles from their own,
As all of the local churches thought it both wrong and odd,
To marry two people
Who didn't believe in God.




Poetry by Mark J. Wood
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Written on 2006-12-05 at 14:27

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Parnika
The institution of marriage has become a reproduction of childhood dreams of perfection instead of a lifetime promise of commitment..why do ppl get married this way if they don't believe in god?, I wonder...
2007-02-16


Teala
The last part of this gave me chills..it has bothered me thinking about people who don't believe in God in some form--regardless if they are Christian, Jewish, Muslim,etc being married in a place of worship. They may have had perfection for the photographs--and obviously that is the only thing that mattered to them..
2006-12-10



This is a well written poem. I like the context, and the way you wrote it, but really what's the matter, with marrying 2 people who are in love and want to be connected legally and mentaly answer me that.

~Kiva
2006-12-05



I know what you mean! Somehow, these tend to be the most boring weddings ever!
2006-12-05