I was just dusting off the framed marriage certificate of my parents this morning. The frame is cracked and crumbling at parts and the lettering is fading away into eternity. But it bears witness of a beautiful beginning.
Just a parlor gathering, with a few close friends, family and the bishop was all that it took to set, eventually me, in action. From Mother's notes they went back to her home for a big meal and that was it!
The average wedding today now checks in at $28,000.
That was 1935 and, yes, everything has inflated drastically since then. Still.
The inscription at the bottom of the certificate is "And Boaz took Ruth and she was his wife."
And Abram took Mabel and she was his wife.
And the marriage lovingly lasted 'til death parted them. Amen.
On a shoestring.
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