This past weekend I had to work a wedding because one of our volunteers (who is a God-send) had to go back into the hospital to treat his cancer. I of course didn't mind doing the event, and my associate, Mickey, did a great job of prepping the sanctuary for it. I don't get invited to very many weddings, and of the ones I get invited to, I go to even less of them. This is for no particular reason. Usually scheduling conflicts because most people wed on Saturday night, making it hard for me to get back to my job on Sunday morning. But I do have to say, weddings give me the creeps.

On a side note, I found out this past week that the first of my ex-girlfriends is getting married in two weeks. I have always wondered who out of all the people I have dated would be the first, and sure enough it was Teresa! Congrats Teresa, and know that the reason I can't attend has nothing to do with weddings giving me the creeps. But I digress.

I know, I know. Why in the world would they give you the creeps? They are about the joyous unification of two souls eternally in the sight of God through the bond of commitment and love (and sex!). Their should be nothing creepy about that, and you're right their shouldn't be.

But I can't help to think, at least at some point in every wedding, that this is the event that starts a news story 15 years down the line about a deranged wife killing her husband and taking the kids across state lines. Or the common story about how a man reaches his mid-life crisis, freaks out, looks for something younger to make him happy and leaves the same person who is being given to him up on stage right now in misery.

Consider it the by product of living in the "divorced generation." Maybe just consider it my cynicism towards life (I don't usually consider myself a cynic, more a realist, but I guess that is what a cynic would say). This is not to say I have given up on love or marriage. I am not Charlize Theron who watched her father kill her mother and has vowed never to "ruin a good thing" by getting married. I still ultimately believe that marriage is a divinely instituted relationship that far exceeds any other relationship and quite possibly gives us the best picture of God's relationship with us. So it should be clearly stated that marriage does not give me the creeps, just the weddings!