Wedding Blogging

Patrick Nielsen Hayden informs us that Fred Clark and his S.O. are now Slacktivist and Slacktivixen, which is an honourable estate, instituted of God in the time of man's innocency... which holy estate Christ adorned and beautified with his presence, and first miracle that he wrought, in Cana of Galilee; and is commended of Saint Paul to be honourable among all men: and therefore is not by any to be enterprised, nor taken in hand, unadvisedly, lightly, or wantonly... like brute beasts that have no understanding; but reverently, discreetly, advisedly, soberly, and in the fear of God; duly considering the causes for which Matrimony was ordained... (i) for the procreation of children, to be brought up in the fear and nurture of the Lord, and to the praise of his holy Name... (ii) for a remedy against sin... [for] such persons as have not the gift of continency might marry... [and] for the mutual society, help, and comfort, that the one ought to have of the other, both in prosperity and adversity...

Comments

[Delicious Pundit]

My favorite wedding reading, which I liked so much I stole it for my own wedding, was from Wallace Stevens' "Notes Toward A Supreme Fiction":

Two things of opposite natures seem to depend
On one another, as a man depends
On a woman, day on night, the imagined

On the real.This is the origin of change.
Winter and spring, cold copulars, embrace
And forth the particulars of rapture come.

Music falls on the silence like a sense,
A passion that we feel, not understand.
Morning and afternoon are clasped together

And North and South are an intrinsic couple
And sun and rain a plural, like two lovers
That walk away as one in the greenest body.

[derrida derider]

That is indeed a nice epithalamion, dp.

But what is it about the wonderful cadences of 17th century English? we seem to have lost it.

[PaulC]

After this posting and the one about Ta-Nehisi Coates, I'm starting to wonder if Brad has a side business as a Universal Life Church wedding officiant. He seems to be selling something... and given his politics I don't think it's some kind of "defense of marriage" claptrap.

[rea]

"But what is it about the wonderful cadences of 17th century English? we seem to have lost it."

In the early 25th century, people will be yearning for the wonderful antique cadencees of 21st Century English. Absence makes the heart grow fonder . . .