(Name) and (name), this is a very special day in your lives. You have gone to great lengths to make it beautiful. Now if only there were some way to insure that your marriage would be beautiful, all the days of your life. I say this, remembering what one wit said, "There's entirely too much worrying about unhappy marriages. Everyone knows that all marriages are happy. It's getting along together after the marriage that creates the problems."

I think you would agree that almost every marriage begins beautifully; maintaining beauty in the relationship is infinitely more difficult. However, God has left you neither helpless nor hopeless. He has a great investment in you both, and his promise is that he will stand by you to provide you with his mercies, that your marriage might grow in depth …