What is love?
A lot of couples ask me, "How religous are your wedding services?"
In my opinion, religon is very much so ,"a man-made institution" and is a works based salvation. The more work you do, good deeds you do, more sunday church you attend, well, the message is the closer to God you'll get. But none of that is biblical. It says clearly in the bible that we are saved through J.C.'s grace alone and it is our faith, not works, that we will see the light. So the problem is that there is too much religon in Christianity. I truly have no problems with other faiths: buddhist, hindu, muslim, scientology, you name it. The only religon which I think is truly one to laugh at though is Mormonsim because it sounds really "Marvel Comic" like. They believe God lives on the Planet Kolab, and if man doesn't drink coffee, wears special underwear, learns secret handshakes, and a lot of other stuf...like takes part in baptism for the dead....then man can become a god. I'm not kidding!!!
SO LET ME DESCRIBE THE CHRISTIAN APSECTS OF MY WEDDINGS AND EXPLAIN THEIR MEANING...
Most of my weddings, I would say about close to 100%, are Christian weddings. In the beginning we always talk about how women came to be. That in the book of Genesis it says that God took a rib from mans side to create woman. Now, it is always important when you study scripture, to read and understand slowly. There is a reason why God chose to create woman from Adam's rib, not his ear, not his foot, and not any other bone. The significance is that woman should neither be above or below man, neither in front, nor behind man, but always at his side. In other words, his companion, his partner-in-crime.
Next Christian thing in my wedding....well where would we be without reading what LOVE IS.
According to websters dictionary, love is the following: A profoudnly tender passionate affection for another preson, a sexual passion, a feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection. Hmmm.... You know, it's funny here because even websters can't define what love is. They sure have no problem defining other emotions of the human spectrum: joy, hate, anger, happiness, but why do they struggle with defining what love is? Could it be something more?
I find the best definition of love to be found in the Bible, 1 Corinthians 13. And in that chapter it says what love is. That love is kind, love does not envy, love does not parade itself, love is not puffed up. Love does not behave rudely, for love does not seek it's own. It is not provoked, thinks no evil, for love rejoices in the turth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. For the three greatest things in life, faith hope and love, love is the greatest. To sum it up, according to the Bible, LOVE IS A COMITTMENT, love is not an emotion. And I think it hits it right on the money here. Emotions come and go. You can never be happy 100% of the time, nor can you be angry 100% of the time. It is scientifically impossible. But can you LOVE 100% of your life...till death do you part, of course you can. That is scientifically possible.
So these are the two Christian things that we put in our wedding service other than the vows and the rings. We can customize other stuff in there as well!!! DO WE DO CIVIL WEDDINGS? YES..THAT IS ALSO NOT A PROBLEM.
NOW ONTO THE WEDDING!!!
INTRODUCING..."THE HOMERS!!"
October 23, 2006 Kapiolani Beach Park
Great family portrait! You can see that sun setting fast!
Now here's a few funny facts about this wedding. This wedding took place at Kapiolani Beach Park, in the portion of the beach which is known by locals as the "gay beach." Yes, this straight wedding couple got married at "gay beach." It wasn't my idea actually. It was Corinna's, the bride. How do I know that it's gay? Well, funny story, my friend and I, who are 100% straight, would bike there with our shirts off. For some reason we would get whistled at everytime we went by there. And low and behold, when we turned to see who was whistling, it was men. Now, just as a note, I have nothing against gays at all. One of my good friends is gay.
Corrina actually planned a near perfect wedding. She had a rental company build a bamboo arbor for her, and she had that same company put a few loud speakers on the grass so she could play some cool music as she walked down. The only problem, the beach patrol came by and told her wedding party that no speakers were allowed on the beach!!! Consequently Corrina would have no music to walk down too!
I like this shot...see how the sun is directly behind the couple, and I can still retain full color of the background, and not have her dress washed out...ONLY FILM CAN DO THIS
Well, as fate would have it, Pastor Bob Fa'apouli, had his ukulele with him. And with his super awesome voice, he volunteered to sing the Hawaiian Weddings Song at her wedding as she made her way down the isle. Some things just work out for the better don't they. Other than those things, the wedding went very smooth. Both Corrina and her husband wrote a few special words to say to each other. Lets just say there was not a dry eye on the beach.... And you could feel the love, you could feel the committment between the two.
With the ceremony done, and the storm clouds moving in, and the sun beginning to set, we actually switched the post cermonial activity into high-gear. I knew for a fact we had to move ourselves through a lot of family shots, and wedding shots in less than an hour...so I got to work.
The weather just held up beautifully. And needless to say, we acutally got some remarkable shots that ONLY FILM CAMERAS ARE CAPABLE OF OBTAINING... Just being honest here....haha...
Till next time... "Wedding Guy" Steve
p.s. you can see all of the homers shots at " http://web.mac.com/thehomers "
posted by Steve Young @ 11:47 PM
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