How weddings are done
  • kevinfkevinf
    Posts: 1,183
    Well...here is how we do weddings in the archdiocese of Louisville. One of the people actually works for the parish in religious education. Yes, this is a Roman parish.

    Yeah..we are getting good formation in this part of the world.image
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  • BenBen
    Posts: 3,114
    Goodness gracious.
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  • Reval
    Posts: 180
    Is this just part of a photo shoot? I don't see anyone else in the photo. Although it looks silly (sacrilegious?) in church, can we hope that it is not part of the actual wedding ceremony?
  • kevinfkevinf
    Posts: 1,183
    Its part of the ceremony...sorry to say.
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  • Scott_WScott_W
    Posts: 468
    Weddings stopped being an act of worship and turned into an ego trip long ago. The tandem bike is just a logical conclusion.
    Thanked by 5Reval Vilyanor Ben Spriggo Casavant Organist
  • VilyanorVilyanor
    Posts: 388
    Man, and their clothes look so classy. Why?
  • Scott_WScott_W
    Posts: 468
    Man, and their clothes look so classy. Why?


    Good catch! The woman is wearing a relatively modest dress, which is a rare thing these days. I guess when you are going for comic effect, you need to ratchet up the incongruity.
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  • irishtenoririshtenor
    Posts: 1,295
    You've got to be kidding me. What priest allowed this to be done in his parish? Kurtz lets this kind of nonsense go on in his diocese?
  • ryandryand
    Posts: 1,640
    1. Relatively modest? What's immodest about it? Her visible neckline?

    2. If they came from outdoors on that thing, they're gonna track a lotta dirt on that nice blue carpet, and it's gonna be packed in there pretty good. Might need to remove the carpet after this skit.
  • Scott_WScott_W
    Posts: 468
    1. Relatively modest? What's immodest about it? Her visible neckline?

    Fine. I'll concede it's modest which is easy because I'm more interested in the question of why bother with a modest dress when you are already in full spectacle mode with the bicycle. Any thoughts?
  • johnmann
    Posts: 175
    Man, and their clothes look so classy. Why?


    He's wearing white after Labor Day. Tandem bicycle liturgical procession fits right in.

    Judging from the other pics of the wedding at the website, the bike was a surprise gift from the groom and the pic was part of a post-wedding photoshoot for the bicycle themed wedding (seriously).
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  • RomanticStringsRomanticStrings
    Posts: 337
    Perhaps there was no foresight, but instead each element of the wedding was subject to whim and fancy without any thought toward coherence or ceremony.
  • MatthewRoth
    Posts: 1,947
    I don’t care about the bicycle, though I think it’s gimmicky. But at least do it outside the church and well after the Mass. This is ridiculous.

    On a related note, pray that the archdiocese hires the right person with the correct understanding for the director of the office of worship.
  • kevinfkevinf
    Posts: 1,183
    Don't worry Matthew..they didn't.
  • VilyanorVilyanor
    Posts: 388
    No white after labor day is one of the sillier rules of fashion that I'd readily break. Especially with evening dress. I'm impressed he went with the white dinner jacket over the vastly overrated and pretty hard to pull off (without looking costumey) black tuxedo. But… Bicycle…
  • canadashcanadash
    Posts: 1,499
    You know, there is a lot of good in this photo, but one not so good which just messes the whole thing up.
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