So last night with met with our Priest Fr. K and I absolutely LOVE him! Yes, his homilies are excellent and everyone i know who has witness one of his officiated weddings they said he was great. But actually sitting down with him in the office wearing his shorts, t-shirt and flip-flops I love him even more!
Getting ready to meet with him was quite funny; i think i changed my clothes three times. I even made matt change a couple times because i thought his shirt was too wrinkly. Then i made sure we were NOT late, the last thing id want was starting off with him on the wrong foot! But we got there and he was so welcoming and he made us laugh and feel totally comfortable. It's like right off the bat he knew we were good for each other.
One of the things he told us was he is not there to 'prepare us for marrage,' this is something we have been doing our entire lives. He had so many neat and interesting things to say, one of which was when he asked us why we wanted to marry the person sitting next to us. Matt had so many sweet and loving things to say ( i had almost as good of things to say... matt sometimes has a way with his words). What Fr. K said was this: that as we live our lives together these things we said about each other will not be the same reasons why we stay married in the future. What a cool thing to think about. I almost wish we could have tape recorded this conversation so we can play it back to each other in 10-15 years.
Overall i left the meeeting really excited about working with him a few more times before the wedding; he is really fun to talk and really relatable. You wouldn't imagine this with a preist. This preist is actually quite young and, really the best word to descibe him, is kinda 'cool.' He was in Cincinnati Magazine last week as one of the cities most interesting people. He has quite a lot of accomplishments already and he is only 39! Earlier this year he was also in the Business Courier's Top Fourty Under Fourty... he has such a neat life. Driving home matt and I were talking about how we want him to become the Pope in like 30 year or something.... wouldnt it be awesome to be able to say the Pope married us!?!
We left with a bundle of information and lots of stuff to talk about. We did take that compatibility test but as you read the questions they are only for those 'red flagged' marriages. Like: Do you feel you future spouse is abusive, or is there certain financial habits your future spouse has that worry you? And one of my favorites, Are there certain homosexual tendencies your future spouse has that may cause a problem in your future ? REALLY? And I bet people have agree to these statements before or else WHY WOULD THEY ASK THEM? I think we are good.
We also arranged an appointment with the Music Director and got a paper to start planning our readings/readers for the ceremony. Some of the other questions involved like who is walking down with the Mothers? Where do the attendants stand? What order will they come down? How do we want to be introduced?
WHERE IS THE USER MANUAL FOR THESE THINGS!?!? Gosh, i have no idea! There is one person I have in mind that I would like to ask to be a part of the ceremony, matt has 2... I've already asked one. it's going to be interesting how we decide on these things.
BUT FUN!
Alright enough wedding talk... on to ther things in life.
Happy Hump Day!
2 comments:
Sounds like fun!!! I'm glad you like your Priest! That is so important! :)
actually some of the wedding planning books talk about where they stand, etc. typically the groom's mom is walked down by the groom's dad. if they are no longer together, one of the groomsmen walks her down. the mother of the bride is walked down by a groomsman or the bride's brother. our attendants walked down in order of our friendships with of course the maid of honor last.
you'll figure it out!
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