I was excited to learn that they'll be serving beetroot blinis at the Royal Wedding breakfast. And there will be edible flowers on the wedding fruitcake. Oh yeah - and there are 32,500 stitches in the waistcoats they're making for the footmen. Yes, the news folks have gone a little "daft" (British-ism) over the wedding of William and Kate.
News anchors are flocking to London like swallows flocking to San Juan Capistrano. It's amusing to see them getting on-air lessons in royal etiquette and which hat to wear. Normally cool journalists have turned absolutely giddy!
You can't miss it - this wedding is a really big deal.
But, then, so is every wedding. Actually, you could say that every wedding is a royal wedding. Because the King is the Guest of honor, invited or not.
You can see that in the Bible where some religious folks were wondering why God wasn't responding to their prayers. Surprisingly, His answer was about their marriages.
He said, "'The Lord is acting as the witness between you and the wife of your youth, because you have broken faith with her, though she is your partner, the wife of your marriage covenant. Has not the Lord made them one?...Do not break faith with the wife of your youth. I hate divorce,' says the Lord God" (Malachi 2:14).
The King of all kings is there when a man and woman pledge their lives to each other. He doesn't sign the marriage certificate, but He sure is a witness.
And He takes our marriage vows very seriously, whether we do or not. God says He has "made them one" and "what God has joined together, let man not separate" (Mark 10:9).
Every wedding, every marriage, every couple really matters to God. He's there at every wedding, and He takes the vows as promises to Him.
But it's not just His presence at the wedding that's significant. It's His presence in the marriage. He's the glue when conflict is pulling you apart...the source of love when yours has run out...the Surgeon who can change a heart...the third Person in your marriage who's a couple's "go to" place when there's nowhere else to go.
I love it that, of all the places Jesus could have done His first miracle, He chose to do it at a wedding. And that's where hope is for a marriage that seems too broken to fix. Because He still does marriage miracles. Sometimes all the King's horses and all the King's men can't put a marriage together again.
But the King can.