There are several questions that a minister asks in a wedding. These questions asked are almost rhetorical. The answers are predetermined as are the questions themselves. "Who presents this woman in marriage?" "Do you take this woman?" "Do you take this man?" It is ceremony. It is tradition. We ask these questions, not because we don't know the answer, but becuase it is our western tradition to do so.
I married a couple this week in one of the two wedding venues that I manage. I went through my littany of rhetorical questions and got to this one. "Do you have the rings?" .....silence.....
....red faces....no rings. Someone said, "they're upstairs in my coat pocket." So, we sent the photographer's wife upstairs to retrieve the missing rings.
We got them married and on their way and with a fun story to tell.
