An Arminian summer wedding...?

There was a wedding I attended this weekend. Two friends of mine were getting married. Two of the sweetest, Christian people I know - they compliment each other so well. He is kind and mild-tempered and she is caring and even-keeled. The best part is they both love the Lord completely. And it was a lovely ceremony (as far as summer weddings go). Green was the theme color and the flowers were simple and bright Gerbera daisies.

While the ceremony was Biblical, it was surprisingly rather man-centered. The pastor officiating spent the majority of the time focusing his talk around the couple. So they, the couple, were the center of the marriage they were about to enter into, they were the producing effects of lighting fires in the hearts of others.

I just sat there, on edge, waiting, praying that it would come, where God would be given the full glory of this union - that He would be commended to the couple to run to first and only - that it would be acknowledged that there is no comfort in anything apart from enjoying Him - and that maybe the tone would be set for their new life together to spread a passion for the supremacy of God in all things for the joy of the people they will come into contact through the course of their covenant marriage. But it never came.

It made me think that, if God has predestined me for marriage, I want my wedding ceremony to be simply dripping with the doctrines of grace. I want the Gospel boldly proclaimed in my wedding that God would be exalted and magnified by the ceremony...and likewise glorified in the marriage.