I hate to say it…but I’m that one friend who is friends with everyone. Therefore, I’ve been in a lot of weddings.
But my favorite wedding that I’ve been to thus far…is my little sister’s wedding.
My little sister met her husband in Raleigh, North Carolina at Elevation Church. She sings on the worship team and he’s on the tech team for the morning services. Mutual friends introduced them.
He has said that from the moment he met her, he knew she was his wife. She, however, was unsure.
She wasn’t unsure about being attracted to him. She wasn’t unsure about the legitimacy of his faith. She wasn’t unsure about his ability to lead the family and father her children.
She was unsure about our family’s reaction to his skin color.
Me and my sister are white, and her husband is black.
But, she prayed about it, told him her feelings, and they worked through it with both families. And as a result, the wedding was truly magnificent.
Two very different cultures – one Southern black, the other Northern white – both Christian, came together to commemorate a heavenly conglomeration of love. The food? Pizza and fried chicken. The music? A little bit of everything. The prayers? Powerful, powerful, powerful. The flowers? Gorgeous…and so very colorful. Fallon’s Flowers did incredible work.
Overall, the wedding was proof that as Christians meet other people who share their faith but who don’t look like them or have a similar background as them, they are exposed to more of God’s image.
And what more beautiful way to capture that than at a wedding?
Jordan Williamson 