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Tonight we went to a wedding of a good friend of Sean's. Some of our summers have been full of weddings and some are on the light side. This was the first of two we are headed to before school starts up again. Sean and Jason worked together in Sunnyside and now are still good friends thanks to a little game called World of Warcraft. Sean stood up for Jason as one of his groomsmen. Many things occur to me during wedding season. In this case one of those things is how handsome my husband looks all dressed up in a tux. Another thing that occurs to me is that no matter how many years go by after our own wedding and no matter how much I know I can't go backwards I still like to critique other people's weddings. Sean has taken to asking me as soon as we get into the car what I thought of each part of the ceremony. He loves to hash over things with me. And I like to see the things that people choose that I would have loved to copy or things that don't really appeal to me. The variety is vast! Lastly, the biggest thing that occurs to me during a wedding is how much of a reminder it is for us and our marriage. During our ceremony our minister talked a great deal about the committment that marriage is. Love is not all it takes to make a marriage successful. When I don't wash the dishes one night or when Sean doesn't turn on the entry way light it is not love that makes our marriage work through those disagreements...it is the fact that we've chosen to commit to each other. Love is there and it is great and it is the biggest part of our relationship. But, God designed it with committment in mind as well. So as I sit through someone else's wedding what a gift it is to witness the beginning of their life together but also what a gift it is to look back at the almost seven years we've been man and wife to see how God has honored that committment.