Dara's wedding (imported from Myspace)

I just got back today from a quick trip to Chattanooga to attend the wedding of my cousin Dara, who is three years older than me (28). She is a law librarian in Chattanooga and is (or rather, already has!) married a lawyer named Bryan. I have been so excited for her about this - seems to me that she has waited on God to bring her the right man. She is older than I was when I got married. I am not sure whether she experienced inner turmoil during the season of waiting, but what impresses me is that she DID wait. She didn't jump at just any man - she waited for God's man. You can tell just from a brief meeting with Bryan that he is committed - both to her and to the Lord. Their wedding reflected their mutual genuine desires to honor the Lord in the ceremony. Both sets of parents are examples of godly marriage and committed Christianity. His dad prayed the benediction prayer and her dad, Byron (my uncle), did the charge to the Bride and Groom. And what a charge! No pastor could have done better. Byron is an english teacher by trade anyhow, but he was so very eloquent and had such a powerful challenge. He had two brief points. That in order to guarantee success and honor God in your marriage that you should: 1) Love the Lord they God with all your heart, mind, soul and strength; and 2) To "Him" be true (an altered paraphrase of the quote from Hamlet, "To thine own self be true"). His challenge was that if we will love God and dedicate ourselves wholly to him that our marriage will fall in line in the way that it was designed to. I was challenged and renewed by it. (I dang near cried too! - still don't know how Byron got through it while standing there looking at Dara and Bryan all decked out in their wedding garb!)As an afterthought. Dara's dad is Byron. Her husband is Bryan. Her brother is Brandon. COULD WE PLEASE GET AWAY FROM NAMES BEGINNING WITH BR-!