Matrimony is called holy, because this brave and fateful promise of two people, to love and honor and serve each other through thick and thin, looks beyond itself to more fateful promises still, and speaks mightily of what human life at its most human and most alive and most holy must always be. Every wedding is a dream, and every word that is spoken there means more than it says, and every gesture - the clasping of hands, the giving of rings - is rich with mystery. And so it [is that] we hope with every person, that the love they bear one another, and the joy they take in one another, may help them grow in love for this whole world where their final joy lies.
--Frederick Buechner
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