Red Carpet At Wedding

by Denise
(El Paso)

I attended the wedding of a friend and thought I was at the wedding of royalty. The guests were all seated in the church. The mother of the bride came in. Then, the wedding party came down the aisle--maid of honor, bridesmaids, flower girl and then some woman rolled a red carpet right down the aisle and the bride and her father then came down the red carpet to "Here Comes The Bride". It was one of the strangest and most bizarre things I have ever seen at a Christian wedding in a Nazarene church. The bride and groom were both members of this church. I had been Nazarene my whole life and had been to many Christian weddings but this was a first.

The red carpet being rolled down just for the bride was too much. Oh, by the way, the bride left the groom after just two years of marriage. He was heartbroken that she just packed and moved out of state to go and live with relatives. It was so sad, especially after all of that royalty treatment. (There was a lot more than just the red carpet.)

I guess if you want a red carpet at the wedding, it would be okay, but I feel that it should have been rolled out prior to any of the wedding party or even the guests got there. The way they did it, it was like the bride was too good to step on the already beautiful carpet in the church but it was okay for her wedding party and guests to walk on.