Wedding
A couple of my best friends got married Saturday. It was at a Byzantine Catholic church. I have seen a couple of Orthodox weddings before so I had some idea what to expect but I wasn't sure what would be the same and what would be different
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* Only three of the panels were doors, had there been a full mass that would have become obvious.
* The church hadd the full ornate crowns, up till last week that's what we were going to use. Then we discovered that mine was too small for my head, and Heather's was too large for hers. The tradition for the Byzantine Catholic church is actually to use crowns woven of flowers.
* There was actually a circular walk around the gospel, we even walked around it three times, did you fall asleep somewhere in there?
* Swapping things back and forth may or may not be standard for them, but given that for both the rings and the crowns (or whatever the appropriate term is) her's nearly fit entirely in mine there would have been some technical difficulties with swapping.
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I thought I saw hinges on both the outermost panels and the panels immediately next to the Holy Doors. But as I was not near the front it must have been something else (or my imagination :-).
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The crowns are sometimes connected and sometimes not but as we were in a small space and the crowns were made for us--by me actually--they were not connected.
As far as the switching in tradition it is given from God (tetrapod blessing) to the priest and then to the groom and finally to the person's hand. for crowns it is from God to the priest to our heads and back to God.
lets see... other than that... had Jason been catholic there would have been a mass entwined with the service with (yup you are right) the mystery and it would have been much longer.
feel free to toss me questions if you have any either on here or email. I am sure that I missed something since I am posting from my phone so I will post more later.
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