Wedding Pictures Part 11: Communion

Possibly one of my favorite pictures ever.

Some people have strong feelings around Communion being served at Catholic weddings.  If you're curious about the rules around Communion, you can read more here. It might also give you some ideas about why people have strong feelings about it (rules around who can receive Communion, why, etc.).

You all being nice people, we decided that none of you would be grumpy because you love us. We're both Catholic, so receiving Christ on our wedding day seemed fitting. Why would we not invite Christ to be part of our ceremony? Anyway, Kenneth's family always has Communion at weddings. The more we thought about it, the reasons to have Communion were more compelling than not and agreeing to have Communion was one of the easiest parts of planning our ceremony.

Anyway, so at this point, Monica and Erin (Kenneth's cousins and our altar servers) waited with Fr. Dick for the gifts to be presented (I think that's how it's described).

 Aunt Mary, Uncle Bruce, and their daughter Elizabeth brought them up.

Fr. Dick consecrated the bread and wine.

We prayed the Lord's Prayer, and our guests raised their hands in prayer over us... no, that's not a gesture common in Germany during WWII, despite the look of things.

Next came what I call "the peace-be-with-you," but what's actually called the sign of peace. Which, at a wedding, is another chance to get hugs in. We were all about the hugs on our wedding day... if you escaped being within 10 ft of us without a hug I'd like to know how because I would be pretty darn impressed.

And, after all that, we were all ready for receiving the Eucharist.

Phew. Ceremony is almost over. Just a song, a few detail shots that didn't find their way into a previous post,  and a kiss to be had, then off to the party.