Family Wedding

We spent our weekend in Lake Charles, LA so we could be a part of my brother's wedding festivities.  Friday evening was a quick rehearsal and then the highlight, a crawfish boil.  My brother, Bug (his real name is Jonathan) did the crawfish himself, and they were amazing.

Saturday was the wedding, and while they've only been engaged for about 2 and a half months and didn't have much time to plan, the wedding was absolutely beautiful.  It was an outdoor wedding at Heidi's family property, a plot of 41 acres, complete with cows and everything! 

The guys wore boots and cowboy hats while the girls were dressed up.  It was a great combination of the elegant and rustic.  Heidi's dad built a beautiful wooden structure for them to get married under. 

The bridal party arrived in a horse drawn carriage, and once Bug and Heidi were declared Mr. and Mrs. Aymond, they rode away to the reception in the same carriage. 

I think my favorite part about their wedding is simply seeing my not-so-little brother grow up and become a man.  He's 25, so he's been in the adult category for a long time, but I've loved seeing him take care of Heidi.  He helped take care of many of the details for the wedding, he helps her dad out with the cattle on weekends, and more importantly, he's making sure they're at church on Sundays.  There are few things that impact a family more than a husband's strong leadership, and he's setting that foundation early.  I'm praying that this will continue, and that he will lead them into a godly marriage and family. 

Welcome to the family, Heidi!  We love you both!



The following passage was read at my wedding, and if every married couple lived by this principle, their marriages would thrive.

Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves; do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others.  Have this attitude in yourselves, which was also in Christ Jesus, who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men.  Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.  For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus, every knee will bow, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.