A week ago Saturday, I attended my first wedding of one of my former homeschool students (although I did get to watch another former homeschooler’s wedding online during the COVID years). There is something amazing about someone I taught about the book Little Women 12 years ago standing before friends and family to establish her own family. I’ve remained good friends with her mother, although we’re both out of homeschooling by now. It was wonderful seeing her and her husband performing the roles of mother and father of the bride for their oldest daughter.

The bride and groom are just out of college. They are a sweet, humble couple with strong ties to their faith. So their wedding was very modest but heartfelt. The bride’s bouquet was a bunch of sunflowers and the groom and the groomsmen wore sensible tan suits. I think that often wedding couples, especially young couples, get so caught up in all the falderal of the ceremony and pre-wedding events and the reception and dresses and flowers and on and on instead of focusing on the real meaning of the event. But in this simpler, scaled-down wedding, the bride and groom’s love for each other shined brightly.

So today’s song is a song that was one of the couple’s big songs at the wedding I think maybe they when they walked into the reception for the first time? or something like that. It’s an oldie that I don’t think I’ve heard for years. But it seemed like a fun, upbeat song for a gray Carolina day. It’s a reminder that it is our attitude that matters more than our physical surrounding in whether we have a good day or not.

Enjoy!