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I met my wife-to-be, Sandy, during missionary training. For two years we kept the long-distance relationship alive on different sides of the world.

Toward the end of our terms, I popped the question, and Sandy accepted.

I wrote her father, whom I had never met: "I would like permission to marry your daughter and for your blessing on the marriage."

His response still tickles Sandy and me: "You have my permission and my blessing, but remember, there is no refund on mail-order brides!"

-Charlie Warren
Franklin, Tennessee

Our church fellowship hall has framed Bible verses on the wall—most of them extolling God's love and care. But at a recent wedding reception, another verse caught everyone's attention. Directly behind the cake table where the couple were cutting the first piece hung the warning: FLEE FROM THE WRATH TO COME!

-Nancy Camp
White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia

Shortly after my daughter's wedding, I turned happily to the groom's mother and said, "It's such a relief to know Devri has someone to take care of her now."

With a startled look, she replied, "That's funny—I was just thinking how glad I am Phillip has someone to take care of him!"

-Janell Wheeler
Skellytown, Texas

After forty-six years of marriage, my husband and I still chuckle about our four-year-old ringbearer's next-day panic when he asked his mother if he had gotten married the day before. "No," she reassured him. Little Jerry's reply: "Then what in the world was I doing up there?"

-Jackie Mickels
Madrid, Nebraska

My husband was performing a wedding, and I was the organist. Everything went smoothly until the end, when he forgot the line, "You may now kiss the bride." The awkward silence was broken by me trying to cue my husband with kissing noises. It got his attention, but it didn't sink in. Afterward he told me he thought
I was picking an unusual time to flirt with him.

-Janice Reese
Kingston, Oklahoma

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