I'm building a wedding expo.
That's the confession before anything else. Forty vendors. A fashion show. A food truck row on what used to be a community swimming pool, in a museum garden in Anniston. I am, in some technical sense, the wedding industrial complex.
I read Brad East's piece in Christianity Today last week. He knows the critique — the debt, the expectation, parents going broke over one Saturday. He knows it and mostly agrees with it. But he musters one or two cheers anyway. I can manage one.
I wrote the full essay — the church ladies who held it all up, and the woman who married a man she knew had cancer — over on Southern Legends.
Read the full essay at Southern Legends →
The Aisle is October 18 at Anniston Museums & Gardens. Tickets at theaisle.app.
The Aisle Expo
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The Aisle Expo. October 18 at Anniston Museums and Gardens.
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