So the wedding happened and the bride cried. One hundred and fifty people packed our little village church to capacity... pretty much all of them related to either the bride or groom. There was a real sense of the coming together of two families in a very traditional way that made the whole occassion feel somehow very ancient in charecter.
This was somehow emphasised when family members gathered around the very ancient register we have at Cragg after the service to look at family members' marriages through the ages.
Some of our entries date back to 1837 when the current church was built and you couldn't help but sense that connection with the past as this young couple reunited these two families. This is the real heritage of the church, for the building through the ages has changed but people's emotional connections to the place where they have come for their life events is timeless and unchanging.
As we come to make changes to the bulding we need to somehow keep that heritage. A difficult task, but one we are as up for as our forbears were.
Just managed not to shed a tear as I stood in the place where my predecessors did what i did, watch the miracle of two lives coming together and making one plus one make more...
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