The Century on weddings
When Nadia and I got married, we really went all out on the worship planning. She spread out multiple worship books, adapting her favorite parts and writing collects and petitions from scratch. I recruited not one or two but ten friends to lead the music and then got to work writing original service music, reharmonizing hymns, and notating all of it to match in the bulletin.
About that bulletin: it was epically thick. A friend asked me if I sent it to the Library of Congress for archiving. Early in the service, Nadia and I stood to sing the first of many songs, felt the heft of the individual bulletins for the first time, and laughed about the fact that we'd basically self-published a journal:
