That's a perfect solution. Yes! It's just that it feels awkward to have an official church meeting as someone's wedding. It's not even the gift thing for me. It's the fact that they are throwing a party for a specific couple as the official church activity. From what I've heard, the couple has no family around and they are fairly new in our ward. Well that's fine, I don't have any family in the immediate area, either. When my husband and I got married, no one from either family came to our wedding, and when we were sealed 4 years later, no one came, since we're converts. Anyway, if they set a precedence of having a wedding as an official church meeting, then what's to stop the ward from having all future baby showers, bridal showers, missionary homecomings/send-outs, and wedding receptions as official church meetings, too? We could just do away with weekly Mutual and the activities committee could be renamed the party-planners. Relief Society activity committee could be the decorating committee. This could quickly become a problem, as I'm sure there are events such as these going on in everyone's lives all the time. The problem I have with it is that I don't believe a wedding ceremony can really be the type of event that can fulfill the true purposes of Relief Society. It just doesn't sit right with me as an official church meeting. Cancel RS and invite everyone to the wedding. I would feel so much better about that!
