At a recent wedding at Saguaro Buttes this “Wedding Memorial Table” was on display during the reception. A beautiful table cloth, with nice framed pictures of loved ones and memorial candles, on top of our black baby grand piano, makes an elegant setting. This is a nice way to remember and honor loved ones who were very important to the Bride and Groom, and may have recently passed. Some might believe that these Memorial tables invoke sadness or focus on the past instead of the future during what is suppose to be your most joyous day, but this is not the reaction that I commonly see during the reception. It doesn’t seem to invoke sadness, but rather, fond memories of loved ones who meant a lot to the family. I recently found this poem, whose author is unknown to me, but what I feel is worded wonderfully.
Poem�
Though your smile is gone forever,
And your hands we cannot touch,
Still we have so many memories,
Of the ones we loved so much
Your memory is our keepsake,
With which we’ll never part,
God has you in his keeping,
We have you in our hearts
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Although we cannot see you
We know that you are here
Smiling down, watching over us
As we say “I do”
Forever in our hearts
Forever in our lives
And so we say our vows
In loving memory of you