Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were married two years ago today. Their wedding took place in St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle in the UK.
According to Nielsen, 29.2 million people in the US watched the ceremony. The event aired across fifteen US television networks. All fifty-three countries of the Commonwealth were honored on Meghan’s veil through representation of a flower from each country. She arrived at the chapel in a Rolls-Royce Phantom IV, reportedly one of only sixteen ever built.
Their wedding cake took five days to prepare and required a team of six bakers. It was decorated with 150 flowers. A team of twenty-five chefs created approximately 7,500 food items for the couple’s lunchtime reception. According to CBS News, the entire wedding cost approximately $45 million.
I have stood where they stood. St. George’s Chapel is a fascinating historical site, originally founded in the fourteenth century and extensively enlarged a century later. It is the burial place of Henry VIII among many others. I cannot imagine a more significant place to host such a significant wedding.
Why you and I are members of the royal family
By contrast, my wife and I were married forty years ago next month in a ceremony that cost much less than $45 million. Our venue was our church in Houston, Texas, a sanctuary that also doubled as a gymnasium. Our family and friends were in attendance, but no one in the media reported on the event.
The good news is that my wife and I are just as valuable to God as Harry and Meghan. In fact, Scripture says of us, “You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light”…
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