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Kalled2Preach said:

Upon further thought (because I commented on that matter slightly in another thread a while back) I realize that sex doesn't automatically equal marriage. In posing my though about the union being already existant, I was thinking more along the lines of the couple already being committed to each other. The ceremony would just be publicly validating this commitment that had already been made (at least in terms of the way our modern ceremony is done). Is this correct?

For a couple like you (Jeremy and Auni who have pledged to marry each other in October 2006) your engagement is a promise to marry which has not yet been consumated. You are not yet married to each other. The wedding ceremony binds that committment before witnesses and the Lord and then the two become "one flesh." That's why the pastor always concludes the wedding by proclaiming "I NOW pronounce you husband and wife."


Wes

When I survey the wondrous cross on which the Prince of Glory died, my richest gain I count but loss and pour contempt on all my pride. - Isaac Watts