timelightbox: In the LDS (Mormon) faith, wedding ceremonies are considered so sacred they are not held in public. Only “temple worthy” individuals who hold what’s called a temple recommend may attend. Often, just parents and select family members participate in and witness the actual wedding. Everyone else must wait. While attending my sister’s wedding at the Timpanogos Temple in American Fork, UT, my sister Rachel and her family happened to be sitting underneath a painting of Jesus. He’s depicted kneeling next to a tree, hands clenched toward heaven in the Garden of Gethsemane, atoning for the sins of the world while bleeding from every pore, as the story goes. This was a revealing, almost humorous, juxtaposition between the everyday lived religious experience of believers and that of the religious figures believed in.  Happy Valley on Kickstarter | Happy Valley on LightBox (via our guest-blogger photographer Brian Shumway)

timelightbox:

In the LDS (Mormon) faith, wedding ceremonies are considered so sacred they are not held in public. Only “temple worthy” individuals who hold what’s called a temple recommend may attend. Often, just parents and select family members participate in and witness the actual wedding. Everyone else must wait. While attending my sister’s wedding at the Timpanogos Temple in American Fork, UT, my sister Rachel and her family happened to be sitting underneath a painting of Jesus. He’s depicted kneeling next to a tree, hands clenched toward heaven in the Garden of Gethsemane, atoning for the sins of the world while bleeding from every pore, as the story goes. This was a revealing, almost humorous, juxtaposition between the everyday lived religious experience of believers and that of the religious figures believed in. 

Happy Valley on Kickstarter | Happy Valley on LightBox

(via our guest-blogger photographer Brian Shumway)