I like to think of it as a marriage in the biblical sense. We are leaving our families to form a new family — one that is under God's guidance.

This is bigger than the three of us. We do not want to blow this ... bailing out is not an option.

And they want the church to show them a better way in which to live.

There is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love.

And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate.

Am I really admitting that my sister is determined to marry a man she has only seen once and doesn't much like the look of? It is half real and half pretense - and I have an idea that it is a game most girls play when they meet an eligible young men. They just...wonder.