The temperature has stayed in the high twenties by day and the low twenties at night, and it's taking a while to get acclimatised, so we've not been very active this past few days, apart from writing next Sunday's sermon early. On Wednesday I celebrated the mid-week BCP Holy Communion service at St Andrew's for half a dozen people. The coffee morning social for church regulars afterwards hasn't happened in recent weeks as many regulars and volunteers are away.
Late afternoon Linda and I drove to Marbella for a wedding blessing preparation session with a couple whose ceremony will take place next month in the garden of a large hotel close to the promenade and sea shore. It's surrounded by high hedges, has several swimming pools and plenty of space to entertain a hundred and eighty guests outside. They'd thought through the arrangements in detail, so inserting the service into the event posed no problems. Hopefully it won't be quite as hot by then. I'm told there'll also be a wedding blessing on a beach some time soon as well, but the details and venue have yet to be finalised.
I did a wedding blessing on the roof top of a restaurant above Nerja a couple of years ago and that worked out fine, but figuring out how to make an intimate open air service work well in the absence of a shelter or enclosure to serve as a gathering point promises to be something of a challenge.
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