Monday 19 December 2011

more than most things Love itself......

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 Last Christmas my sister got engaged to her now Husband David Luff, where will christmas take us this year.....

C.S Lewis wrote a book called 'The Four loves' - Affection, Friendship, Eros and Charity. What better place to experience the true meanings of love than at the wedding of Bridget and David Luff. 

'a garden is a good thing but that is not the sort of good it has. It will remain a garden, as distinct from wilderness, only if someone does all these things to it. Its glory is of quite a different kind. The very fact that it needs constant weeding and pruning bears witness to that glory. It teems with life. It grows with colour and smells like heaven and puts forward at every hour of a summer day beauties which man could never have created and could not even, on his own resources have imagined'  C.S Lewis ( 'The Four Loves' -Charity)




 Eros -romance , the art of being 'inlove'...






To wedding was everything you would want in a wedding from awesome venues, amazing food, not a single person escaping the mania of the dance floor, but nothing made this wedding quite like the love that was poured into it by every single person to show their support to show Bridget and David that what they have is really worth celebrating! Just like C.S Lewis says about the garden a man can help the garden but the garden will always create beauty  that a man could never of done on his own....

or can they? Its amazing what man can do when they put their hearts and heads to it, especially these two heads...




Charity is the love that brings forth caring regardless of circumstance. 









 Friendship Love ( Known in Greek as 'Philia') 
'To the ancients , Friendship seemed the happiest and   most fully human of all loves; the crown of life and the school of virtue' C.S Lewis





Affection Love - Lewis said this to be the humblest and most widely diffused of loves.
The Greeks call this type of love storage which is most commonly found between parents and offsprings
My favourite quote being this; ' 

affection almost slinks or seeps through our lives. It lives with hmble un-dress, private things; soft slippers, old clothes, old jokes, the thump of a sleepy dog's tail on the kitchen floor...' C.S Lewis
 





affection has a homely face...
 My boyfriend once told me that our love can not be defined by others, books or theories, it is just ours and it is just what we make it. 













'There is no art without Eros' Max Frisch
Be Inspired and Love fully
LB xx
All photos by Jo Moolenschott