Describe a Catholic Wedding Ceremony and the Ideals Expressed Within It.

Describe a catholic wedding ceremony and the ideals expressed within it?
Many people think that a wedding in a church is important so that the people getting married are under the eyes of God therefore because of its significance a lot of important vows and ideals are expressed.
"The love of man and woman is made holy in the sacrament of marriage, and becomes the mirror of your everlasting love", (Preface of the wedding mass) this quote literally spell's out what the sacrament of marriage is for. Marriage is the final sacrament of a catholic person's life, but marriage can only be conceived in a church if one or both of the people receiving the sacrament of marriage has had in this order a baptism, first communion and is a confirmed catholic, then and only then can a marriage take place in the house of God, marriage is a solemn contract between a man and a woman who share love together. In the Roman Catholic religion marriage is very important this is because of the ideals which it consist of, these are as follows: Marriage is a sacrament this means that it is one of the seven signs by which the love of god is celebrated and shared with others. Marriage is indissoluble this means that it is a life long commitment and can not be broken, this is one of the ideals which the catholic church feel strongly about because it follows the teachings of Christ and the bible in which it clearly states that divorce and adultery is wrong. Therefore this leads me to the next ideal which is; Marriage is exclusive this means that the two partners are both faithful and do not have any sexual relationships with others. This ideal is very important in a marriage because it takes in to account the result of sexual relationships with others that could lead to lying and deceiving a partner, which could hurt, or breakdown a marriage, which is not accepted by the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church also states that marriage is fruitful this refers to the fact that marriage should produce offspring to show the couples love for each other and love for god.
There are many references to marriage and divorce in the bible most of them coincide in the New Testament in such chapters such as Matthew, Mark, John, Corinthians and Ephesians. Most of the passages in