“It is not good for man to be alone,”
God said, and he should know:
he made man so.”

- from the poem “Companions”


In The First Wedding, Madeleine Mills has collected her poems about the first Husband and Wife from her book Wedding Hymne and Poems, along with their beautiful nature photo illustrations. These poems reflect on how the reason for marriage remains the same today as it was when God first instituted it. This makes a lovely gift for a fiancee, bride, wife, or mother.

In “Adam's World” we see what life was like for the man who had everything ... but love. In “Companions” we see that no other love compares to the love between a Husband and Wife.

“Then Came Eve” shows how even a Gardener's humble life of daily chores becomes more beautiful and meaningful with the love of a Wife.

And in “Love Began in a Garden” we revisit the holy joy of that first wedding, and see it echoed down through the centuries in our own wedding ceremonies today.

(This book is an extract of previously published poems and their photos from Wedding Hymne and Poems.)