Wedding at the Botanical Gardens

Based on the story in the Bible from Matthew 22:1-14. Painted at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens.

ARTIST'S NOTES

One day I was in the Gardens for a walk and chairs had been set out by the lily pool for a wedding. Everything was beautiful. When I came back by the scene I noticed that only the first three rows had been filled. The rest of the fifteen rows were empty.

I thought about the parable Jesus told of the man who invited people to the wedding and when it was time no one came, so he sent his servants out on the highway and asked others to come. If only we had not been too busy to come to the wedding.