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It's not explicitly said that the reasons for the public devotional is to dissuade the couple from an embarrassing betrayal of those public vows. To the author,
by reducesuffering 5y ago
It's not explicitly said that the reasons for the public devotional is to dissuade the couple from an embarrassing betrayal of those public vows. To the author, being explicit would mean saying "and we say all this so we'd be more wary of breaking up, given we just told all of you how much we're going to stick by each other."