Bridegroom Lifts the Bride's Veil at a Wedding

Prompt

Ephesians 5: 'Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it... they two shall be one flesh.' At a simple first-century Christian wedding in Ephesus, the young bridegroom gently lifts the bride's saffron-coloured veil and gazes at her with tender love, while she looks up at him with joy; both large and close in the centre, garlands of flowers and oil lamps around them, family singing psalms and hymns softly behind in warm golden evening light. The groom wears a wrapped head-cloth over his hair. Style: a blend of photo-realism and cinema, like a still from a big-budget film. Bright, rich, saturated, luminous colour, clear daylight or glowing golden light even in dramatic scenes, never murky or muddy, crisp detail, real human faces full of emotion, shallow depth of field, subtle film grain. Simple, uncluttered composition: ONE clear scene from this chapter, with the chapter's main character or characters large, close and central in the upper and middle frame, and a simple background. No montage, no collage, no inset vignettes, no crowd of small figures competing for attention. Historically accurate ancient Near Eastern clothing, architecture and landscape. Keep the bottom quarter of the frame simple and uncluttered (ground, water or sky) so a large chapter number can be set over it. Absolutely no text, no letters, no words, no numbers, no logos, no watermark, no border, no frame.