Book 9 does not treat the Blessing as a private milestone for one couple. It treats it as the fulfillment of a hope God has carried through the whole sorrow of history.
That gives the ceremony an unusual emotional weight. People come not only for their own future, but into a place where divine grief, historical delay, and restored joy are all supposed to meet.
The pastoral implication is sharp: the Blessing loses its meaning when it is taught like a church upgrade instead of God’s long-delayed answer to the brokenness of the family.