The structure of this story on the page can make it appear, at first, as if something odd is going on in terms of its point of view, but once we've gotten to grips with what is actually happening in the story, we can see that it's fairly straightforward. The story is written in third person limited point of view, with all thoughts and feelings being those of the protagonist, Roselily. However, Roselily's thoughts are framed, or cued, by the words of the minister conducting her wedding ceremony. These words are written in italics in the story; the minister giving the service is not narrating the story, or contributing a point of view to it. He is merely speaking, and Walker has chosen to mark his spoken words obliquely, using italics, rather than with traditional quotation marks and speech tags.

We can understand, then, that we are hearing these words from the limited third person perspective of Roselily. First we hear what she hears, and then we receive an insight into what these particular words caused her to think about. Roselily is intermittently listening to what is being said, and then drifting away into her mind to think about other things, so we are experiencing the service in a very direct, stream-of-consciousness way, alongside her.