The *vision* takes place in heaven. And it may concern those who have departed in Christ, who are now with Christ in heaven. And being that it is a vision, the vision that follows may be a confirming vision, adding details, without a necessary chronological sequence between them.
In other words, the vision 1st acknowledges the departed saints in heaven. And the next vision shows how these saints are to join their fellows at Christ's 2nd Coming.
Rev 19.6 Then I heard what sounded like a great multitude, like the roar of rushing waters and like loud peals of thunder, shouting:
“Hallelujah!
For our Lord God Almighty reigns.
7 Let us rejoice and be glad
and give him glory!
For the wedding of the Lamb has come,
and his bride has made herself ready....
The wedding has come, but it has not taken place yet. Then the ensuing vision provides more detail as to *when* it will take place, namely at the 2nd Coming...
11 I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and wages war. 12 His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has a name written on him that no one knows but he himself. 13 He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God. 14 The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean.
So, the departed in Christ are in heaven, awaiting the wedding, but it has not taken place yet in the vision. It is being anticipated.
What follows, then, is the 2nd Coming itself, which is the means by which Christ obtains the format in which the wedding takes place. And that wedding could very much take place *on the earth.*
Matt 25.The virgins who were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet.
So, here is indicated that the wedding banquet takes place *after the Return to earth.* It is when the bridegroom comes.
Luke 12.35 “Be dressed ready for service and keep your lamps burning, 36 like servants waiting for their master to return from a wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him.
Here, the indication is that the weddding banquet is perhaps another occasion from which Christ returns? Perhaps it indicates that Christ has already had a wedding banquet of sorts before this final one, to take place on the earth. Otherwise, the virgins would not have been awaiting the coming of the bridegroom.
I'm supposing that Christ himself probably had his own wedding feast of sorts, following his ascension. That is when he obtained his own resurrection body. The wedding he returns to involves our resurrection bodies, so that we can feast with him.
I don't think the idea means to indicate how this final wedding banquet will look. It may take place in a spiritual dimension, for all I know? But it seems to require his return to earth, where we can feast with him with literal earthly food and drink.
Mark 14.24 “This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many,” he said to them. 25 “Truly I tell you, I will not drink again from the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.”
