My fiancee and I are an interfaith couple. I was raised pagan and he was raised Christian. While he is not particularly religious, his family is. We want a wedding everyone will be comfortable at. Any suggestions on how to accomplish this?
2006-06-30 08:03:33 · 13 answers · asked by Kitten 4 in Family & Relationships ➔ Weddings
I'm pagan and I would just leave out ALL reference to deity's and just have the ceremony focus on the vows the two of you are taking. Have the ceremony in a neutral place, such as a park or by a river. Have a Justice of the peace perform the ceremony. After all this day is about the two of YOU. If your families love and respect you, this should be MORE than good enough for them.
2006-06-30 08:08:19 · answer #1 · answered by everything's eventual 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Hi, My husband was agnostic and I am Wiccan. When we got married, he has since converted to Wicca. We got married by the unitarians. This solved a lot of problems because they are Pagan and Christian friendly. They are an established church with lots of congregations.
The Pastor was very nice and gave a lot of suggestions for a happy pagan yet Christian friendly ceremony. We were handfasted but that is becoming more common with a lot of traditions so that shouldn't be a problem. Feel free to contact me if you want more details on stuff we did and how we kept the rents happy.
My dad is an Epsicopalian deacon and although he would have bee happier if we would have gotten married there, at least we got married by a "real" pastor he said.
2006-06-30 14:59:48 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Guess what your never going to please everyone but as long as you and your fiancee are that's all that matters Boy in my wedding I was trying to please my in laws and my mother at the same time but let me tell you in the end I was really getting sick over the whole matter and I threw up my hands and said latter for this it's my wedding and I wanted to be the way I wanted but keep in mind my husband and myself flip the cost of the wedding ourselves so there was no real objection after that was made clear now being that your pagan perhaps an out door wedding and try to include some of your beliefs and at the end try non-denomination pastor to say some words of wisdom try to incorporate a little bit of both into it but try to do it tastefully. and the best of luck or even better just have a real simple ceremony with out having the mention of any religion perhaps a justice of the peace or a notary to do nuptials it's worth a try that way no one feels left out and everyone is happy.and CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!
2006-06-30 08:50:35 · answer #3 · answered by LIZA P 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My fiance and I are getting a non-denominational ceremony. It's spiritual, and that's it. We're not interfaith (we're both Catholic), but have issues with marrying into the religion, and we'd rather celebrate our wedding with out having to take "classes" on how to be married.
It's up to you, but I think leaving Pagan stuff out of it would be good. I have nothing against your faith(actually I have a lot of Pagan friends), but I know a lot of old-school Christians who are. I don't know if your fiance's family is like that, but you may want to avoid any confrontation or friction on your big day.
Good luck in your decision and congrats!
2006-06-30 09:25:56 · answer #4 · answered by loloshorty9 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that's an incredible question and one that would not lend itself to worry-free solutions. on the superficial point, no. the worry-unfastened thought of Judaism and Christianity is that there is one God. extremely, something that's no longer fabric is God. All spirit comes from God and to contemplate the different source of religious education is to worship yet another god. This, my costly, is a 10 Commandments No No. The prescription to love the Lord with All you coronary heart, concepts and soul supposes that in case you ask for help from the different non secular source, then you definately are no longer employing your total coronary heart, and so on. yet right that's the place it gets complicated. once you look on the Saints and the early Christian holiday journeys that's obvious that they've been incorporations of Pagan holiday journeys. In such a brilliant number of techniques the church has explicitly or implicitly observed and delivered in exterior ideals. you will run into some subject from people who think of they get e mail promptly from God. yet interior the top, your non secular existence is between you and God. reliable luck - the gnome
2016-11-01 00:12:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unless you get married in a Catholic church you aren't going to make very religious Catholic people happy. You could get married outside somewhere which is more in keeping with your religion and then have your marriage blessed at a later date to keep his folks happy. I don't think the government actually acknowledges pagan weddings as being legal so you'll have to do something to make it legal. If you get married in the Catholic church they'll make you tak pre cana classes which are very big waste of time and money. I didn't learn one thing there that I didn't already know. Good Luck.
2006-06-30 17:31:13 · answer #6 · answered by maigen_obx 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Easy, my wife is Catholic, I am atheist. Her family insisted in a Catholic church wedding, so first we got married at the court house. A year later on the same day(may 18)We had a church wedding.
But I had to go to a Catholic counselor to be approved by the church before I could be married in a Catholic ceremony.
Five years later we are still happy & still married.
Good Luck
2006-06-30 08:12:24 · answer #7 · answered by David Y 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try this ceremony, it's pretty generic. I'm not sure where I collected it from, unfortunately. You can change the handbinding part at the end to ring exchanging.
http://www.sacredhearth.com/Spirituality/Ritual/offhands.html
2006-06-30 12:53:11 · answer #8 · answered by kaplah 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Incorporate both religion's traditions into the ceremony and reception.
2006-06-30 16:00:40 · answer #9 · answered by jeanere 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
celebrate all the common beliefs. that will be educative to everyone as well.
2006-06-30 08:14:41 · answer #10 · answered by cocoanutt 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋