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The couple are expected to choose from five versions of the wedding ceremony, ranging from the Traditional to the Double Ring.

2006-11-15 14:54:02 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music Celebrities

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If Tom Cruise ever gets around to marrying Katie Holmes, the Scientology wedding ceremony will likely be one of those listed in The Background, Ministry, Ceremonies & Sermons of the Scientology Religion, a $200 hard-bound volume published by the Church of Scientology for use by its ministers. (The leatherbound commemorative edition is priced at an unbelievable $2500.) The book contains five versions of the wedding ceremony: Traditional, Informal, Single Ring, Double Ring, and Concise Double Ring. Two of these are reproduced below, for comparison.
Some interesting points:

The Traditional ceremony uses painfully stilted language -- a really bad attempt at free verse.

The groom is always referred to in the Traditional ceremony as a "man", while the bride is referred to in several places as a "girl". Note the brilliant observation that "girls need clothes and food and tender happiness and frills ... perhaps a cat."

Neither ceremony offers much in the way of spiritual content, and there is no mention of any higher power.

The big spiritual advice offered to the newlyweds in the Double Ring ceremony is, basically, "never go to bed angry". Wow! That's deep!

Scientologists believe they are immortal spirits, and the Double Ring makes reference to the circle being an "emblem of permanency", representing "time and space -- which are without ending". The implication of this circle imagery is that the two people are to be joined together forever. But a few lines earlier the proposed bond is more tentative: "your one joint desire in present time is that the love you have created shall remain a reality throughout your future years." Does that mean future years in this lifetime?

The Traditional ceremony is more blunt: it ends with an acknowledgment that the marriage is over when the participants die. Although Scientologists believe in reincarnation, one's marital obligations are apparently only intended for the current lifetime. After that the individuals are free agents again.

2006-11-16 09:44:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

It doesn't matter because theirs is a false religion. Tom and Katie are both compatible. Tom looks like matured, haggard and worn out therefore looking like an ugly old man thus the title "dirty old man" really fits him and Katie Holmes looks like a harlot in her overall appearance. He he he he he.. what a match! They're a perfect match. My question is... why do Tom left Nicole Kidman for Katie? Maybe it just that Tom doesnt deserve such a beautiful and ideal woman as Nicole.... he he he

2006-11-15 15:08:47 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

This is the only referense I could find.
http://www.bonafidescientology.org/Chapter/03/page12.htm
I looks like there is a short version and a long version depending on the degree of formality. I have only seen the short version. I would like to see how long one goes. I guess we will find out next week :-)

2006-11-16 00:44:18 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

I'm guessing that they might go with the double ring version. I had no idea they had different versions to pick from.

2006-11-15 14:57:52 · answer #4 · answered by Marenight 7 · 0 0

The one where they get married on a space ship and the minister is L. Ron Hubbard's corpse propped up on a stick?

2006-11-15 14:58:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

"The bride and groom wore formals designed by Giorgio Armani and exchanged classic Scientology vows, that are actually not in assessment to classic Judeo-Christian vows, different than with references to pans, combs and cats."

2016-10-04 00:37:51 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

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