can anyone explain what happens at a traditional mormon wedding?
2007-01-28 12:03:17 · 10 answers · asked by dali333 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
i read a book called Secret Ceremonies and if what this book says is true........that religion is very whacked out!
2007-01-28 12:11:34 · update #1
If you're referring to civil marriages performed by a Justice of the Peace it would be the same similar ceremony you've seen elsewhere. But if you're referring to the wedding sealing done in one of the Lord's temples then you'll have to continue to wonder.
Curiosity does not merit explaining the temple ordinances to anyone. Only those found worthy, having received a temple recommend from a bishop, may learn of the details of any ordinance in the temple.
Such ordinances are not secret, but sacred and are kept inviolate.
2007-01-28 12:13:57 · answer #1 · answered by Guitarpicker 7 · 7⤊ 2⤋
It's actually not much different then any other wedding, other then taking place in the temple. Only those members who are worthy can enter the temple and there can be as many people as you want, essentially. You are all in a pretty room and the couple kneels across from each other at an "alter" (just a soft padded place). They hold hands and the person officiating (like the pastor) give some words of advice, etc and then says a prayer and eventually pronounces the couple husband and wife for "all eternity" as opposed to til' death do you part. They all then get up, hug and kiss, etc. Really, it isn't much different, other then the sealing being for all eternity, because it is done by the priesthood (or authority from God). There is nothing crazy or abnormal.
2007-01-29 04:36:16 · answer #2 · answered by straightup 5 · 5⤊ 2⤋
As others have already stated - a civil Mormon wedding is pretty much the same as every other civil wedding, it can take place anywhere, be officiated by anyone holding that right and is only in force during this life - the marriage ends at death.
In a temple marriage, man and woman are married for time AND all eternity by one holding the authority to do so. We kneel across from one another at an altar and make covenants with each other and with God. If we keep the covenants we make, our marriage will last throughout all eternity.
I was married civilly at 19. I walked down the aile at my church with my dad, said "I do" and listened as my bishop said "til death do you part". How sad! Til death do we part. I knew we have a loving Heavenly Father that has provided a way for us to be eternally married...He has a plan.
5 years later, my husband and I were eternally sealed to one another...what a wonderful blessing! I can tell you, having experienced both a civil and temple wedding, I cannot imagine a person would ever feel "complete" and know they belonged to one another until that beautiful day in that beautiful house of the Lord where they are united man and woman, for all eternity.
2007-01-30 04:58:02 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
Regarding the book you cited, let me say first off that there are a lot of anti-Mormon books out there, and even those with some small basis in reality take things out of context or rely on information that may be out-dated - even as much as 30 years or more. I have attended half a dozen marriages in the temple from 1993 onward, and I would say that they were simple, beautiful, and had an amazing feeling from beginning to end. If you want a movie that has a similar idea, rent "Little Women" - the 1949 version with June Allyson, as there is a beautiful scene when the character Meg gets married that reminds me of a Mormon wedding.
2007-01-28 18:22:59 · answer #4 · answered by Cookie777 6 · 6⤊ 2⤋
I read somewhere that only the couple marrying are allowed to enter the temple with the person officiating the ceremony. The rest of their family and friends have to stay outside. I don't know if this is true or not, because I don't know any Mormons.
2007-01-28 12:10:30 · answer #5 · answered by Becca 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Only married mormons can attend, that's all I know.
I know a girl who converted and married a mormon and her parents couldn't even go.
2007-01-28 12:07:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The same thing happens at a traditional Mormon wedding as at any other wedding. Two people exchange vows and become husband and wife.
What you are referring to in your question is a spritual, or temple "marriage", wherein two people are "sealed" for eternity. The rituals are based on their particular belief. It is believed by many that Joseph Smith borrowed these rituals from Masonry and certain Pagan practises.
By your assessment of this practise, you must also believe that Masonry and Paganism are similarly "whacked out".
2007-01-28 12:23:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 6⤋
I just went to one. They both kneel at an altar and exchange vows to be together. It's just like any other wedding, but instead of the saying"'til death do us part" they say "forever."
2007-01-28 12:12:32 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
well im a mormon, and my mother told me inside the temple is one of the most holiest places she ever been to. But she never told me what they had did inside except for some sacred prayer and ohter things./..
2007-01-28 12:15:00 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Mormonism is a very odd religion with things like :
When a man dies after living as a good Mormon, he goes to his own planet and populates the world ( earth ) with souls from his earthly wife, if he chooses to take her to his planet...
GOD was once a Man on earth and evolved in some Mormon way , to be god, and they believe that they evolve to be gods.......
Some stuff about Joseph Smith sitting at the right hand of "father god' in heaven
Jesus' brother was Lucifer(satan)
The temple rituals are only for special Mormons.....
In the temple they receive a different divine name , that they are not allowed to reveal........
ON AND ON !INTO SPIRITUAL DECEIT...
2007-01-28 12:18:10 · answer #10 · answered by cesare214 6 · 5⤊ 8⤋