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Weddings should be like baptisms

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D. C. Toedt III

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I’ve been planting seeds with my teen-aged daughter: Only half-jokingly, I announce that weddings should be done at a normal Sunday church service, just like baptisms, with a modest brunch afterwards for family and friends.

My wife smiles, ever so slightly. My daughter chuckles and says, sure, Dad (no doubt wondering what other fresh idiocies are about to issue from the old fossil).

Apparently I’m not alone in this sentiment, however: see the discussion thread on point at TitusOneNine. One commenter says that doing weddings that way was the intent of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer. Another commenter says that her wedding was done that way; it had the added advantage, she says, that her “heathen friends” got to see the church not just as a hired hall, but “as a worshipping body of believers.”

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  1. V Knutsen Avatar
    V Knutsen

    I went to such an inservice wedding. Was very nice.
    Regarding your teen daughter’s plans for her weddings…well, a friend from somewhere in the south told me weddings were simple church affairs with cake & punch in church hall afterwards.
    But up here (my area anyway – the Chicago area) – weddings were big events…thrown by our recent immigrant ancestors. Even those with little money usually did something fancy for the daughter.
    PS I didn’t argue with my friend – the size of the ceremony is a custom…but I did point out that it might be the only time he has nonbelieving (i.e. pagan in some cases) family and friends as a captive audience. He and his Chicago area bride had a moderately big Church wedding (huge by his family standards) which was quite lovely and was a gracious way to tell his loved ones about God.

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