Atheist Brides?

That would be great Celia, but i can't figure out how to send you a PM!

Our ceremony will be nonreligious. I was raised Catholic, but my parents are not interfering in any way in our ceremony decisions. It's a non issue. We've chosen three readings: first one is about friendship, second the significance of the rings and third what marriage means. I wouldn't be opposed to having a religious reading, so long as it was beautiful and meaningful beyond the standard religious connotations.

Hey I consider myself an Atheist. As does my FH but he was raised jewish. We are having a short non-spiritual ceremony outside. We are going to break a glass for his family because they would feel better if we did that. But it's tough trying to find a nice balance.

I'm Catholic but am not a practicer dont go to church and all that dont mean to sound rude or mean but church bores me LOL. We will be having our wedding in a Catholic church though and once we move to STL together next summer I'm gonna make a promise to go to church

Doesn't sound rude or mean to me at all. Church used to bore me to tears as a kid. Don't you worry it's going to bore you just as much after you make that "promise" to go?

Lol yeah I probobly will be bored but I'm gonna give it a shot (: Maybe I'll start to like it lol

Me! So glad that someone finally made a thread like this! So many religious threads that I wasn't sure that there were any other Atheist brides!

My OH is as well. I was raised Protestant and have been out of the church since I was 15.

I plan to have a nonrelgious ceremony. The people who would have a problem with it are those whom I am not very close to. So.. I don't quite mind.

We're in a similar boat. My parents got married in the Catholic church, they converted to Methodist, but don't attend church regularly. His parents are Catholic. FI went to Catholic school his whole life; on the day I met him he told me he "denounced his faith." I didn't want God or religion in the ceremony at all, but I also don't want to have to hear about it every single Thanksgiving for the rest of my life. We're going to have a non-religious specific ceremony. There will be spiritual undertones, but we're not having bible verses. Your officiant probably has a collection of readings to choose from.

FH and I were both raised in very Irish-Catholic families and neither of us practice anymore. We call ourselves "Recovering Catholics" hahaha. We are spiritual but not religious--so we believe in God and give thanks to Him and try to live life according to the Golden Rule, but we do not agree with organized religion/go to church/claim to be religious. Which has caused my Godmother to have many issues and feel like she's failed at life, but that's a story for another time...

Originally we were going to have a friend officiate but several of them fell through so we are now going with a JOP who is coming out to officiate at the park where we booked our ceremony. I'm disappointed that I can't have the customized ceremony I had planned and written, but whatever. I'll probably have someone read the Irish Blessing at the reception and call it good.

We don't do boring. It's insulting to the guests, lol........

Julie, I messaged you.

Almost all of my couples that have one side for whom their Jewish traditions are important do the glass breaking. I really like it, personally, and it's very meaningful to the parents.

Part of me wishes one of us were at least a little Jewish. i love a lot of their wedding traditions!

Just curious why you'd want a traditional Irish blessing when as an atheist, you don't believe in blessing anything?

Someone doesn't have to believe in God to appreciate the intent and beauty of a traditional blessing. Just like if someone offers to pray for me, i am not offended because i know they mean well. I don't believe there's a big man in the sky, that doesn't mean I believe in nothing.

FH and I both fall into the catagory of "spiritual but not religious". We havent been to church since childhood. I am having my grandparents (who are extremely religious) marry us. I want them to do it because I have such an amazing respect for their relationship with eachother and with God. However I am a little concerned my grandmother will go off on a religious tangent. I honestly could not see any one else facilitating my ceremony than them, but now the challenge lies in finding the compramise between the 4 of us.

DH was raised Jewish & I was raised Lutheran -- so we were married by a Notary Public here in Fla.

I find that many of my couples are mixed faiths or not particularly religious, so I've put together a totally non-religious ceremony that is still very romantic. The religious relatives are usually so satisfied that they ask if I have a congregation!

We believe in God, but don't identify with any religion. We are hoping to have everyone hold our rings and bless them

FH and I are both agnostic. We want a secular ceremony outdoors. My very Catholic parents haven't had any opposition since they know we aren't firm believers. At any rate we've been living together and have been fornicating so we're not welcome to marry in the church anyway.

My FH was raised Catholic and no longer attends mass except for Christmas Eve mass with the family. I was raised Baptist and after my first wedding, i quit attending church. We are having a wedding in Hawaii with the "blowing of the conch" and officiant is going to chant an ancient Hawaiian blessing. We are not going to have any "traditional" readings or "vows".