Weddings in or out of church

[Lamb]

Do you feel that weddings should be done within the church walls or are you okay with them being performed outside of the church building?

 

[tango]

Do you feel that weddings should be done within the church walls or are you okay with them being performed outside of the church building?

I don't think it matters, it's largely up to the couple.

 

[Michael]

My wife & I were wed outdoors in a beautiful Garden setting. Our Pastor performed the ceremony in front of God and 52 friends & family.

 

[NewCreation435]

I don't think it matters. I really would not have minded having our ceremony outdoors

 

[JRT]

Keep in mind that a marriage occurs when two loving people decide to commit to each other. They marry each other. Church or state are really only formal witnesses to this union. The church did not even mandate formal weddings until the eleventh century. Let the couple decide.

 

[Josiah]

I don't think it matters, it's largely up to the couple.

Ditto.

 

[zecryphon_nomdiv]

Do you feel that weddings should be done within the church walls or are you okay with them being performed outside of the church building?

I feel they should be done inside a church. However, when I got married, it was done inside a church that I was not a member of.

 

[Lamb]

I feel they should be done inside a church. However, when I got married, it was done inside a church that I was not a member of.

Same here. I got married in a beautiful Catholic church where there was a mass. If I ever got married again in my lifetime it will be within a church and the liturgical service will be held because I would want everyone to know that God is a presence in the marriage.

 

[hedrick]

To me the Church is the people. Buildings are really useful; I don't want to devalue them. But the key item for both weddings and even normal worship is the congregation, not the building.

 

[vince284]

I guess it's all where you get married. Many countries, Mexico for one, a church wedding (religious) is not legally binding. Only a judge (civil) can marry a couple, my daughter was married in Mexico and it was on the beach. It was beautiful, but it was done by the local magistrate. Therefore, if you are married in a religious wedding (church) in Mexico, it's not legally binding in the USA. I was married in Hawaii, on the island of Kauai, in the Fern Grotto... breathtaking. But since it was in the USA, we were married by a Pentecostal preacher (not my denomination) but that was who was available. So it's just between the couple and God, the rest is fluff.