Did you get married in a church?

[jenm2878]

We are getting married at the Polynesian resort in a month.

 

[lillygator]

nope - I married Charming on the beach!

 

[krdisneybound]

Have to add:

Just attended "renewal of marriage vows" of my DS and DIL on the beach in Waikiki, Hawaii last week, during sunset. ABSOLUTELY BREATH TAKING.

 

[dirtysouthinit]

Does a wedding chapel in Gatlinburg, TN count as a church

I wish my FIL had just given us the $10,000 he dropped and we would have went this route.

 

[WDWMom]

We got married in a church because I wanted to. I was raised Catholic and love my religion. MIL to be was not excited because, well I don't really know. Dh had no problem. I also wanted to be married before God. I am a very traditional person and I loved my wedding. No big hoopla, but respectable and everything I wanted.

 

[krdisneybound]

I wish my FIL had just given us the $10,000 he dropped and we would have went this route.

Oh My!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[ead79]

We didn’t get married in a church since we were married at the Wedding Pavilion at WDW. However, our religion is very important to both my husband and I, so we had a very religious ceremony there. Our view is that as Christians, Christ lives in our hearts, so we didn’t have to be at a church to have Him be a part of our ceremony. Neither of our families had problems with it.

 

[Blondie]

We had a full Catholic mass wedding.

 

[snoopy]

Yup. At high mass, at the Catholic church where DH and I both grew up and went to grammar school.

 

[cindercopper]

We got married at a local historical landmark with reception following. There were too many religions between families and this kept it simple.

 

[Angel16]

We were married in our church. When I met DH he believed in God, but only in the sense of a higher power or Great Spirit. As we dated he came to understand how important a relationship with Christ was to me. In fact my roommate told him I would never consider anything but friendship unless he started to attend church. Well, he started to go to church, then he accepted Christ, was baptized and a year later we were married in Our church

We had a nice church reception, did all the plans, food and everything ourselves and have had 26 wonderful years together. I married my best friend!

Side note: We were actually married by our minister in his office at the church three months before our church wedding. We were buying a house and back then you couldn't go together to purchase a home unless you were married. My DH did not have enough income to qualify on his own. (We both were rich in spirit and poor in finances, but so happy) So pastor married us, we purchased our home, then kept it a secret and were "married' on our planned date.

 

[ducklite]

DH and I are both Catholic and got married in the Catholic church. My two siblings who are married also had Catholic weddings. Must be something about that Catholic school guilt...

DH and I didn't have a mass at our wedding, my brother and sister both had the whole shebang.

Anne

 

[kpm76]

DH and I are both Catholic and had a Catholic Mass at Providence College (where I graduated from)....it was perfect for us

 

[Stitchfans]

For both of my marriages I was married in a church. As a matter of fact DH and I had our reception in our church's basement. Catered in chicken and beef, and played some tapes for a little dancing. Nothing extravagant, just a nice family, close friends gathering.

When my youngest brother got married my mom (God rest her soul) and my dad banned his wedding. That was such a mess. We are protestants, and SIL is catholic. Both families Irish. Get the drift. Mom was born and raised in Belfast. Came to the states when she was 18. All she asked was that they didn't have a mass since of course SIL insisted the ceremony be in the catholic church. To make a long story short, the entire family except for me banned the wedding. Even my other brother who was suppose to be best man. Mom than in return had nothing to do with me, or my brother for nearly 4 years. That sure was rough not seeing or talking to my parents for so long. It is really awful how something like having different religions can ruin family ties sometimes.


Have more stories to tell along this subject.

 

[mafibisha]

Absolutely. I definitely wouldn't have it any other way.

I pray our children will also be married in a church ceremony, too.

 

[isla bonita]

Yes but only because my husband wanted to, and because I wanted Chinese food at our reception. We all give to get, so I walked down the aisle and we all ate chinese for dinner. The food was great.

 

[scrump]

I wanted to get married at City Hall, but MIL wouldn't have it, so we compromised on an interfaith ceremony in a small private Inn. I didn't feel that a church wedding would have been "me" (not a member of any church), but DH's family is Catholic. So there you go. I like another poster's thoughts on the wedding either being the last thing you do to please your parents, or the first thing you do to please yourself. Looking forward, you will possibly have other battles to fight, so choose wisely!

 

[katedrew94]

We got married in a church but only because we had to (family reasons). Otherwise we would have gone somewhere private and just had family along.

 

[2sweetangels]

I got married in city hall (court) we were gonna have a wedding at a church, but DH's mother started telling us that no kids were invited and only family could come, a whole bunch of crap, so I decided to call off the whole thing and go to the court house it made life alot simpler.

 

[simpilotswife]

We were married at the Catering Hall where we had our function although we did have a reformed rabbi perform the ceremony.