Atheist weddings?

How do you go about having a wedding where "god" isn't mentioned? what are those type of services called? Have any of yall had one?
i want to knowwww

 

It's simple. You simply declare your love and commitment to one another. And you are pronounced unified in a legal state marriage by the State.

No mention of any invisible sky daddy is necessary.

 

Why would god have to be mentioned in order for your spouse and you to commit to a lifetime together?

Wow...The christian bubble must be bigger that I thought....people are being raised having no idea if or how a wedding works when you aren't religious?

No offense to you or anything....it's a society problem.

 

yeah i know....well i've never been to one. or a non-religious funeral...where are they held if not at a church? do you just get buried/cremated and get together at someone's house? seramichele, you're right, its pretty sickening that i've never heard/experienced any of this.

 

You can get married anywhere. On the beach, in the woods, in a courthouse, pretty much whatever you can think of. Funerals dont have to be held in churches, there are funeral homes, graveside ceremonies, or you dont have to have a formal funeral at all. And you dont have to be a preacher to marry or bury someone.

 

yeahh i know you don't have to get married in a church. has anyone ever seen the movie love story? is that a special type of wedding or just a humanist wedding? I just looked up humanist weddings...i think i'll have one when I get married...hard to say...but as far as funerals, i never really thought of just simply leaving out the having it at the church part...? silly me :$

 

I think that you'll find you average atheist has a similar wedding to any christian ("sickness and health, blah blah blah", and all the "I do's") just with no god mumbo-jumbo. And if you are used to catholic weddings FAR FAR FAR less mumbo-jumbo

Atheists aren't really religious or spiritual at all, so the only difference you'll likely see in their ceremonies and traditions is a lack of religious tone to it.

 

this has nothing to do with the post but i just thought of it and its annoying...the other day my grandma told me to pray for them (they might be moving...to another county!) I just kinda chuckled when she said that because she knows about my "skepticism" Is it not-that-nice for me to have bene like "yeah well I would if i prayed." i mean, it's my grandmother...we're pretty close so it wouldn't have been too outlandish but it just didnt feel right but i certainly don't like the thought of her imposing christianity on me like that because I know thats what she was doing...also...my dads new fiance always says grace and wants all of us to say it with her, I usually just sit there with my head UP and wait till their done eating simply out of respect since i obviously don't believe in the whole blessing thing, is that the best thing to do? or should i just start eating?

 

My parents and family is religious as well. I usually just humor them because it isn't worth the argument, and avoid religious debate at all costs. What I wont do, however, is attend any more church services. I did my time - three times a week for 16 years plus 10 years of education at a baptist school.

If it were me I would avoid rocking the boat and just wait until they are done praying.

 

yeah same here. i dont want to cause confrontation

 

I think, if I ever get married (which I probably won't for philosophical reasons), I'll have a naked wedding. EVERYBODY must be naked. If you aren't naked, you can't come. It'll put people into total chaos, and it'll be great because people will be sitting in chairs getting illicit boners and trying to hide it.

I wonder if my parents would have the balls/ovaries to do it ... (not that I'd invite them)

 

My wedding was quick and cheap. It was done by a justice of the peace. If a priest had done it and mentioned God, then I really wouldn't have cared. The mere mention of God doesn't send me into childish convulsions of outrage. "How dare he say God? How dare he say God? Blah buh blah buh blah blah blah...how dare he viloate my blah buh blah." I almost want to believe in God and become a conservative Christian politician just to fuck with these cry-baby bitches.

 

Now who is the immature one?

 

It would be hilarious if all the old people in your families showed up. lol...

 

I'd come, if invited. And since I have been to nude beaches and managed to stay flaccid, I am confident I can control Mr. Happy. I have pondered the au naturel betrothal too. There are some amazing wilderness locations I have been which would be ideal for such a ceremony.
I will even accept being called immature if I go through with it. Maturity is for dead people.

I must tell you, though, Hikaru, if you meet the right one, you're 'philosophical reasons' will be gone like a bride's pyjamas. I never considered getting married until I was 39, and then it was a no-brainer, no question in my mind. I hope you get to enjoy the same thing. It is so far above 'reason' that there is no point even comparing.

 

Like I said, I probably won't, for the same reason as I probably will never meet someone I could call a soulmate.

But hey, whatever. I'm not concerned about saying I do or I do not at this point in my life.

And I'm not concerned about controlling my hormones there either. If I get a hard-on from looking at the person I'd be marrying, or someone else, it wouldn't matter. Everyone else would be too distracted to care, and it's fitting that I should have a boner on my wedding day anyway, lmao. Otherwise, what kind of marriage would that be? Probably a sexless one.

 

I don't believe in weddings. They have become too commercial and expensive. Weddings typically cost anywhere from $15,000 to $40,000 and half of them don't last beyond a few years. All of that money -- years and years of hard work -- is then wasted. Not to mention, if you love someone else and want to spend the rest of your life with that person (a crazy idea if you ask me), there should be no need to spend so much money to declare your love and commitment officially. It should be a matter of you and the other person feeling a connection and facing life together without needing any official sanction from anyone, and not even from family.

Ideally I would just elope in Las Vegas or have a strange wedding in a foreign country. What happens after that happens. The conventional life is not for me.

 

No,no,no,no,no,no,no... She makes a good point. Marraige was only a GODly annointance, otherwise we would do what that the animals do. Just sleep arouond. Or do what I do, just stay close to people I can stay close to.
Not saying I dont believe in GOD, you know All service to our CREATOR.

 

I don't know. Winona Ryder?

 

Many animals mate for life, such as wolves, and many bird species. In the event their mate dies, sometimes they will move on and enter another monogamous partnership, and sometimes they won't. People are one of the animals that seems to have trouble staying faithful. Not that that is a bad thing. Some cultures in the Pacific were very open about sexuality before contact, and saw no taboos in having sex with more than one other person, even if they were in a relationship. Once STD's and sailors with 'urges' showed up, that practice died a quick death.