For those of you married. Did you have a CIVIL or RELIGIOUS ceremony? Would you do the same all over again?

Contributor: Bignuf Bignuf
We did have a religious wedding service, but at a non-religious venue (a museum of high art). How about YOU? Did you have a religious or civil ceremony? We it a good decision, now that it is "done"?
08/15/2012
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Contributor: mpfm mpfm
We had a religious ceremony in church. It was a very traditional wedding with 300 guests. It was a good choice for us. I wouldn't have wanted anything different. But, if I ever had to do it again (God forbid), I would opt for a very small service with just close family/friends.
08/16/2012
Contributor: Beck Beck
We had a civil wedding that included us, our son, and my sister. We would have liked everyone to come, but everyone kept trying to get us to have a wedding we couldn't afford. We eloped instead of going to the justice of peace. Either way it was going to be the same price and we wanted photos for the day. Every felt we should have went to the justice of the peace and had a party or had an "actual" wedding. We would never change the civil to religious.
08/16/2012
Contributor: - Kira - - Kira -
We had ours in a hotel that had a courtyard especially for weddings and such. It was performed by a Justice of the Peace and we requested that any religious wording come out of whatever it was he said. We wrote our own vows, which did not include religious undertones. Considering neither of us are religious, I would not change it.
08/16/2012
Contributor: SneakersAndPearls SneakersAndPearls
Although we are religious, we did not get to have a religious ceremony. We always intended to get married but ended up having to do it sooner than we expected due to some life/residence/job issues. It was a quick courthouse wedding (thus not religious). I always wanted the big traditional one with dress, cake and all, but life happens.
08/16/2012
Contributor: Jaimes Jaimes
We had a non-religious ceremony on the a steamboat in Savannah. On Halloween. In costume.

We are not religious, but we are actors. We got engaged on that same boat during the bows after a performance of a cool murder mystery riverboat tour. We acted with the man that wrote, directed and produced the show and company, and he was in on the engagement surprise, so we asked him to become ordained so he could marry us, and my husband wrote the "script" for the cermony. I wouldn't have changed a single thing about my wedding day.
08/16/2012
Contributor: Noelle Noelle
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Originally posted by Bignuf
We did have a religious wedding service, but at a non-religious venue (a museum of high art). How about YOU? Did you have a religious or civil ceremony? We it a good decision, now that it is "done"?
We had a civil cememony, with only one witness. My husband was estranged from his family at that time and mine are living out of state. I would definately have a religious ceremony if we ever do over again. Things are great with my hubby's family now. I would like everyone from both our families to be there. My husband wants to renew our vows and maybe someday we will, and do it differently.
08/16/2012
Contributor: Gunsmoke Gunsmoke
We had a religious service at a non-church venue. Later my wife wanted our marriage blessed by the church - I told her I would marry her as many times as she wanted!
08/16/2012
Contributor: hjtee hjtee
We had a civil ceremony in a courthouse. I'm not a religious person, so I would only ever have a civil ceremony. Next time I might choose a prettier location though!
08/16/2012
Contributor: Jaimes Jaimes
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Originally posted by Gunsmoke
We had a religious service at a non-church venue. Later my wife wanted our marriage blessed by the church - I told her I would marry her as many times as she wanted!
Awwww.
08/17/2012
Contributor: HB042 HB042
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Originally posted by Gunsmoke
We had a religious service at a non-church venue. Later my wife wanted our marriage blessed by the church - I told her I would marry her as many times as she wanted!
That's sweet! Mine was a secular ceremony. We were married three days before our ceremony (I wanted a Leap Day wedding anniversary, but had the party the following Saturday) by my husband's best friend who's a minister of the Univeral Life Church, but a very charismatic friend of mine "performed" the public ceremony. It was perfect in every way. Our minister friend bought a priest shirt for himself with the collar, and after we were done we went out drinking to celebrate, him wearing the collar. You should have SEEN the looks we got!
08/17/2012
Contributor: Jalh222 Jalh222
Went to the courthouse, spur of the moment one day thing, I have no regrets on it.
08/17/2012
Contributor: TiffyPixie TiffyPixie
definitely civil ceremony and wouldn't change it.
08/17/2012
Contributor: married with children married with children
we did a civil one, because we did not have money for a big weeding at my church. But I would have loved to do a big religious service.
08/18/2012
Contributor: YvetteJeannine YvetteJeannine
We got married at Sandals in St. Lucia, on the beach It was just us, the Justice Of The Peace, the wedding coodinator, and a couple honeymooning from Great Britain. They were our witnesses and came to the small reception we had. It was wonderful and lovely. Just what I wanted. We swam in the ocean after. When we got home we had a big reception with friends and family. I would do it the same way it a -beat!
08/18/2012
Contributor: G&L G&L
Religious
08/18/2012
Contributor: Deeder Deeder
We had a relatively small religious ceremony, funded on a (literal) shoestring budget. We were both trying to save up as much money as we could at the time (my husband was out of work and I was four and a half months pregnant), and we only had two months to plan it.

Luckily, my husband is really close with the pastor of the church, and (since my hubby was a church member), we were able to book the chapel for free, (we did give the pastor a $50 tip, just for doing us the favor on such short notice). My brother-in-law acted as sound mixer, the youth pastor was our photographer, the rest of the wedding party consisted of my younger sister and my husband's best friend, and we held the reception back at our house.

If given the chance to do it again, the only change I would make would be an actual honeymoon for the two of us. Since we were trying to save money I was only able to take a four-day weekend from work, (which was subsequently ruined when my dad landed in the hospital with bloodclots the next night).
08/21/2012