Can a Wiccan Marry an Atheist?
Posted: 01/31/2014 3:44 pm
Rev. Laurie Sue Brockway
I was recently contacted by a bride who was getting married in a castle-turned-wedding-venue in New York State. She explained that although she and her groom were raised Catholic, neither followed the faith they were born into. She, in fact, was a practicing Wiccan and he was a staunch Atheist.
It was important to the bride to have a spiritual blessing upon their union. It was important to the groom to not have it be too over the top. And, as you can imagine, it was important to both sets of religious Roman Catholic parents not to have a ceremony that would make any of their 250 guests run screaming from the room from witnessing an unfamiliar pagan ritual or a flat out exclusion of God.
Oy.
Some people might say, "Why are these people are getting married in the first place?" But I see this situation over and over in my interfaith wedding ministry: A wonderful couple falls in love. They come from different backgrounds or cultures, or they may just have different beliefs. Whether they are Wiccan and Atheist, Buddhist and Jewish, Christian and Hindu, or not interested in religion at all, they have to find a way to merge their lives in a meaningful ceremony that is also respectful to their families.
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