[Ginny Z.]

My fiance and I are in the midst of wedding plans, and I disagree with the folks who responded that they have reservations about your including Jewish traditions in your wedding when you and your chosen aren’t particularly religious. I think the most important thing is that your wedding ceremony be meaningful to you, because it’s your wedding, after all. That point aside, if your future husband’s family has been kind and accepting of you, they will probably be comfortable at the wedding, anyway, provided you’re just as kind and accepting of them as they are of you. My fiance and I are pretty much agnostic (I grew up Lutheran and his family is Catholic). We’re planning a sort of Secular Humanist ceremony, maybe borrowing some elements from Zen Buddhism, Korean traditions (my mother is Korean), traditions we invent and maybe even some traditional Christian elements. We are asking both sets of parents to ‘give us away’ and are having some family members take part in the ceremony, doing readings and such. I would also like to have a part in the ceremony where we thank our parents (and each other’s parents) for helping us in our lives thus far, and somehow symbolizing the transition from being part of our birth families to making a new family of our own.

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Name : Ginny Z., Gender : F, Race : Hapa, Religion : Agnostic, Age : 25, City : Madison, State : WI, Country : United States, Occupation : scientist/aspiring sociologist, Education level : 4 Years of College,