Should JWS honeymoon? (page 2)

Matty

I have also been to witness receptions where there has been a proper disco with DJ, and I have also been to some where there was no dancing at all. Have you noticed that someone is always "stumbled" about something, and leaves in a huff? At the end of the day you can rarely please everyone at these kind of dos! Me? I'm always in the kitchen, doing the washing up!

Angharad

When we married we requested no rice or confetti..... but we did cut the cake, have bridesmaid and page boy, I wore white dress, go on honeymoon, have wedding rings and most other usual things.

Edited to add we also had a DJ and disco but had to request that he turn off Village people as a load of sad people were about to walk out..... personally I love village people songs and was a bit put-out that it had to go off

Edited by - angharad on 21 August 2002 10:55:55

The_Bad_Seed

Did any of you actually deviate, and NOT get married in a KH? I always thought weddings at the kingdumb hall were spectaculary tacky, and vowed to myself that I would never find myself sitting in front of the podium avec wife and el-dur.

TresHappy

When I married in 1998, I had been out of the JW's for a while. I knew that if I was going to have a wedding with my JW parents present, I would have to bend to their wishes, (no this, no that). So I did the rebellious thing and got married to my fellow on a beach in Jamaica. Wonderful and romantic. When we got back, we had a reception at home a few weeks later. My JW parents did come to that, and it was lovely!

Guest 77

I don't complain when my honey 'moons' me.

Guest 77

blacksheep

I've been out for over 15 years and attended quite a few JW weddings before that (not one of them memorable). I recall DEFINATELY throwing rice/confetti or anything really, being banned. Big no-no. Doesn't take much imagination to figure out that it symbolizes somthing relating to sex...which of course, just won't do. But, it is rather hypocritcal, because everything, as many mentioned, about the wedding, from the dress, to the cake, to the rings, is ultimately of pagan origin. Like with anything in our modern society, JW's seem to pick and choose just WHICH pagan customs are okay and which arent.

No honeymoon? Not a change. Good grief...good little witnesses staying celebate for so long IMO absolutely REVEL in the honeymoon...lol, more than anyone else. Finally, they can have SEX!!! It's actually OKAY.....and even expected. No, I don't see them getting rid of that one. Pagan or no.

brwneyedgrl1

blacksheep, maybe i am showing how naive (sp?) i am and/or my stupidity, but i cant figure out the connection between throwing rice/confetti at weddings and sex. please explain it to this young one

apple829

We were always told that the word "honeymoon" was the problem....pagan something or other. But the couple in question could go away if they called it "their Wedding Trip."

Weird, huh?

Sherryl

Angharad

brwneyedgrl1

I think but not sure (someone please correct me if I'm wrong!) that the throwing of rice is something to do with fertility???

Matty

Actually I was a incorrect and unspecific when I talked about the rice/confetti thing, I bunched the two items together.

I have never actually been to a Jehovah's Witness wedding where rice has been thrown but I certainly have been to many where confetti has been thrown.

Yes I've heard about the rice being a symbol of fertility, throwing it at them will make them breed quicker; and also the cutting of the cake being... well, lets just say the knife is the symbol of the groom and the cake is the symbol of the beautiful virginial bride!

Sheesh!

Edited by - matty on 21 August 2002 14:34:25

Should JWS honeymoon?

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