NoRoomForGeorge:
she messed up big time. That's very bad publicity for JWs. The matter of entering a church for a wedding is a conscience matter, its not a concrete doctrine where one can be reproved or DFd over. What she just did was advertise the WT's doctrinal contempt of other Christian denominations.
wasblind:
her decision not to step into a church only show how much she don't know about her own religion
My work-mates and I had a bit of a discussion around that during the commercials. They said how they felt it was very rude to be on a program like that if she was unwilling to participate in all the activities. I explained that she was behaving in an extreme way, because entering the church is not against the religion, but participating in another religion's worship is. They were all surprised at that, and then became annoyed that she publicly misrepresented JW beliefs, and concluded that she was a nasty b!tch trying to make herself look "better" than everyone else.
Them being able to pay for a $45,000 wedding is probabaly a good indication of her family's influence within the congregation. There's different rules when it comes to random nobody JWs, and JWs with infuential families. I mean influential in the sense of material posessions, but also if the family has theocratic heavyweights within the congregation or the circuit.
That was another negative for my co-workers. They felt that she was a big phony from a spiritual perspective and a show-off from a material perspective.
sherah
I bet that JW bride was marrying a 'unbeliever' hence the banquet hall wedding.
I thought that might be the case too. Either that or she is a spoiled brat and wanted the big wedding without the JW vows and their sad excuse for music, and the Elders™ wouldn't let her use the KH for the event. I was waiting to hear "Marriage is God's Arrangement" as her father (?) walked her down the aisle (whoever he was, he didn't look like he was having a very good time). It didn't happen. The wedding was somewhere in NJ, so I was wondering if anyone recognized the venue - and could tell whether it was an Assembly Hall or just a normal banquet hall/convention centre. I imagine with that kind money, an Assembly Hall wedding and reception wouldn't be out of the question - especially if the family had some "influence".
WontLeave
Probably an indoctrinated but inactive or never-baptized born-in. All the baggage, but for absolutely no reason.
Excellent summation. Somehow I think "all the baggage, but for absolutely no reason" should go on a T-shirt!
By the way, I apologize for the lack of "spoiler tags" in the original post.