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2 people (male and female) get married in front of their guests by a legal marriage celebrant (That is Jehovah's witness), then they go on their honeymoon. And spend the rest of their married life together. === === The bridesmaids and groomsmen will enter to The Sound of Music, and the bride will enter last, as you would expect. The bride and groom will take their place at the front of the gathering. They will likely take seats at the front so that there can be a few words of counsel from The Bible given to them that will help them in their life together. After the words of encouragement and advice are given, they will stand again to be married. There will be a few subtile differences that you may notice. One is that there likely will not be the announcement to the effect that "if anyone objects to these two being married, let him speak now...." unless the law in your state says that it has to be said. The reason is that any cause for them not to be married would have been settled long before this, and the time for any objections is already passed. These two are grown adults who are making this choice before God, and quite frankly, it's nobody else's business if these two are married. So we don't do that. Another subtile difference is that the wedding ring will take a less prominent role in the wedding. The wedding ring actually comes from pagan origin, and Jehovah's Witnesses are very careful not to mix pagan religion with ours. So, there will not be the whole "with this ring, I thee wed" thing. The minister may say something to effect that the wedding ring is an outward indication that these two are now married." Then he will likely tell them that if they are exchanging rings, they can now do so, to which they will put the rings on each other's fingers without any sort of ceremonial presentation. Another pagan custom that should not be done at a Witness wedding is throwing rice, which originated from the ancient pagan rite of showering the happy couple with grain to wish upon them a 'fruitful' union. Pagans believed that the fertility of the rice seeds would be transferred to the couple as they fell over over them. There likely will not be the throwing of the bouquet or the garter which are also pagan in origin. The tradition of throwing the bride's garter comes from a pagan tradition in which a retiring pagan high priestess held a ceremony where she tossed her witch's garter into a group of eligible young priestesses to select the next high priestess. As traditions evolved, the bouquet replaced the garter as it was more respectable. In more modern times, the tossing of the garter was re-introduced so that the bride and groom both have something to throw. Since the above traditions are pagan in origin, Jehovah's Witnesses generally avoid them. Aside from a few subtile differences, the wedding will pretty much be the same as others you may have attended.

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