Atheist Marriage?

[Judas BentHer]

... I've thought about it before, but you can still have a wedding when you're an Atheist, right?

You can join yourself to someone in marriage any way you wish. Not all Christians are married in a church with all the bells and whistles.

I knew someone who married on a cruise ship, as they gave a Birthday surprise to their Fiancee' after they gifted them a ticket to a world cruise. Talk about costly bells and whistles! Because what this woman didn't know was that both her and her lovers family were on board for the event.

Religious values and tradition do not a marriage make. Love, sacrifice, mutual respect, friendship,trust, passion and patience does. So look forward to your special day and bring to bear all the bells and whistles you desire, as a proud atheist in love and ready to commit to someone who loves you as much as you first love yourself. After all, when it comes down to the religious inferences of your mum, even the Bible says that no thing made by mortal hands (like a church) can contain within it the true power and spirit of god. So church bells and whistles is just an expense for a building that does not contain anything but lumber, plumbing and electricity.

It isn't special and ceremony within isn't especially blessed nor is it something to be construed as abandoned and thus less in official capacity when an atheist partakes in a marriage ceremony that is not performed within a church. Unless of course an atheist marries a Theist and concedes to do so.

In truth, as soon as you both sign the marriage license you're officially married. The ceremony that may come after, is what is the bells and whistles that are at option, not requisite. Because every marriage was first and foremost a civil union. Religion or the lack thereof, has nothing to do with it.