Worth it for a laugh.
Worth it for a laugh.
Sorry, super-catholic in-laws! I totally lied about how religious I was straight to the priest's face so I wouldn't embarrass anyone by having him refuse to marry me to your daughter. The grandkids don't go to church! The boy never even had the magic spell cast on him. You know, the one with the holy water material component.
Luckily, there's been a "don't talk about religion" truce in the family for almost a decade.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2014/06/13/pew_report_on_political_polarization_americans_will_accept_a_variety_of.html
Sorry, super-catholic in-laws! I totally lied about how religious I was straight to the priest's face so I wouldn't embarrass anyone by having him refuse to marry me to your daughter. The grandkids don't go to church! The boy never even had the magic spell cast on him. You know, the one with the holy water material component.
Luckily, there's been a "don't talk about religion" truce in the family for almost a decade.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2014/06/13/pew_report_on_political_polarization_americans_will_accept_a_variety_of.html
Hah! Joke's on them! I didn't want to marry those crazy Americans anyway!
ReplyDeleteI just cannot abide their in-your-face brand of religiouslessness.
ReplyDeleteMy ex-wife's family is Catholic. We did the pre-cana thing so we could get married in their church, but I made no bones about the fact that I was a non-believer.
ReplyDeleteThe priest, who was otherwise very nice, basically tried to convert me no less than 6 times before and during the ceremony. Right before he started the communion ceremony, he told me that he would give me the wafer if I "accepted Christ into my heart."
I politely declined.
I played Presbyterian.
ReplyDeleteBut during the ceremony the priest gave us a present to open, right there while we're staring at the guests. I open it and it's a giant friggin' brass crucifix, complete with Jesus.
My groomsmen could barely hold themselves together.
I think the priest that married us had friends at the Vatican. We got a big headshot of JP II that he had personally signed with a blessing on our marriage.
ReplyDeleteMarried in Vegas. 10 minute ceremony. 5 hour reception, in banquet hall downstairs from chapel. Open bar.
ReplyDeleteIt was nearly universally praised by the guests as the best wedding ever.
matt greenfelder Similar! Ceremony was under 7 minutes, in Santa Cruz, California, about a 5 hour reception, and god and its relatives were not invited.
ReplyDeleteI don't know if it was the best wedding ever, but it was my personal favorite.... ;)