I recently got engaged. My fiance is a non-practicing Catholic (he was only baptized), and I am a non-practicing Protestant. We would really like to be married in a church though. We both believe in God but don’t really affiliate ourselves with any religion. Does anyone have any suggestions on what church we could get married at? We are in the Nassau County area…Thanks!
I’m sorry, but I really don’t get it. If you don’t want to practice any religion, then why would you want to get married in any church? Seems awfully weird to pretend you belong to a church for your wedding day when you have no intention of ever being a part of the community. I mean, wouldn’t that be like starting your marriage with a lie?
You have two choices. Either find a church you like and join it, start going together as a couple and marry there, then continue to go there and raise your kids in that church, or skip the church part for your wedding. Marry outdoors or in a museum or wherever with one of those ministers who is willing to be hired for a wedding even if s/he knows nothing about the couple at all. Still kind of fakey, but at least you wouldn’t be making people think you were part of a church that you aren’t part of.