communion at the wedding?

amongthelilies25

i know we talked about this before... but i am thinking i want to do communion at my wedding. 

how is it done? what did you guys do? 

DramaGeek

Just for you guys or for everyone?

kcadonau

we had communion at our wedding. you can either do it for just you guys or for everyone, but check with your church on that as some have more specifics on that (my church, where we got married, is presbyterian, and at presbyterian weddings they serve communion to everyone, but since it wasn't a strictly presbyterian wedding-my uncle was our officiant, we didn't have to serve it to everyone).

we just had the bread and juice on the table next to the unity candle and did one after the other.

amongthelilies25

ya, i want to do it just him and i. not a lot of our family/friends are religious... but its kinda important to me. i just have never seen it at a wedding... so i am clueless. 

DramaGeek

We did just us because the logistics of serving communion to more than 300 people, some of whom partake and some of whom don't, was too rididuculous to figure out without it taking forever.

We did ours during the unity candle time.  On the altar behind our pastor was the table our church usually uses for communion.  My cousin and her husband sang I Will Be Here by Steven Curtis Chapman. When the song started, our pastor moved to the side.  We waited a line or two, then walked to the table and did the candle.  After the candle was lit, we moved to the stage right corner of the table and signed our marriage certificate.  Once we were done with that, we moved to the stage left corner of the table and served each other communion.  When we were done we stood and held hands while my cousin and her husband finished the song.

It was really nice because doing all 3 things helped take up the time of the song, instead of the normal unity candle song where they light the candle and then stand there forever.

AshNoel8

My friend did it just her and him. It was really nice and made the ceremony not as long as it would have been if everyone had taken it. I think it's a good idea! 

OliviaD7712

We are going to do just FI and myself. We are having someone sing and we will pray together (this is give us time just to the three of us, God FI and myself) then partake in communion just us. Which ever way you choose it will be beautiful.

aggiebug

We did the whole congregation.  I was very VERY hesitant at first, but it pretty much came down to serving everyone or serving no one.  (and we had 250ish guests) It was a lot easier that expected, and since H and I were the ones that served communion we got to see everyone that came to the wedding and it was very special. 

If you want to just have you and FI take communion talk to the pastor about how he would work it into the ceremony.  It shouldn't be hard, it would kind of be like lighting a unity candle as far as time goes.

fam6

We would like to have just he and I receive communion, but we are going to be outside, so the ligistics may be complicated...we will see if we do it or not, I really hope we can work it out!

amongthelilies25

thats awesome, ladies. thank you sooo much!