Is anyone else having a nontraditional or interfaith ceremony? I am Jewish and my FI is atheist. He has agreed to get married by a rabbi and have a modified ceremony but does not want to reference G-d in english (he is okay with the references in Hebrew). We are working hard on putting together a ceremony that works for both of us and for the rabbi. There is only one reconstructionist rabbi in the whole state of CT so that is who we are currently working with but the rabbi is pushing for the wording to be more religious than he is comfortable with. I am just stressed over trying to please everyone. I want the traditional Jewish aspects because I grew up learning prayers and would like them to be spoken at my wedding and I identify myself as Jewish. FI was raised Unitarian and as an adult became atheist. I am very comfortable honoring my FI's wishes but when we only have one rabbi to choose from I don't know how to make it work. I knew this would all be hard work but I just wish I knew someone else dealing with any of this.
Everyone is working on their programs and I am dying to get ours done and sent to VP for printing since we only have 56 (OMG!!) days left but we don't even have our ceremony set so I can't even start our programs!
So if anyone else is going the nontraditional or interfaith route I would love to hear your story, it would really make me feel better. Ok... freakout over. (mostly!)
We welcomed our girls on 11.7.12 @ 40w0d!
Emerson Lily 6 lbs 13 oz & Ellis Willow 6 lbs 9 oz