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Greek Orthodox and Lutheran Wedding

edellisedellis member
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I am Greek Orthodox and my FI is Lutheran. Anyway, we want to do an outdoor wedding ceremony, and his Lutheran priest is fine with performing the ceremony outdoors.

However, my father wants a Greek priest there to make some sort of blessing. I was wondering, with all of the rules in the Greek Orthodox religion, do you think a Greek priest would come to an outdoor ceremony that was not held in the Greek church?

I am going to contact him asap, but I was wondering if anyone had a non-traditional wedding w/ a Greek Orthodox priest present. Thanks
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  • tldhtldh member
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    edited December 2011

    FI and I were told that a blessing could be done.  However, there is only one priest at our church so it was more a qustion of whether he would have the time.  He doesn't so we are having a blessing in the church later.

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  • cherrycoke99cherrycoke99
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    edited December 2011
    I am Serbian Orthodox and my FI is half Jewish half Catholic. From what I've been told the orthodox priest will not come to any other venue to perform blessings or ceremony other than inside the church. We are planning to meet with him to discuss more in detail what our options are. Good luck!
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  • jandc426jandc426
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    edited December 2011
    i was actually just at a greek wedding yesterday, and the rev. came to the reception after and did do a blessing there as well.  hope that helps!
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  • sewingdamesewingdame member
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    edited December 2011
    It's very unlikely that you will find a Greek priest willing to be part of your ceremony anywhere outside of the Greek church. The reason why Greek Orthodox people usually don't have outdoor weddings is because it's not allowed to have a wedding outside of the church because there is no altar and the altar plays a very vital role in the marriage ceremony. 

    However, it is tradition to have the rings blessed around the time of engagement. So you could make a sorta big deal out of the ring blessing and invite people to that perhaps?

    Also, it is customary to invite the greek priest to the wedding afterwards. Before you eat, he will lead everyone in prayer. 


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