My fiance and I have some very good friends who have offered to officiate our ceremony. We are honored that they would like to do it, and since we aren't members of a church it seems more fitting to us anyway to have friends officiate rather than a clergy member we don't really know, and more personal than having a JOP. They are ordained already through the Universal Life Church, so the legality thing is taken care of.
My hangup is this. They are a priest and priestess of Celtic Traditional Wicca, and they ceremony they are proposing for us is a traditional Wiccan handfasting. Admittedly, it is a beautiful ceremony and I don't specifically disagree with anything they want to say or disapprove of their religion. I'm just not a Wiccan myself (nor is FI -- we're both somewhere in between agnostic, humanist and disinterested), and almost no one among our family or friends is familiar with paganism or the beliefs that go along with it. In fact, our guests cover the spectrum from Catholic to Mormon, to Jewish, and pretty much everything in between. I am worried that they might be upset attending this kind of wedding ceremony, considering it "evil" or at the very least weird. What do you guys think? How would you feel about attending a Wiccan handfasting?
So far, being a Gray is pretty awesome.
