Well A) They aren’t wedded yet…they’re talking about their wedding and B) The bride doesn’t want a part of her wedding where her family is left on the sideline as mere observers while she participates in it with his family…basically driving a stake down the middle of the church I also/can’t understand how people don’t get this. This was the reason that my wife and I didn’t have communion at our wedding.
Agreed, the OP didn’t want a full mass wedding where her fiance did…she brought a perfectly fine compromise to the table and he refuses to budge (when he agreed to it a few months ago.)
And her priest said that he’s good with the compromise (sounds like it might even of been his idea) and this isn’t the first time I’ve heard of this compromise being done in 'murica.
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