Gay weddings

Planning your special day is exciting. You’re thinking about what will make it unforgettable. Who walks down the aisle is a big choice, especially when considering LGBTQ+ wedding traditions. You can pick an entrance that shows your love and style.

Maybe you dream of a beach wedding in Florida or Georgia. Or maybe a small gathering with friends and family. Your wedding should show your treasure and commitment. Queer wedding customs can add a unique touch to your ceremony.

Recently, same-sex couples hold changed the traditional wedding walk. They include bridesmen and groomsmaids and rejoice their uniqueness. Half of LGBTQ+ couples have one partner walk first. Another third walk together but separately.

Thinking about your loved ones is important. You might want both parents to walk you down. Or a unique entrance that shows your manner and relationship.

Key Takeaways

• You hold the freedom to build a non-traditional wedding processional that reflects your distinct relationship and style.
• 50% of LGBTQ+ couples choose to have one partner stroll down the aisle first, while 33.3% walk down the aisle separately but at the same time.
• 83.3% of couples involve both parents in the process
  

  Tim Cantrell

  Many have been asking lately, “Should a Christian attend a gay wedding?” The biblical answer is extremely nuanced and highly complex: Never, no, not under any circumstances. In the eyes of God and according to His Word, any such pseudo-wedding is an abominable, blasphemous profaning of marriage and a pagan celebration of the sodomy that destroys lives, ruins society, makes a mockery of Christ, and merits eternal punishment (Gen 1–2; 19; Lev 18; Rom 1:18–32; 1 Cor 6:9–10; 1 Tim 1:10; Eph 5:22–33). 

  None can dodge this as merely some “American fundamentalist” issue. Last Sunday in our church in Johannesburg, I asked for a show of hands from those who have been invited to attend an LGBTQ-affirming wedding or event of some kind, and easily half of our congregation raised their hands—some 100+ people. As Carl Trueman said, “You may not be interested in the sexual revolution; but the sexual revolution is very interested in you.”

  As our local association of churches, Sola5, declares in Core Value #5 on Marriage and Sexuality:

  God created mankind male and female, and ordained marriage as a life-long unio

  Deciding Whether to Attend a Same-Sex Wedding

  You’ve asked one of the most divisive and sensitive questions anyone could possibly raise at this particular moment in the history of western culture. But the cultural implications, as important as they are, pale somewhat in comparison to the personal pain and confusion this scenario entails for you and your extended family. We want you to know that our hearts go out to you in the midst of your agony. You have a difficult verdict to make, and one that will require a great deal of desire, wisdom, and discernment. We’d consider it a privilege to offer a scant thoughts as you saunter through that process.

  Before attempting to do this, we’d like to make one thing perfectly clear: Point on the Family cannot advise you to participate this event. Our position on homosexual behavior and same-sex marriage is skillfully known to everyone who is familiar with our ministry. We believe that homosexual unions are contradictory with God’s design for human sexuality as fix forth in the opening pages of the Bible and in the words of Jesus Himself: “From the beginning of creation, God made them male and female. For this cause a man shall

  A glossary for Queer weddings 

  As the author of Equally Wed: The Ultimate Guide to Planning Your LGBTQ+ Wedding and the cofounder of the Equally Wed website, I realize perhaps more than some how important words, names, labels, and boxes are—whether it’s a matter of usage or avoidance. Gender is a complex and fluid continuum. One of the reasons there was a need for a book like Equally Wed was to finally interruption the mold of the heteronormative terms “bride” and “groom” used in wedding books. Even other books that mention same-sex weddings often call two female-identified people getting married two “brides,” even though that term isn’t universally appropriate in the LGBTQ wedding community. By the identical token, not all male-identified people want to be referred to as a “groom.” Social constructs are just that: a worldview built by society. People are complex, no matter what our gender self is or who we fall in love with. More appropriate labels, terms and words to portray people in our group are certain to be as varied as the community itself.

  The goal of Equally Wed has always been to provide a safe, informative and insp
  
  

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