Perky, have you ever been to a wedding?...a real wedding where there is joy in the air, flowers, a Dad walking his daughter down the aisle, music during the service and for dancing at the reception, scripture readings, talk of love, etc. during the wedding ceremony. In your post you said you loved going to weddings and I believe you meant only Mormon weddings. YOU need to get out more. That's all I am saying. YOU need to see what a real wedding is. Now that is something to enjoy.

My good friend had to sit outside while her daughter married in the SLC temple yesterday. She missed having all those things for her daughter's wedding. And I am sure she was most likely treated badly by most Mormons -to be ignored is being treated badly. That is how I was treated by Mormons when my daughter married civilly.None of them would talk to me. But YOU enjoy weddings.

I am not Perky but a post will at least get this back to the top of the line.
To you question, you are right on. Reading the Bible one finds the Lord celebrating in Cana. Weddings are for everyone, children included. They are fun, joyous occasions. But temple weddings? Neither fun nor joyous. The are part of the controlling power of TSCC. They are not scriptural. They are alien to Christ. TSCC has two classes of weddings and denigrates what is, in fact, the better one.

rhgc, that is right. But in reality they don't even count the civil wedding if it is first done that way. Within 14 months of my daughter's conversion and them paying tithing properly she was in the Temple as required. So glad she had the civil wedding first as a nonmormon. It was outside at a golf course. The Mormons in attendance did not even talk to me. Most did not sit for the ceremony outside. They waited indoors where the lovely reception was going to be. They looked out the windows. I expected a couple to tell me "Your daughter looks lovely", OR "I hope they have a wonderful life together". Nada. I was shocked when no Mormon said a word to me. Thank goodness a bit over half in attendance were not Mormon.

Yep. It explains why so many end in divorce - no recognition even that they are married. Recently, we went to a wedding in the chapel and the bishop sneered when he said for "time only". Very few of the guests were church members. My wife and I were among the very few. And I shouldn't be counted as LDS.