You may manage the fairy-tale wedding of your dreams, but for some interfaith couples the wedding is a tricky moment to be got through on the way to your life together. If you’re planning an interfaith wedding there may be times when getting hitched at the North Pole or somewhere equally remote seems appealing, but if your goal is to maintain harmony with people who matter to you, it’s still worth making the effort to organise it as sensitively as you can. A well-worked out wedding can be a way of soothing hurt feelings and enlisting wider support for your relationship, besides being an opportunity to bring people together.
Even if you don’t quite achieve that fairy-tale wedding, don’t forget that it is only one day in your life together. When the attention dies down it’s the years you spend together that are really going to count. If the wedding has to involve compromises that are difficult for you, it may help to see them as a gift to your partner, a way of helping them make their commitment to you in a way that is really genuine for them. If you have worked through the issues as a couple and understand and respect each other’s position it will be easier to have confidence in each other. Even if other agendas take over for the day and the public process of a wedding, the important thing is to keep it in perspective. It may not always feel like your wedding, but it is certainly your marriage. Wedding FAQs
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