Non-Religious Weddings for buddhists, athiests, agnostics and more
Spike would be delighted to perform your non-religious wedding ceremony. Often enough, couples looking for an officiant worry that, come the day of the ceremony, they’ll wind up having to endure some surprise sermon that does not reflect their own views. Really, this happens. How to avoid such an unwanted element? Easy: Pick Spike.
Not everyone wants a religious ceremony. It used to be this limited a couple's options-- ministers often won't perform non-religious weddings so they'd have to go to a judge or hire a justice of the peace. And often judges and JPs use pre-written scripts which couples just have to go along with. So what if you want to have control over your ceremony's content but not include religion? That's where officiants come in.
Spike does not deliver surprise sermons. She does not proselytize. She does not care if you believe in God, or are an atheist, or worship Boston Terriers. Your religion (or choice to not have a religion) is your business.
In case you're wondering, Spike was raised Catholic, ditched that when she went away for college way back in the eighties, then floated around in a wonderful cloud of agnosticism bordering on atheism for twenty years or so. In the 1990s she took up Taekwondo, which led her to meditation and then yoga, which led her to more meditation and Buddhism. She maintains a daily mediation practice, works hard to be mindful every moment (with varying degrees of semi-success to utter-failure from moment-to-moment), and really enjoys doing good deeds for others just for the hell of it.
Spike's domestic partner is a secular Israeli Jew, so she knows a little bit of Hebrew and more than a few Jewish traditions, and once she knitted him a hat with a menorah sticking out of the top. Spike has been to the Holy Land where, in the Old City in Jerusalem, she purchased rosary beads for her mother from a Palestinian.
So, you know, she's got all her bases covered.
One other thing about religion and wedding ceremonies— Some couples want no religion at all but also know there will be hell to pay if they don't throw a little holy bone to their religious family members. Should you find yourself in this position, Spike knows many ways you can both make your wedding what you want it to be and yet still keep the relatives from freaking.