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But, what would the Egyptians called Marriage and what was involved in that ceremony? I'm curious to know because I'm thinking I might have the ceremony myself one day and I'd like to know everything about it. biggrin

I have no idea what they might have called it. But there wasnt really much of a wedding from what i've been told. It was more just picking up all the bride's belongings and moving them into her new home.

But of course once your told that it kinda gets you down (or at least did to us) and a lot of people go for a little more modern Egyptian practices. I personally like the night of henna practice for the bride (Bride and a bunch of her friends get together to henna -a temporary tattoo...ish- her hands and feet) ^.^ I think there's something else like... you get belly dancers and everyone parades as slowly as possible to the chapel (i mean like hours long), but i didnt really look into that one much haha

Oh! Late idea! You can always look around for Egyptian themed places ^.^

We had our reception in an Egypt themed restraunt and it was awesome! Shoulda had a pyramid shaped cake... but my mom woulda killed me -.- not to mention my mother in law... ::sigh::

Yeah, for the Egyptians marriage was a social contract between the people getting married and their families- and really, I think that's how it ought to be. Unless I'm marrying a god, why bring religion into it? As much of a religious person as I am, I think that's been a source of a lot of ugliness in family life.

Sometimes human partnerships work out, sometimes they don't- through nobody's fault, that's just the nature of the thing. I've seen many loving couples tie the knot and move in together, only to find out that they weren't compatible after all. If it's a social contract that's no big deal- it's not working out, you can part amiably and move on in life. But if it's become a religious contract, you're stuck with the choice of either breaking a union which has been consecrated as Divine... or preserving that union by forcing yourselves to stay together, offering up a life of resentment and misery to the gods. confused

In addition, the incorporation of religion into what is at core a non-religious, social contract has created situations such as we have here in the states- where perfectly loving, legitimate adults can't get married because it's against somebody's religion to accept that particular partnership.

Personally, I wish we could go back to the way it used to be. There were still protections in place for married couples- inheritance, dowries, legal procedings, and all that. But without all the added baggage of invoking a god's name over who you plan to live with. It's not easy to find that in today's world, though- when I got married I tried to have an entirely civil wedding, we just went down to the courthouse to sign papers and pay the fee. But even there the judge decided that he had to invoke marriage vows in God's name, and we ended up getting a Baptist wedding even though neither one of us was Christian and we'd been specifically trying to avoid that sort of thing. sweatdrop

A feast is a fine way to start off a new family, however! The Egyptian-themed restaurant reception sounds like a great idea!

They did enjoy to get drunk alot, and have sex ... whether that would be good for a wedding I'm not too sure, lol.

Well, I talked it out with my partner, and since he doesn't know much about this religion anyways and the fact that he finds his religious beliefs more along the lines of Christianity, he'd rather not include religion at all.

That's fine with me. I just want to have a ceremony, but if there's not religious aspect to it... is a ceremony possible? I'll have to think about that too.

I refuse to do it that way though. Especially since the three people involved (Me, boyfriend and Bestfriend[minister]) all have different Gods they worship... it would be a hot mess. razz