Wedding Rites: A Complete Guide to Traditional Vows, Music, Ceremonies, Blessings, and Interfaith Services

By Michael P. Foley

Book Overview

Many engaged couples, no matter what their personal style, find themselves turning back to tradition for their wedding ceremony. Is there a way to follow tradition and still carve your own wedding path? Yes, there is -- with this unique book in hand.

Michael Foley presents meaningful wedding traditions so old that they're practically new again. Roman Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, and Jewish wedding traditions fill this comprehensive guidebook, the only one of its kind. From music and flowers to vows and ceremonies to blessings, Foley's Wedding Rites contains a vast assortment of rich traditions very usable in weddings today. Best of all, it's easy to reference and easy to use

This book is an indispensable resource for couples, wedding planners, ministers, and all who love the beauty of tradition.

Wedding Rites offers:
concrete suggestions for each facet of your wedding, from engagement to receptionguidelines for designing your own distinctive wedding programpractical advice for interfaith weddingsforgotten wedding customs -- carecloths, loving cups, coin blessings, and othersand much more

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802848672
• ISBN13: 9780802848673
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Excellent historical treatment

If you're looking for a book that panders to prevailing contemporary sentiments about what a traditional Catholic or Jewish wedding should be, this is not your book, as the parish pastor's review above attests. Rather, this is a thorough and fascinating intelligent treatment of religious cultural traditions for anyone who might be interested, including pastors who might want to offer some guidance to their parishioners about the meaningful traditions of their own faith rather than simply let the tail of popular culture wag the dog. A brilliant treatment!