I didn’t link last time. Oops. I get this from Witches Weekly.

If you were to plan your own Wedding or Funeral ceremony, would you create two separate ceremonies for pagan and non-pagan folk, or would you just plan a ceremony around your beliefs. How would you feel if any non-pagan friends or family did not wish to attend such a ceremony?

I would not plan or create two separate ceremonies for pagan and non-pagan folk - nor would I really plan a ceremony “around my beliefs”. I am the only one I know personally with my beliefs, and while not in the broom closet, per se, these beliefs are rather quite personal and I certainly don’t go shouting it into the streets.

Often, anyway.

But I would also not plan it around Christian beliefs specifically. I’d probably go fairly neutral in the religious arena, but also touched with some purely… pagan things. Like terminology: handfasting. That, to me, is romantic as hell. Things involving the seasons, the passage of time, the turning of the wheel. Perhaps mention of deity, or the spirit, but nothing particularly /pagan/.

On funerals in particular: I believe that funerals are for the living, not the dead, and frankly, if it makes them feel better to have a priest saying comforting things to them, so be it. But I do have some personal wishes on the actual burial, none of which are particularly religious - or at least, not particularly pagan. I’d like to be either cremated or buried ‘naturally’ just wrapped in linen cloth and covered up. Or at least in a plain wood box. Why people spend thousands of dollars on a beautiful, satin lined box they’re just going to bury for all eternity is beyond my comprehension. And I don’t want to be embalmed. Period. I would prefer not to have the whole Christian ceremony stuff and all, but hey, I’ll be dead and beyond caring by then.

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