17 Facts About Civil wedding

Special Civil wedding garments are often worn, and the ceremony is sometimes followed by a Civil wedding reception.

For example, in the United Methodist Church, the Service of Christian Marriage includes the elements found in a typical Sunday service, such as hymns, prayers, and readings from the Bible, as well as other elements unique to a Civil wedding, including taking marriage vows and an optional exchange of Civil wedding rings, as well as a special benediction for the couple.

In some Western countries, a separate and secular civil wedding ceremony is required for recognition by the state, while in other Western countries, couples must merely obtain a marriage license from a local government authority and can be married by Christian or other clergy authorized by law to do so.

In more observant communities, the couple will celebrate for seven more days, called the Sheva Brachot during which the seven Civil wedding blessings are recited at every large gathering during this time.

In Islam a Civil wedding is viewed as a legal contract particularly in Islamic jurisprudences.

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Humanist Civil wedding ceremonies are carried out in a variety of countries like the US, Canada and recently Brazil, having legal status in only a few of these countries.

White Civil wedding is a term for a traditional formal or semi-formal Western Civil wedding.

Many civil wedding ceremonies take place in local town or city halls or courthouses in judges' chambers.

Not to be confused with an elopement, a destination Civil wedding is one in which a Civil wedding is hosted, often in a vacation-like setting, at a location to which most of the invited guests must travel and often stay for several days.

Highland or Scottish Civil wedding has the groom, with some or all of the groom's men wear a kilt.

Collective or mass Civil wedding is a single ceremony where numerous couples are married simultaneously.

MicroCivil wedding is defined by the small number of friends and family members present.

The highlight of the festival of the peasant Civil wedding is the Civil wedding and feast of the onecht of the bride and groom.

Shotgun Civil wedding is a Civil wedding in which the groom is reluctant to marry the bride is strongly encouraged to do so to avoid family, social or legal repercussions.

Weekend Civil wedding is a Civil wedding in which couples and their guests celebrate over the course of an entire weekend.

Wedding ceremony participants referred to as the Civil wedding party, are the people that participate directly in the Civil wedding ceremony itself.

Couples who spent less than US$10,000 on all Civil wedding-related expenses, and who had a relatively large number of guests in attendance, were the least likely to divorce.