weddings before they were witnesses...

candidlynuts

i have a relative who got married in the 50s , she had an impressive catholic ceremony and had many professional photos made.

i remember when she and her family became witnesses in the 70s and her talking about destroying all of her wedding pics because they were taken in a catholic church and the pictures had pics of crosses and stuff in them..

i wonder if any of you know of incidences like that.. would you destroy your wedding pics just because they were taken in a church years before you became a jw?

fullofdoubtnow

I think that's taking things to extremes, to say the least. I've never heard of anyone else doing that, and there were a few people in our cong who came in after they had been married in a church.

Surely, it's the objects. like crosses etc, that they would find objectionable, not pictures of the objects.

parakeet

***i remember when she and her family became witnesses in the 70s and her talking about destroying all of her wedding pics because they were taken in a catholic church and the pictures had pics of crosses and stuff in them..***
I've never heard of any JWs going to such an extreme, but your post makes me wonder: should JWs who were married prior to becoming witnesses consider the marriage invalid? They took their vows before a "Catholic" god, not Jehovah. As far as the WTS is concerned, the only acceptable evidence of such a marriage would be the marriage license, which does not by itself constitute a marriage bond. Are all these JWs really living in immorality and their children illegitimate? Hmmmmm........

Soledad

YES! Witnesses in my congregation did this on the regular! They would destroy wedding, baptism, confirmation and first communion pictures if the pictures were taken in a church or had any crosses or other religious items in them.

My mother destroyed a picture I had of my two cousins on their communion day. She only did this after an overly zealous elder came over to our home, started flipping through our family albums and pointed to the crucifix that my cousin in the pic was wearing. My mother took out the picture immediately and ripped it up. She didn't even bother to ask me. These are relatives on my father's side of the family, who are not JWs. IMO she had no friggin right to do that and I told her so right in front of the idiot elder! I swear I could have punched that elder right then and there......who do they think they are anyway?? I was just as mad at my mother for being so brainwashed and never having the courage to stand up to those fools!!

serendipity

When I was a kid, I caught my Mom tearing up her wedding pictures. I asked her to stop because we kids needed to have them to show our kids. I told her there were photos of churches in the WT and so it must not be bad to have photos of her in church. She stopped and we have a few pics of their wedding.

Mysterious

I remember a magazine once that talked about smashing wedding rings. That always really upset me as a kid since I hated to see things destroyed. I don't think it was about it being a pagan ceremony though, if fact I don't remember the premise but this is the first time I recalled it.