Believe me, i take no personal offense from those educating me on JW beliefs! I love that you are responding and respect that you hold true to your faith, as I do to mine. I mostly feel bad for Celsete and the extreme amount of criticism she has recieved over the show. As for my wedding it was all i had dreamed about and more!! We had a great day, great weather (cold, but it was november!) and I got to marry the love of my life andf share this great experience with the whole world through the show! The filming focused mainly on the guest brides perspective so all I had to to do ont eh day of my wedding was a pre and post interview with them and just go about my wedding day as usual. The crew follows the guest brides every move so being a guest was harder, plus being asked to critique someone with very different tastes than you and knowing they want the fur to fly was vary hard. I tried to be open and honest, but polite on my reviews of the other weddings. I would have loved this experience wether I won or lost since i got to meet some great gals that i still keep in touch with. as for the planning of the wedding it was all done by the time i agreed to be on the show. I couldn't really change any details, even if i wanted to. We all were finalized in our casting in late Oct and my wedding was nov 24th, so what you saw was what i planned before knowing i was going to be on national tv! I would reccomend this experience to anyone! Thanks again for your feedback and answers!
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Did anyone see "Four Weddings" on TLC 2011/05/06 - JW bride
by Scully inonly caught part of this program during my tea time at work last night.. the premise: 4 brides competing with each other, and hosting the other brides at their wedding, scoring the wedding and reception.
the prize was an all expenses paid island honeymoon.
i didn't particularly care what was on tv, but a couple of my colleagues were watching it, but boy did i ever do a double take when one of the brides, named celeste, would not enter the church for the second and third weddings, based on her beliefs as a jehovah's witness.
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Did anyone see "Four Weddings" on TLC 2011/05/06 - JW bride
by Scully inonly caught part of this program during my tea time at work last night.. the premise: 4 brides competing with each other, and hosting the other brides at their wedding, scoring the wedding and reception.
the prize was an all expenses paid island honeymoon.
i didn't particularly care what was on tv, but a couple of my colleagues were watching it, but boy did i ever do a double take when one of the brides, named celeste, would not enter the church for the second and third weddings, based on her beliefs as a jehovah's witness.
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Thanks for the background, but i don't think it is fair to label my church as "havens of filthy practices and dispicable teachings" since from the few readings done at Celeste's wedding it was almost cut and paste from the readings i got to choose from for my ceremony. Your religion does get a negative light shone on it which is unfair, but perhaps it may be because of the use of such language as quoted above towards a faith that some one holds dear to their heart and believes to be true. We all have a maker and when our time on earth is over we will get judged by that maker. I don't agree with or believe in Scientology or Judiasim, or Islam, but I respect a persons right to practice that faith without insult, and furthermore I would never judge a person based on practice of a different religion. Extremeism of any faith usually leads to dark places so the point I make is Judge Not Lest Ye Be Judged!
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Let He Who is Without Sin Cast the First StoneI am not without sin so I will leave it at that. I do appreciate your openness on the background of this religion. Thank you again for your candor. I will check back often for updates and more information.
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Did anyone see "Four Weddings" on TLC 2011/05/06 - JW bride
by Scully inonly caught part of this program during my tea time at work last night.. the premise: 4 brides competing with each other, and hosting the other brides at their wedding, scoring the wedding and reception.
the prize was an all expenses paid island honeymoon.
i didn't particularly care what was on tv, but a couple of my colleagues were watching it, but boy did i ever do a double take when one of the brides, named celeste, would not enter the church for the second and third weddings, based on her beliefs as a jehovah's witness.
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Hi all! So first i want to say I am not a JW. I am actually one of the brides on the episode you are discussing and wanted to share some insight and pose some questions as I am now thoroughly confused about why Celeste did the things she did for the show.
-I was not offended that Celeste didn't enter my church for her religious beliefs, but after reading some posts I see that she could've come in, but not participate in the christian part. She had told us that she was afraid of judgement from stricter JW viewing the show that since the whole service wouldn't be shown she didn't want to appear as if she was joining in the service.
- I am unclear as to the "celebration' aspect of the religion. I thought it was a no-no to celebrate events such as birthdays, and assumed that a wedding would fall under that category, but her RSVP clearly stated to celebrate with them. Isn't that why we couldn't toast with our champagne to each others wedding?
- The wedding took place at Il Villagio, a catering hall in Northern NJ. I believe she had a JW priest(sorry if that is the wrong term) perform the service, and there were readings that reflected JW references that I had assumed were from the JW bible (again sorry if is refferd to differently)
- 1 aspect i will stand by her on though is she did seem to want to respect the JW religion and had every intention of making your community proud. I am unsure if her husband is "a believer" or not, soi won't venture a guess. I hope this answered a few questions and I hope maybe someone can clarify my misunderstandings of your religion since this is my first experience with it.