1. Family Living 120
The Wedding Ritual

2. In Today’s Class… Reminders: Today’s Class Objectives:
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Today’s Class Objectives:
Investigate the history of weddings
Religious Marriages
Christian
Islamic
Hinduism

3. Wedding Rituals All wedding rituals usually have two things in common:
A Ceremony held in public with witnesses, and;
Legal requirements that must be fulfilled.
Public ceremonies were important in preliterate societies.
In the absence of written records, such ceremonies served to fix in the minds of all who witnessed them that the couple were legitimately married.

4. Religious and Marriage Rituals
Up until the tenth century it was not uncommon for marriage to take place by mutual consent.
At first, it consisted only of a benediction by a priest… then it became customary for the newlyweds to attend a church service after the wedding.
By 1215 the church had become the authority of publically marry people.

5. Modern Marriages
Nowadays a wedding may be performed by any person who has the legal qualifications to do so such as a judge or an official, and no religious involvement is necessary unless the couple desires it.
Legal requirements still include a license, a brief ceremony of some sort during which the couple signify their consent before a minimum number of witnesses, and the signing of a marriage document.

6. Marriage and Religions
In three groups you will investigate one of the following wedding rituals from the three religions:
Christianity
Islam
Hinduism
Read through the information in the textbook on pages and as a group decide the most important aspects of marriage in this religion.
Choose one person to come write the vital information on the board.
As a class we will discuss the difference between the three religions.

7. Any questions? What did we learn? Tomorrow’s Class:
Class Discussion, Questions & Survey
Any questions?
What did we learn?
Religious differences with regards to marriage.
Islam vs. Christianity vs. Hinduism
Tomorrow’s Class:
The Five Types of Marriages