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Quaker wedding

Index Quaker wedding

Quaker weddings are the traditional ceremony of marriage within the Religious Society of Friends. [1]

24 relations: Britain Yearly Meeting, Christian views on marriage, Church of England, Clearness committee, Common-law marriage, England and Wales, Friends meeting house, George Fox, Homosexuality and Quakerism, Ketubah, Margaret Fell, Marriage Act, Marriage Act 1753, Marriage Act 1949, Marriage certificate, Marriage in Islam, Meeting for worship, Monthly meeting, Nonconformist, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, Quakers, Self-uniting marriage, Wedding, Welsh language.

Britain Yearly Meeting

The Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain, also known as the Britain Yearly Meeting (and, until 1995, the London Yearly Meeting), is a Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in England, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.

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Christian views on marriage

Marriage is the legally or formally recognized intimate and complementing union of two people as spousal partners in a personal relationship (historically and in most jurisdictions specifically a union between a man and a woman).

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Church of England

The Church of England (C of E) is the state church of England.

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Clearness committee

Within the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), the clearness committee represents a process for discernment.

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Common-law marriage

Common-law marriage, also known as sui iuris marriage, informal marriage, marriage by habit and repute, or marriage in fact, is a legal framework in a limited number of jurisdictions where a couple is legally considered married, without that couple having formally registered their relation as a civil or religious marriage.

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England and Wales

England and Wales is a legal jurisdiction covering England and Wales, two of the four countries of the United Kingdom.

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Friends meeting house

A Friends meeting house is a meeting house of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), where meeting for worship is usually held.

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George Fox

George Fox (July 1624 – 13 January 1691) was an English Dissenter and a founder of the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers or Friends.

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Homosexuality and Quakerism

The views of Quakers around the world towards homosexuality encompass a range from complete celebration and the practice of same-sex marriage, to the view that homosexuality is sinfully deviant and contrary to God's intentions for sexual expression.

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Ketubah

A ketubah (pl. ketubot) is a special type of Jewish prenuptial agreement.

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Margaret Fell

Margaret Fell or Margaret Fox (1614 – 23 April 1702) was a founder of the Religious Society of Friends.

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Marriage Act

Marriage Act may refer to a number of pieces of legislation.

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Marriage Act 1753

The Marriage Act 1753, full title "An Act for the Better Preventing of Clandestine Marriage", popularly known as Lord Hardwicke's Marriage Act (citation 26 Geo. II. c. 33), was the first statutory legislation in England and Wales to require a formal ceremony of marriage.

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Marriage Act 1949

The Marriage Act 1949 (12, 13 & 14 Geo 6 c 76) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom regulating marriages in England and Wales.

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Marriage certificate

A marriage certificate (sometimes: marriage lines) is an official statement that two people are married.

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Marriage in Islam

In Islam, marriage is a legal contract between a man and a woman.

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Meeting for worship

A meeting for worship is a practice of the Religious Society of Friends (or "Quakers") in many ways comparable to a church service.

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Monthly meeting

Monthly Meetings are, traditionally, the basic unit of administration in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).

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Nonconformist

In English church history, a nonconformist was a Protestant who did not "conform" to the governance and usages of the established Church of England.

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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, or simply Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, or PYM, is the central organizing body for Quaker meetings in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, area.

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Quakers

Quakers (or Friends) are members of a historically Christian group of religious movements formally known as the Religious Society of Friends or Friends Church.

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Self-uniting marriage

A self-uniting marriage is one in which the couple are married without the presence of a third-party officiant.

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Wedding

A wedding is a ceremony where two people are united in marriage.

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Welsh language

Welsh (Cymraeg or y Gymraeg) is a member of the Brittonic branch of the Celtic languages.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaker_wedding

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