{"id":224,"date":"2010-11-10T18:17:41","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T18:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stuffchristianculturelikes\/2010\/11\/201-dry-weddings.html"},"modified":"2010-11-10T18:17:41","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T18:17:41","slug":"201-dry-weddings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stuffchristianculturelikes\/2010\/11\/201-dry-weddings.html","title":{"rendered":"#201 Dry weddings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>The dry wedding is the standard sort of wedding in Christian culture. Sparkling cider is all you get. Dry weddings are mind-boggling to Anglicans, Catholics, mainline denominations and Europeans, but to the evangelicals that&#8217;s just&nbsp;how it is.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span><br \/>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-center\" height=\"300\" alt=\"010709_sixteencandlesweddin.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/105\/import\/dry%20weddings\/010709_sixteencandlesweddin.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Alcohol often&nbsp;isn&#8217;t permitted on church grounds, especially in the Bible belt,&nbsp;so if your reception is in the fellowship hall then it&#8217;s out of the question. But even off-site receptions for those in Christian culture serve no alcohol. The devout avoid being photographed while holding tea or cider lest it be mistaken for an adult beverage.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-center\" height=\"273\" alt=\"SixteenCandles38.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/105\/import\/dry%20weddings\/SixteenCandles38.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/span><br \/>Many who now consider themselves Reformed were raised evangelical&nbsp;and for&nbsp;them drinking is newly permissible. At these weddings there is sure to be a showdown. The evangelical parents of the bride and groom might say they may have wine at the reception if they pay for it themselves, but this holds an unspoken message that there will be a relational price to pay if they defame their Christian reputation by serving wine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dry wedding is the standard sort of wedding in Christian culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[280,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol","category-weddings"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>#201 Dry weddings - Stuff Christian Culture Likes<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stuffchristianculturelikes\/2010\/11\/201-dry-weddings.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"#201 Dry weddings - 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