HallGreenVillan Posted March 2, 2023 Share Posted March 2, 2023 I'm getting married in 10 weeks time in a church, :-0 needing recommendations for wedding hymns for non particularly religious people please Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted March 2, 2023 Share Posted March 2, 2023 "from the tiny ant to the elephant..." I'm only half joking, you should pick out one that everyone remembers from school, will raise some smiles "we are climbing, jesus' ladder ladder" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted March 2, 2023 Administrator Share Posted March 2, 2023 12 minutes ago, HallGreenVillan said: I'm getting married in 10 weeks time in a church, :-0 needing recommendations for wedding hymns for non particularly religious people please Anything by the Beatles. They are bigger than Jesus. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted March 2, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted March 2, 2023 17 minutes ago, HallGreenVillan said: I'm getting married in 10 weeks time in a church, :-0 needing recommendations for wedding hymns for non particularly religious people please We went with Morning Has Broken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted March 2, 2023 Share Posted March 2, 2023 Come Out Ye Black n Tans always sets a mood. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFC_Hitz Posted March 2, 2023 Share Posted March 2, 2023 Bind us together Lord, bind together Lord! With cords that cannot be brooo ooo ken. Sung 'kin loud or your nan goes home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodders Posted March 2, 2023 Share Posted March 2, 2023 On the pissa m'lord, on the piss... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dAVe80 Posted March 2, 2023 Share Posted March 2, 2023 Rocky, Rocky Road. Pure Jesus banger, in a Calypso style. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted March 2, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted March 2, 2023 Only non religious Hymn I know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TB Posted March 2, 2023 Share Posted March 2, 2023 1 hour ago, HallGreenVillan said: I'm getting married in 10 weeks time in a church, :-0 needing recommendations for wedding hymns for non particularly religious people please I don't really see the problem here... I'm not a believer in sky fairies, but if I have to attend a ceremony in a church I'll happily sing along to any hymn as long as I know the melody and the words. it's just words, after all. They don't have to have a special spiritual meaning to me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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mjmooney Posted March 3, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted March 3, 2023 (edited) 10 hours ago, TB said: I don't really see the problem here... I'm not a believer in sky fairies, but if I have to attend a ceremony in a church I'll happily sing along to any hymn as long as I know the melody and the words. it's just words, after all. They don't have to have a special spiritual meaning to me. Yeah, same. Some of them have great tunes. Our school assembly always required the singing of one hymn or another, invariably mumbled in a desultory half-arsed way. One day when I was in the 6th form, my mates and I decided to liven things up by giving it some welly for a change. Can't remember what hymn it was now, but we gave it the full male voice choir treatment, really belted it out. Welsh miners would have been proud of us. As this wall of sound roared from the back of the hall, the younger kids at the front were turning their heads in amazement, and teachers on the stage were looking at each other with raised eyebrows. After the assembly, the headmaster stormed down to our classroom and demanded our form master give us a dressing down for 'showing disrespect'. To his credit, he refused, and said he thought it sounded great and made a refreshing change. Next day it was back to the lip-synching and mumbling. Edited March 3, 2023 by mjmooney Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarethRDR Posted March 3, 2023 Share Posted March 3, 2023 Do you have to have a wedding hymn if you don't fancy it? Sure all the church-based weddings I've attended I've not been expected to sing at (maybe they were warned in advance, come to think of it). Plus, even if I was theistically-minded, the last thing I'd want to hear at my own wedding would have been my family and friends strangling cats en masse. Congratulations, by the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Mr_Dogg Posted March 3, 2023 Share Posted March 3, 2023 15 hours ago, HallGreenVillan said: I'm getting married in 10 weeks time in a church, :-0 needing recommendations for wedding hymns for non particularly religious people please So why are non religious people getting married in a church? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted March 3, 2023 Moderator Share Posted March 3, 2023 14 hours ago, TB said: I don't really see the problem here... I'm not a believer in sky fairies, but if I have to attend a ceremony in a church I'll happily sing along to any hymn as long as I know the melody and the words. it's just words, after all. They don't have to have a special spiritual meaning to me. I really don't sing in a church I've been invited to. Out of sympathy for my audience, hell they don't want to hear that 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted March 3, 2023 Moderator Share Posted March 3, 2023 16 hours ago, limpid said: Anything by the Beatles. They are bigger than Jesus. Jesus save me now 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick76 Posted March 3, 2023 Share Posted March 3, 2023 1 hour ago, Mr_Dogg said: So why are non religious people getting married in a church? I’m not married but I’d get married in a church despite being an atheist if my soon to be wife wanted to. Church’s are spectacular in beauty, a great space for a large crowd to gather and watch the ceremony and there are very few other spaces in the uk that can match them for an event like that. If I went back to Australia, there are better places to go to get married. Does it matter that it’s generally a religious venue? Not really, what people choose themselves to believe in is up to them….it’s just like watching a gig/concert at Villa Park, just because it’s a football stadium doesn’t mean it only has to be used to watch football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talldarkandransome Posted March 3, 2023 Share Posted March 3, 2023 17 hours ago, HallGreenVillan said: I'm getting married in 10 weeks time in a church, :-0 needing recommendations for wedding hymns for non particularly religious people please Just say no By zammo and the kids from Grange Hill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted March 3, 2023 Share Posted March 3, 2023 1 hour ago, Mr_Dogg said: So why are non religious people getting married in a church? Most men would get married in a shed. The big church wedding is usually driven by the bride wanting a fairytale big day, something that has probably been a childhood dream fo them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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