For the “Crafting a Wedding” class I took at Cherry Hill Pagan Seminary, we had to write an interfaith wedding featuring a culture or religious tradition with which we were unfamiliar.

In this ceremony, the groom is Navajo and the bride is a neo-Pagan of Scots-Irish descent. This ceremony is co-officiated by a Pagan priestess and a Navajo elder.

It is important to me that the traditions in the ceremony belong to the heritages of the people getting married, rather than “something I read on the Internet.” If I were asked to perform a ceremony for a couple who had ethnic or spiritual traditions unfamiliar to me, I would collaborate very closely with them and their families, while doing a lot of research on the side into the meanings of the traditions.

Wedding Ceremony for a Navajo and Scots-Irish Pagan