Thanks for sharing the story. That is wonderful that they wanted the church in their wedding.
I visited the USSR in 1985. We kept seeing couples on their wedding day standing by memorials that consisted of guns, tanks, and other symbols of war. That was the tradition, register the marriage with the local Communist office, and then have wedding pictures taken by the symbols of the Great Defeat of the Fascist Hordes from the West. We all thought that was pretty sad. Church weddings weren’t allowed at that time.
“I visited the USSR in 1985. We kept seeing couples on their wedding day standing by memorials that consisted of guns, tanks, and other symbols of war. That was the tradition, register the marriage with the local Communist office, and then have wedding pictures taken by the symbols of the Great Defeat of the Fascist Hordes from the West.”
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What you have described is exactly what very many non-Christian Chinese couples do.