since you dont really have something to read from so that ur marraige is binding...what do you do?
You're real funny. You act like christians thought up the whole idea of marriage. Well guess what, sister, your wrong. Marriage has been around far longer than christianity. Why is it so hard for your brain to realize humans were around before christians? Believe it or not, many people like a little thing called free thought, and they write there own vows according to what is important to them, not according to what is important to someone else, and then they have a justice or any number of other people perform their sacred ceremony, as it should be - church, christians and god has nothing to do with it.
An atheist's marriage is just as legal and binding as anyone elses. Why on earth wouldn't it be? Most atheists exchange vows in front of a JP. It would be a civil ceremony, not a religious one.
There's something binding called a contract, and it's a ceremony, not a ritual.
The binding part is the marriage license issued by the state. You can say pretty much any words you want. There are some humanist ceremonies online - see link below for a sample. They're a lot like traditional ceremonies except we don't bring fictional characters into it. Well, not generally. I suppose some might do it in jest. My husband and I wrote our own and everyone (Christian, Jews and atheists) said it was one of the nicest they'd been to.
we have a civil ceremony - no priest, no bible - it's wonderful
