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One of the clearest indicators to me that times are changing was attending my first humanist wedding. I’d never heard of such a thing before and assumed that people who didn’t want to do the God thing went to a Registry Office. Indeed in England and Wales a humanist wedding is not legal and attendance at the Registry Office is still required. But here in Scotland a humanist celebrant can legally carry out a wedding so yesterday was a proper wedding. Without any kind of formal liturgy the couple can have as unusual a wedding as they desire or as solemn as any funeral. They called it a celebration of love in front of family and friends and all the elements of any good wedding were there, the beautful bride, the tears, the over-running reception, the drink… Yet for me there was something missing. By taking God completely out of the equation it was empty, it took something that God ordained Himself and sucked all the mystical magic out of the event. How can one have a wedding without God at the centre? To me you can’t as yesterday showed. So for me it was sad, but good on them for not being hypocritical and going for a church wedding they don’t believe in. Times are changing. Oh yes, did I mention that the whole day took place in a church? No sense of irony there then!