Posted by:
Breeze
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Date: September 02, 2019 01:21PM
It's so much easier, now, to plan the traveling, and to coordinate everything.
My uncle in California got married before the Oakland temple was built, and he and his wife travelled to SLC to get married, so they could honeymoon in Sun Valley. All the guests didn't want to travel to SLC, so no one was there for the wedding, except the parents, and they all went out to lunch at the Hotel Utah, afterwards. They came back home to California, and had a fancy reception at the country club, and the bride had a painful sunburn, and looked like a lobster.
It seemed like the cult enjoyed being overly important, and putting everyone else out, and passing judgments, and, especially holding members hostage for money. I can't believe the cult would give up this temple-marriage-first rule!
I do think that the rule change will free up a lot of Mormon families, and couples will have lovely (windows and fresh air and beautiful wedding dresses), private (no strange temple-workers) all-inclusive family weddings FIRST. When they go to the temple later, inactive and semi-active Mormons will not feel any pressure to pay tithing, like I did, and like my parents did. Couples can sneak off to the temple, alone. The temple sealing is something secret and embarrassing, and best kept on the down-low, IMO.
The cult is going to lose money and clout on this! Good!