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exminion
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Date: November 28, 2019 05:14PM
Nope. No one is allowed to attend a temple wedding ritual, unless they have gone through the temple and "taken out their endowments." Missionaries go through the "endowment" ritual before their mission, and some are as young as 18. Unmarried Mormons who have not been on a mission go through the "endowment" ritual before they are married.
1. The "anointing" ritual is when the person's body is anointed with holy oil, and blessed, and dressed in the Mormon underwear, which must be worn day and night, for the rest of the person's life.
2. Next is the "endowment" ritual, which is longer, and includes a movie. At various points in the movie, the movie is paused, and the officiator instructs the people to dress themselves in the robes and aprons and veils, and then to switch them around, according to the instructions.
3. The "sealing" or wedding ceremony takes place only AFTER the bride and groom have gone through the first two rituals. Years can go by, in between.
I was married in the temple, and my daughter was married in the temple. My daughter's groom's little brothers and sisters were NOT ALLOWED in the temple at all on that day.
My daughter's bridesmaids were NOT ALLOWED, because they had not gone on missions, and were not yet married.
The main reason for this is secrecy. The Mormons don't want anyone to see the weird costumes that people wear in the temple. They think people need to be "prepared", indoctrinated, and ready. LOL, those costumes are crazy! At various points in the rituals, the women have to veil their faces, and those veils are thick, and difficult to breathe through. The headpiece ruins bride's hair. The heavy robe and apron cover and wrinkle the wedding dress. Many brides don't wear their wedding dress at all in the temple. The temple "matrons" will make a bride wear temple-issued sleeves, if the wedding dress's sleeves are too short, and a "dickie" at the neckline, if it's too low.
There's a waiting room, for children and those who are not worthy to enter therein. The waiting room is hot and crowded, with bored kids, and unhappy adults. There's a TV blaring Mormon propaganda and advertising, and various Mormon pamphlets and books lying around. I spend a few weddings in that waiting room, and I ended up taking the little kids for a walk around the temple grounds, and the 100-degree heat was better than waiting in that awful room.
Mormons expect family members and friends to WAIT until the wedding ceremony is over, then everyone poses for photographs on the steps in front of the temple doors (fake doors, just for show), as if the wedding had been a family affair, attended by all.
Kids are bussed in to be "baptized for the dead," which is a ritual that the children can do. I don't know at what age--I think 12--the children are told to do this.
The only time I have seen little children and babies in the temple is when they are sealed to their parents, which is a special ritual for children born before their parents were temple-sealed, for blended families, and for adopted children. These children were not "born in the covenant", so they need a special sealing ceremony.
You know it is all made-up hogwash, don't you. Joseph Smith had his favorite slave and the slave's wife sealed to him in the temple--as his "slaves."