How to Perform a Pagan Wedding

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[@heathersstories6765]

Did a handfasting for my own wedding. When we renewed our vows 2 black birds (crows or ravens I couldn't tell) flew around. I felt so blessed in that moment. Getting someone that was comfortable performing a handfasting was surprisingly difficult. That's why I got ordained myself, so people of different religions and sexualities can have the happy day they deserve.

[@MisstressMourtisha]

Cheers 💕

[@ryanbrown1484]

Illuminati said to bring all your illegal drugs and place them on the counter of your local police station for the freemason witch orgy there tonight do it right now Satans orders Avelina said right away.

[@josephking8387]

im currently searching for someone and being that im in kentucky um steiggling finding someone that is willing and understanding of the wedding itself

[@thekimikinz]

@@josephking8387 I'm getting married next year, and living in the bible belt (North Carolina) is making it nearly impossible to find someone to officiate our handfasting. It's super difficult and disheartening, and I can't help but feel like we won't be able to find someone at all. 😔

[@RollingSoloRPG]

The video hasn't even started and I already gave it a like! Me and mine are planning a pagan wedding so this is perfect for us. Thank you Jacob!

[@NinjaStephy]

My pagan wedding was done with handfasting with silk chords of blue and gold, calling to the 4 directions and we made it Lord of the Rings themed to avoid any drama with Christian family and friends aaaand it was in a cave (where we had worked and met) so it was free lol. It was so much fun and perfect and amazing!! I wish I could do it every year lol.

[@marvinthemaniac7698]

I'm hesitant to invite my parents to my own wedding for the same reason.

[@jaxoncarlson3984]

I am becoming ordained for my mother's wedding, and for my own, I plan for a fully Norse Pagan wedding. Thank you for the information. I would gladly ask upon any Norse pagan to come once I set a date

[@thenighttimesystem4497]

thankyou so much for this! i always want to get married but because of the christian ideas i never thought about it. and as a witch and pagan this was so nice to know i can have a wedding that actually is for me

[@deijix]

My fiancé is Norse pagan and I don’t really follow any particular religion bc of religious trauma from childhood so I knew I didn’t want a traditional Christian wedding but didn’t know where to start to plan one that isn’t. And my fiancé said that he really doesn’t know much about weddings and to just plan what would make me happy but I want him to be happy too so I want a majority of the wedding to be Norse pagan so he will feel like it’s his wedding just as much as mine. So thank you for giving me a great starting point to plan a pagan wedding ceremony and surprise my fiancé! It’s also so funny when I tell people my budget for the wedding is $1,000 and they’re like “oh is that the budget for the dress?” And then they look at me like I’m crazy when I say no it’s for the whole wedding! but really spending thousands and thousands on a single day and just feeding into consumerism? In this economy? No thank you!

[@marvinthemaniac7698]

If I decide to have a Wiccan wedding, it will take place outdoors at night by a bonfire with handfasting, a maypole dance, and fireworks.

[@michaelharkonnen8126]

Blessed Be!

[@slorpindaddydagothur]

Hey brother love the content as always. Handfasting is an awesome ceremony. I've done several handfasting ceremonies for my fellow pagans and it's always a beautiful ceremony. Usually short, sweet, and among a small group of friends and family. My favorite part is like you have experience sometimes you get to hike out and have the ceremony in nature and it's always better that way in my personal opinion. Great stuff can't wait to see more!

[@drschonify]

Thanks for the information. I am cleaning up the draft of a ceremony I will be performing for two friends later this year and found this helpful.

[@TheWisdomOfOdin]

Yeah it can get as complicated or stay as simple as you'd like!

[@thorashebear7604]

Love this! I wish I was able to get Hubs on board for handfasting at our wedding, maybe in the future we can do that and renew our vows 😁

[@zakattack9000]

That’s amazing. Iv been with my girlfriend for 5 years and I absolutely would love to have a pagan wedding when we get married. The hand fasting thing is somthing we talked about and want to do. I need to do some more research but that’s pretty much how I thought it went. Give an offering to the gods tie the hands and give your vows. Amazing and I wanna do it lol

[@georgimmanuelnagel6603]

Germany is the country where somebody will tell you that tripods in the park are not allowed, but you can sneak into the country illegally and you can live there forever on welfare handouts.

[@Noahthayugen]

🤣🤣🤣

[@josephbrown363]

Always wanted a pagan wedding, after 38 years of marriage I could be looking at our 38th wedding which is also close to our 60th birthdays. So these videos could be an insight.

[@lesleybrady3948]

I love this! I’m being handfasted for free myself on Tuesday and I am so excited 🎉 xxxx

[@alstaubin3699]

I just received a call today to Officiate a pagan wedding, i said i haven't test but willing to learn and do one. I am a wedding Officiant in NH, have performed several handfasting ceremonies and a midevil wedding.

[@ravnagerson1132]

Still one of the best weddings I've ever attended 🙂

[@charlesmcdougall3697]

It can be said that heathens love the deepest… their love knows no fear.

[@941selena]

My husband and I had a handfasting almost 2 years ago. It was beautiful

[@Buglife25-xn2gd]

I'm engaged to a pagan priest and we will be doing a handfasting ceremony for our wedding on 3/20/24. We are actually looking for a pagan minister to perform it.

[@bubbam3565]

This is a great video and gives me a concept of the handfasting because my best friend and his fiance want me to perform the hand fasting for them

[@Abaddon7274]

Congrats on 60k keep the great work up👍

[@ladygrey7425]

Love this, Jacob! I can definitely see that Martin was inspired a lot by heathenry when writing Northern culture in "A Song of Ice and Fire", especially in regards to the handfast ceremony.

[@NJ.Magpie]

Not getting married anytime soon, but I would love to have a pagan wedding in order to reconnect with my Celtic heritage!

[@cillianranngarsson2762]

You are doing great work Jacob brother the gods will be very proud of you my friend I have a lot of respect for you man all hail lord Odin and all hail lord Thor and all hail the allfather of Valhalla skal brothers and sisters

[@sweetpeamcgee8807]

Look how beautiful that place is!

[@TheWisdomOfOdin]

Nymphenburg Palace is one of the most beautiful places I have ever been!

[@seanhartnett79]

Yeah. I will likely do this. On some sort of mountain.

[@zina6581]

Very awesome! Thank you so much for sharing..

[@JenniferWilliams-bb7hi]

My husband and i are norse pagan and we'd love to renew our vows as norse pagans

[@ms.melody6653]

I'm so excited to do our handfasting ceremony at me and my partner's wedding in a year. We couldn't make it as pagan as we would like due to our families but we are incorporating that aspect.

[@SirFrederick]

At the latest handfasting I went to the Parents, grandparents, brothers/sisters on each side of the family had a colored cord that they wove together and they used that to tie the knot (yep that's where the saying comes from). it was pretty nifty.

[@shanezahra7822]

Being In Love And Getting Married Should Definitely Be Free Shouldn't Have To Pay Thousands Of Dollars To Be In Love And Get Married Definitely Love This Video ❤️ The Gods And Goddess Definitely Would Love What Your Doing 😎👍🙏

[@corymoon2439]

Just wanted to say I officiated a wedding of two friends of mine yesterday, and this was my format. They're not even pagan but they wanted a pagan wedding. Half of the people attending were pagan though.

[@EliecerFalcon]

Good work man. Thanks for the info.

[@Otto.so23]

Where’s this place u at??? So beautiful

[@Oaknomadex]

I've just asked my Mrs to marry me, now I'm doing my research 😁

[@lbrigh6]

I'm Brazilian American polytheist, ceremonial magick and chaos magick practitioner and descendant of shamans in south America and Anglo saxon pagans. My boyfriend is atheist but respects my magickal beliefs and we are thinking about doing a pagan ceremony and another one in a Gnostic church. We will get married in the US and in France as well.

[@The_Ginngersapp40]

Ironic how I'm trying to watch all your videos from beginning to what you're making now and when I decide to see what a pagan wedding looks like and your video is the very first one on the list

[@TheWisdomOfOdin]

Haha I have talked about a lot of subjects over the years 😂

[@santito_part_ii]

could you do a video explaining the significance of marriage and what rules the Norse followed once they were married? I've seen some sources say that they only married one person for life and there were strict rules about divorce. But I've seen a lot of modern people saying polyamory is pagan and the Vikings would let their friends sleep with their wives. Just doesn't sound right to me. People assume because Christians are against certain things that means Pagans were for it.

[@TheWisdomOfOdin]

Hmmm I don't even know where to start looking for those answers. I too have heard both accounts. I would assume the former of them having one partner comes from Germania as I stated in the video. And then the polyamory could be just slander from the christians. I will have to check the Gragas Laws to see what Icelandic laws were in place for marriage, however it is still a christian account. Perhaps a saga exists I haven't read with more details on marriage laws

[@lakotadaily9491]

I would like you to do my wedding please

[@spmoran4703]

This is how my Guardian Angel wishes he and I marry . But it has to have much Celtic culture included. Because I am Irish.

[@peachbunn33]

My partner and I are pagan but our families are Christian. My patron Deity is Cernunnos and my partner’s is Loki and we’re wanting to have a handfasting and invite them (tho I’m not sure Apollo would be happy about me not inviting him so I’m sure I’ll have to include him somehow 😅). We are unable to legally get married due to the both of us being on disability and if we legally marry our individual incomes ($914 per month, $1,828 together) get put together and we are deducted approx $300 (we are also on food stamps and have 2 children and we live in the US). Now my question is, can we still do a handfasting ceremony if we do not get a marriage license?

[@antoineriwalski4074]

great!!!

[@mallikarjunareddy6122]

It's beautiful

[@vacaspen4002]

Christian wedding is one of the spiritual ownership in loss of identity where is we're looking at pagan traditions or a partnership between two autonomous beings

[@jeffreyrodrigoecheverria2613]

Can you debate Jay Dyer?

[@loopoo4766]

Looks like there are a lot of overweight pagans. Is there no rules about overindulgence? I am asking out of curiosity not malace. I am interested in paganism, but there are a few things that have put me off from becoming a pagan. I have yet to hear they have any rules for good or bad and would be interested in watching a video on such

[@TheWisdomOfOdin]

Ah yes, we should start checking peoples weight before we allow them to come to religious events? In the havamal yes it mentions not to eat too much, but we also are not christians and believe in sin. The havamal is not a hard rule set to follow the faith. Naturally its guidelines to live a fuller life. To not allow someone to join an event for being over weight comes from the idea that this is a "viking" religion full of six-packed viking bros. It is not, we are looking to be more like the common every day people of those times not their warriors.

[@loopoo4766]

@@TheWisdomOfOdin lol I wasn't suggesting you should not allow people who are overweight. You missed my point. I was simply trying to ask if paganism believes in self improvement? A religion without being able to take constructive criticism, well that wouldn't seem very intelligent to me. I was asking because I know very little of the religion and haven't found many videos really telling you what they believe. I meant overindulgence as whole.

[@olive4naito]

@@loopoo4766 Not sure if such rules would serve a practical purpose considering the number of overweight Christians in the churches I've attended throughout life. Every religion mentions gluttony is a sin but it doesn't result in health improvement. Holistic health sciences is probably what you're thinking of. But you'll have to keep up to date on new research findings rather than read from outdated holy books.

[@DuckWild23]

A gay norse handfasting ceremony? I stopped watching after I seen that. Really dude came on now..

[@DocStrange0123]

Wrote the "tough guy" while sitting at home on his couch...😂

[@DuckWild23]

@@DocStrange0123 na wrote right after I left the mma and bjj gym.

[@DocStrange0123]

@@DuckWild23 ...and saving Lois Lane, again, you forgot to mention that part.. 😂

[@DuckWild23]

Good one.

[@daniellewene7913]

Oh no... A snowflake triggered by two gay people minding their own business. The world is soooo cruel to you and your straightness. 🙄

[@dianesibortius4739]

Blessed be sis 🙏🏻🌒🌑🌘

[@martasilva2647]

Not gonna lie; I'm shocked this video came out just now. I'm planning to propose to my girlfriend tonight, and I had been worried about where to start in terms of doing a pagan wedding for us....now I'll be able to at least have a starting point UPDATE: I AM NOW AN ENGAGED WOMAN!!!

[@haleighmars]

good luck!!!!

[@deadbodybaby1]

Good luck !

[@joeysonofander7479]

Good luck! 👍

[@MrBrico-dg2ls]

Congrats!

[@angelvegas6332]

Congratulations! May the Gods and Spirits watch over you both!

[@vivianscircle]

We were talking about weddings the other day and I said 'i want to just exchange vows in a mountain so Odin can watch over me. " The universe is listening sometimes. 😃😃😃

[@antoineriwalski4074]

the footage at the end of the video is really powerfull. a real pleasure for the eyes! Hail the gods and all beeings that have blessed this wedding. may it make both of these people bloom. Skal!

[@Not_Tony_Stark]

I'm glad my bf is so chill about my beliefs. "As long as it doesnt require demons or ghosts I'm fine - at least give me a heads up " he added the second half when I bit my lip to prevent myself from rambling about different pagan and theology perspectives of demons and spirits. Anywho, on the handfasting part, I'm planning to do something with that whenever I get married as well as the swapping if swords lol. I wont be able to make one myself cause that's not my forte but I'm plannin on getting one made to give my future husband.

[@conradtamati8062]

Based. You should convert him and marry him

[@Not_Tony_Stark]

@@conradtamati8062 lol, nah. Since he can respect my beliefs, I'll respect that he doesn't believe. We've discussed handfasting and swords and he LOVED the sword idea. Currently just dating though so no wedding in the near future. Perhaps in like five years from now? I can hope. lol.

[@arieswood3917]

Love the video! We too had a hand fasting lately. It was done at the Beltane gathering in NC. It was such an awesome experience and just perfect.

[@TheWisdomOfOdin]

Congratulations! And glad you were able to attend that gathering!

[@happymonk4206]

I went to my first pagan wedding last year. I was more familiar with Christian weddings. I like the pagan wedding better.

[@shayrose8397]

Every Norse Pagan wedding/handfasting I've ever seen, at some point it starts thundering and lightning (and sometimes even raining) and if that's not a sign that the gods approve I don't know what is.

[@IrishPagan99]

Am a Irish pagan myself but am marrying a Christian woman 😅, am trying to find away that I can still get married in the eyes of Norse n old Irish gods but my Christian fiancée wants be married in her god eyes. Is there anyway that this is possible because I've been trying to research but can't find anything 😅 please help

[@rosannarivero2863]

You are very entertaining and your energy is very welcoming and positive. Kudos for your videos!

[@AnimalWarrior1]

Great video! Please what was the song playing at the end?

[@SC-eu6td]

This took place in Kentucky 😍😍😍

[@lakotadaily9491]

I liven fortscott kansas

[@john2014]

This is great! Is this ritual a part of the FONT ritual book?

[@TheWisdomOfOdin]

Yes 👍🏻

[@JackSardonic]

Dysgenics

[@Budismo7917]

Interesting so the handfasting ritual its what we know as the ancient ceremony for the wedding, it is what the human mind still remember.

[@seanhartnett79]

I mean I am a Celtic pagan who worships the Morrigan.

[@NS66]

I'm actually ordained , and this is my complete nature Niche🖤🧿 hit me up for all your wedding needs. I'll work with the absolute lowest budget possible. It's about the connection of 2 souls while having whatever # of their human experience they happen to be on..

[@yashyashyashy]

Sri Lankan weddings mimic this ceremony- calling the four directions and deities and using a string to tie the two pinky fingers - with blessed water poured on the fingers - a lot more triticale included - so interesting to see the link here

[@boandjo1224]

October 13th this year me and my wife are goin to do a pagan wedding and this has helped us out thank you for what yal do

[@noahhecker6672]

How exiting! I’ve always been interested in wedding ceremonies. Good stuff!

[@Reini_le_Renard]

It was a short ceremony... but enough to feel the power and the emotions! SKAL!

[@lindyvandenbosch9539]

Ceremony part starts at 6:00

[@quezcatol]

Here in Sweden in the early 1900 historians and culture investigators went around to the rural countryside to document the past and so they asked old people born in the 1800 how they celebrated christmas (JUL). ANd so they got told stories about goats in haye in the living room and someone from the sky coming down leaving gifts outside their door if you had lived a good life, BUT the secret was that they pretended to be thor and leave gifts at their door and then knock at the door and run away at dec 24 it makes you wonder how long this had been done - because it was already happening in the early 1800 - BUT my point is: thats how you often find out the real truths: asking people on the countryside in the old countries- finding out nuggets of truths. More so than books. Heck in one town they found out that people used to curse or pray to Freja during wild weathers AND even associate her with lightning. Which shows that Icelandic "viking stories" arnt put in stones when it comes to what people actually believed in- same town had runestones from 900 ad- iceland has zero runestones for ex.