Quaker weddings are the traditional ceremony of marriage within the Religious Society of Friends. Quaker weddings are conducted in a similar fashion to...

Conference, for example, teaches that "Although wedding rings are not necessary in a Quaker wedding, the couple may exchange them if they wish. This...

weddings of other low-church Protestant denominations (e.g., Baptists). A Quaker wedding ceremony in a Friends meeting is similar to any other meeting for worship...

referred to as a "Quaker marriage", after the marriage practice of the Religious Society of Friends, for which see Quaker wedding. California allows...

Quakers are people who belong to the Religious Society of Friends, a historically Protestant Christian set of denominations. Members refer to each other...

vows are promises each partner in a couple makes to the other during a wedding ceremony based upon Western Christian norms. They are not universal to...

bride and groom and witnesses. Although this is an accommodation for a Quaker wedding, any couple is able to apply for it. In the Netherlands, couples intending...

from Yemen, 1890 Marriage contract from Iraq Islamic marriage contract Quaker wedding "Ketubah". The Chambers Dictionary (9th ed.). Chambers. 2003. ISBN 0-550-10105-5...

essentially marry themselves without an officiant present, also known as a Quaker wedding. Racing against the sun and auspicious omens we grabbed Ziggy and the...

following month, on May 6, 1984, Thomas and Ellen were married at a Quaker wedding. During the first three years of the vigil, the Park Police had arrested...

in the mid-17th century in Ulverston. Members are informally known as Quakers, as they were said "to tremble in the way of the Lord". The movement in...

and Quaker wedding vows, Baez and Harris married in New York City on March 26, 1968. Her friend Judy Collins sang at the ceremony. After the wedding, Baez...

"Wedding of the Century"). After finding a pacifist preacher and a church outfitted with peace signs and writing a blend of Episcopalian and Quaker wedding...

Quakers (or Friends) are members of a Christian religious movement that started in England as a form of Protestantism in the 17th century, and has spread...

income tax threshold. On May 6, 1984, Ellen Benjamin married Thomas in a Quaker wedding to become Ellen Thomas. Thomas and her husband protested together for...

codes Paul the Apostle and women Polygamy in Christianity Quaker wedding Quiverfull Wedding Stagg, Evelyn; Stagg, Frank (1978), Woman in the World of...

the acceptance of women as preachers. As there were no priests at Quaker weddings to perform the ceremony, the union took the form of a civil marriage...

excommunicated by the Quakers, as they knew they would be: Angelina for marrying a non-Quaker, and Sarah for being present.: 683–684  After the wedding, Theodore...

grew up in Washington, D.C. She attended Sidwell Friends School, a private Quaker school in Washington, D.C. Biden majored in international relations at the...

Protestant weddings are conducted by a pastor such as a priest as with Lutheranism and Anglicanism, or a minister as with Methodism. In Quaker weddings the couple...

party while she was living in Texas. They married in January 2002 in a Quaker wedding ceremony in Austin. In July 2012, the couple announced plans to separate...

married to Nölken Vyken from Kempen in a Quaker wedding in Krefeld. The opportunity to follow their Quaker beliefs without fear of persecution was undoubtedly...

Society of Friends (Quakers) as metaphors for Christ's light shining on or in them. It was propagated by the founder of the Quaker movement, George Fox...

Religious Society of Friends, known as Quakers. Friends schools vary greatly, both in their interpretation of Quaker principles and in how they relate to...

are members of the Wilburite branch of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). In the United States, Conservative Friends belong to three Yearly Meetings:...

members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) for peace and against participation in war. Like other Quaker testimonies, it is not a "belief", but a...

dress is also practiced by Conservative Friends and Holiness Friends (Quakers), in which it is part of their testimony of simplicity, as well as Old...

organizations or charities founded by Quakers. Many of these are no longer managed or influenced by Quakers. At the end of the article are businesses...

The Quaker movement began in England in the 17th Century. Small Quaker groups were planted in various places across Europe during this early period (For...

parents, Thomas and Maud (née Darlington) Butler, were descended from local Quaker families. Both of his parents were of entirely English ancestry, and their...