Do I HAVE to Get Married in the TEMPLE?? 

On my mission in California, I met a married couple who were members of the Church and had 3 teenagers, but they had only been married civilly. When my companion and I brought up the subject of them getting sealed in the Temple, they looked at each other, then at us, and did the whole "What, with him?!?"/"What, with her?!?" thing. They told us, in front of each other, that they were perfectly happy to just be married for this life, and then part as friends at death. My companion and I were dumbfounded, and while we wanted them to get sealed, we didn't want to push them into it. We prayed about it, and felt that yes, we shouldn't push them, but that instead we should encourage them to read the Book of Mormon every day, both individually and as a family. We decided to put Marion G. Romney's promise to the test (if you don't know what that is, look it up; this comment is already way too long!). This couple told us that they hadn't been reading the scriptures at all, but that they would start immediately! Only about 2 weeks later, they had us over for dinner, and I noticed several things: the couple sat next to each other on the couch with their arms around each other, they were much more respectful to each other and their kids, their kids seemed much happier overall, and there was a new "Families Are Forever" plaque on the wall in their kitchen. We asked them how their Book of Mormon reading was going, and they all said excitedly that it was going perfectly; it was even hard to stop sometimes! Then, as we were leaving, they said, "Oh, remember what we said about never wanting to get sealed? Well, we've changed our minds... and we have an appointment with the Bishop this Sunday to get us all ready for going to the Temple." Well, the *tl,dr* is: If you can get sealed in the Temple, do it. If you can but just don't want to, read the Book of Mormon, especially with your significant other. That'll take care of everything.

My son and his fiancee whose family is of another faith have decided to be sealed privately with our family in attendance and then the next day they will have a " wedding " complete with white dress, bridesmaids, ring and vows exchange in the chapel followed by a reception at a wedding venue for her non lds family. My husband and I did the same thing for our families were not LDS.

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I was engaged to three people that were members and called all three off. Then married someone who wasn't a member and he joined the church 2 months later. I thought The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints is true, he's a smart guy, hell figure it out and by gulley he did. Praise God. 🧡💚💙💛💜❤

I’m not a part of the lds church but I may be in the future and I’ve really been thinking about marriage I think it would be so so important to be with them forever but my family was my biggest concern so this gave me a lot of comfort to hear that I could still proceed to have a wedding the next day with all my family if we chose to do so

My husband, daughter, and myself got sealed in the Ogden, Utah temple this last November! It was PURE MAGIC!!! 💜💜💜💜

I have been happily married to a very wonderful and righteous woman, my best friend, my soulmate, my earthly conscience, my best friend, and most importantly my eternal companion providing I adhere to the covenants that were made at the Las Vegas temple of our Lord in 1995. We celebrate our anniversary twice a year. The way I Call it, double my pleasure double my fun! The three of you truly have the light of Christ in your presentations, and the camaraderie.

What hasn't been addressed here is all those single members in the church who don't have the opportunity for marriage who are faithful latter-day saints. But for one reason or another did not get the opportunity to marry.

My parents got married in a church building then got sealed a year later when I was a month old.

I really needed this video. Thanks guys for the awesome advice!

When I married my wife, she had only been a member for a few months an they don't allow you to go to the temple for the first year after baptism, so we just got a civil marriage, then had a temple sealing a year later

My husband and I had a civil marriage because I wasn't ready for my endowment and he had only recently been rebaptised into the Church so still had to wait for his blessings to be reinstated, but the temple has been the goal since the very first date. The plan is to get sealed on our first anniversary at the Melbourne temple :)

My husband wasn’t active in The Church when we started dating. As we started talking the possibility of marriage I told him it was in the Temple or it wasn’t happening. He really didn’t have much to do to become worthy - give up coffee and his occasional beer. He decided I was worth those sacrifices so he went to our Bishop and they created a plan to have him worthy to take me to the Temple. We were married in the Saint George, Utah Temple 24 1/2 years ago. An added bonus of getting married in the Temple- when we had rough patches, especially in the beginning, the knowledge we had eternal covenants gave us more motivation work through our differences - and we can “renew” our “vows” anytime we want by doing work in the Temple

It was interesting to know that in some countries the temple marriage isn’t considered legally bind marriage. I didn’t know that

A Temple sealing and then a wedding to show what Heavenly Father is doing in the lives of his two children, A total celebration of their gifted eternal love.

I don't want to get married in a temple. I would still want a Christian marriage ceremony.

I have been reading the Bible about marriage and it says there is no marriage in heaven we are all married to God and that is what my church teaches but I am married to a LDS girl and we've been married for 14 years and she wants to get married to Temple the only problem with that is that I don't believe in the LDS religion anymore because I've been going to a Christian Church

When I started dating my wife I did it all right, I met her at a church dance and got her phone number only to find out she was Catholic and planning to become nun. I continued on with life thinking there was no way that one would work but she kept sending me messages and finally I invited her to another church dance, and she showed up. Then she invited me to go with her to visit at a Catholic event where the Catholic bishop of Tonga was visiting in California. It was in Santa Clara and taking her home I deliberately took the wrong road and went up interstate 580 instead that meant we needed to travel through Oakland to get her home, which reminded me I needed to go visit that place I pointed up the hill to her and she said okay. It was the Oakland Temple, and I took her to the visitors' center and eventually she did get baptized, but we were in our thirties and so waiting another year longer would just mess up plans to have more kids. After some serious prayer, we got married in July 2010, she was baptized the March prior which meant we were going to the temple to do baptisms already, but she couldn't get her endowments. We were married at the stake center and fortunately everyone was very accommodating. My parents joined the church when I was three and we couldn't get my mom's family to our church for anything, but when we had our wedding my grandma who for her whole life was anti-Mormon and anti dancing showed up and since my wife is Tongan that meant a lot of dancing. Most of my family thought my grandma wouldn't like that but she loved it. She said the dancing was done in the church, so the Lord's Spirit was there. I realized that as a missionary we struggled to get people to just arrive that first time and we were really shutting the door in a way to one of the things most people would be willing to go to another church for, a friend or family member's wedding. In the early days of the Restoration Oliver Cowedery wrote that weddings should be public etc and we only changed that due to the sealing ordinance. But in other countries members had to be married civil before being sealed anyways which led to more people arriving for the wedding and feeling llike they were participating in more than just a sit outside an wait arrangement. Before our wedding we took pictures at the temple, and they even let us in the waiting area inside to sit and pray before going to the stake center. My wife was pregnant a month after we were married and she got her endowments out a year after being baptized and the stake president showed us the new rule that we didn't have to wait a year from our wedding to be sealed so we were sealed on Saturday May 14, 2011 and our oldest daughter was born Tuesday morning at 4 AM, so the temple was closed between the time we were sealed and she was born. A lot of what I followed was prayer and reading my patriarchal blessing, plus I had a bishop who married his wife before joining the church and he said "I'd never be your bishop if she would have just walked away because I wasn't a member".

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Both my wife and I had both been divorced from previously sealed to spouses. We were married civilly and sealed a year later.

My girlfriend and I have planned to get married civilly because my family aren't members of the church and then we will be sealed to each other in the temple afterwards

I am so grateful to be married in the temple. It was amazing.

Things have changed on the yearly wait.....which is great!

I dont understand.....why not just have two ceremonies. 1 in temple . And then a normal wedding??

We wanted a normal wedding for everyone to attend, and then a more intimate sealing, but the leadership didn't allow it. They told us that if we had the normal wedding on Friday, we weren't allowed to get sealed on Saturday. We would have to wait a year. Boo. We were pretty bummed because this rule isn't universal and it seems like it is just meant to exclude non-member family and friends.

We don't get married in the temple we get sealed for time and eternity. Why wouldn't someone want to have such Incredible blessings that do not end at death And the only thing we are asked is to love one another and keep the law of chastity. Which I imagine all married couples would want to do

You dont get married in the temple you get sealed so while you are legally married when you get sealed you don't have to to get married in it and like said you can get married first then get sealed at a later time.

The question is, is it against the religion to get married outside of the church? and if marriage outside of the church happens, what are the spiritual consequences for that? and you have not answered that question and played around it.

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We are recommended to marry in the temple. You used to have to wait one year to be sealed if you married outside the temple. They just got rid of that globally, and if you marry by a JP, judge, bishop etc. you can go straight to the temple for sealing.

Why not have a civil wedding first, so family can attend, then become sealed in the temple afterward, when members can enjoy their exclusive ceremony?

I hate weddings too David! 🙌🏻

"Don't you know that you yourself are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in your midst" 1 Cor 3:16, Do you know that your bodies are the temples of the Holy Spirit. who lives in you and was given to you by God?", 1Cor 6:19 Nowhere in the bible does it say you must be married to have eternal life, 2 Peter 1:19 "Prophecy of scripture come from the Holy Spirit not from man."

E porque tem membros casados com outros membros Sud e não são selados até hj , eles não foram obrigado a selar e muitos casaram no civil e não são celados ?

When the talk about family not getting the chance to be there for the marriage. Options are do It have a reception for fam. or it is between you and your spouse and It can be just y'all and "party" after with everyone.this hit home for me but I come from a divorced family NEVER sealed my dad's not a member so ya thank guy it's good this is known

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So can we as LDS members with a temple recommend have a civil marriage and then a temple marriage the next day? I think I vaguely remember someone saying that you have to wait a year after a civil marriage to get sealed.

Los Angeles Temple 50 Years ago......

I want to get married in the mesa temple

Can you get married civilly due to the timing of just joining say, then renew your vows at the temple?

I wish we didn’t have to get married to reach a higher level of the celestial kingdom

I don't understand the whole temple marriage thing. Who really wants to "rule & reign in the house of Israel" forever? Sounds so political and militant. That doesn't sound like a family sentiment. The thought of creating endless children and creations as if you're forever not satisfied with what you have or realizing that we have to walk around on marble floors barefooted and in togas and giving commands with a "return and report" to people who go visit earths, look around and come back with the news. ..looks so quirky and awkward. Reporting that the devil (your wayward son you had to expell from heaven) is there with his robes...ugh. How did they even decide what plants and animals they had to bring to this earth when Jesus and Adam were creating it? Where did they bring it here from? What about the dinosaurs? Can't ignore the proof they were here. It used to all make sense until I started "ponderizing" things. ..then it all unravels and makes no sense. Really. ... God lives on a planet closest to another planet called Kolob? Is that where they got all the plants and animals to put on this earth before they konked out Adam and put him on the earth nude in some grass? Then he wakes up all dazed with amnesia as to the fact he's now living on an earth he helped create by talking to the elements and they moved into place by a command? And why can't people get married on the other side if its so important? Seems like God would allow it. He allows it by proxy on earth (supposedly)....but not the real thing there?...unless you find yourself being one of those old maids who never marry and their bishops always weirdly assure them they will have that chance in the next life? Why does that work for them but not the handsome guy who had every girl after him on earth and never did marry. How do we know that just because he had his chance and didn't get married, now he's been relegated to some lower class kingdom? And then there's that new name thing. ..where everyone going through the temple that day for the first time, gets the same new name. It's hilarious. Most of the men's new names are Biblical sounding yet the wives, ....they get to have unpopular pioneer women names. It's all weird.

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"I think marriage was invented to make us better....some people seek solace in relationships and stuff but be better than that." I don't think marriage is a better choice than solitude. I'm married because I was married before I was saved and because I am prob too weak not to be but I tend to agree with Paul that anyone who is able, should remain unmarried so as not to divide their love for the Lord. How does the LDS address that? It seems they promote marriage and lots of kids as God's plan for everyone but each new family member you create divides your love.

Justin is getting married!!!

The finger thing It’s so Catholic/Jesuit

The answer is simple: no. If you’re a member and they’re not, you should not be married. You should be equally yolked in the faith.

BOY! What a different 'Gospel' than the one I and my mom and my grandmother and my great grandmother etc grew up in. So is this doctrine? Or should I...'go to God' for that? Or only Nelson? Or Spencer W Kimball? So if you get a temple marriage, At some point..... Aren't we all family? Or will it just be me and my kids and what if they want to move out in heaven? OMG! Everything I worked so hard for on Earth would be gone! Ok I jest. But how many great greats and how many 3rd 4th 5th cousins are going to be 'together forever?'* *Terms and conditions apply.

Bad ending. There are no rings involved in the temple wedding ceremony.

The divorce rate among married temple recommend holders is one of the lowest in the world. One study put it at 5%. That means a 95% chance of being happily married for all eternity. Works for us.

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Lost it @overly attached girlfriend

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