Pagan Ceremony with Christian Family

I’d give them a heads up. It sounds like it would ease your mind to share this part of you and it would also give your family a chance to “prepare” themselves for a new experience. Do you!

Do you and what makes you happy. If you wanna give them a heads up to avoid drama go for it

If you want you can tell them. If not they'll get over it. It sounds harsh but this is for you and not them. Neither of us are religious, I'm atheist and my mom is a devout Catholic. She's going to be unhappy that we won't have a religious ceremony but she'll get over it. I've been this way for the past 20 years. If they love you and support you (which presumably they do or else they wouldn't be there) they will accept it.

Good luck on whatever you choose.

I’m not familiar with pagan ceremonies as I was raised catholic but now don’t practice anything, but is there anything you could put in the invite wording to indicate it was a pagan ceremony?

If you have a wedding website, you might think about having a section devoted to an explanation of Paganism and what it means to you in your life. It's informative and lets your guests know what to expect.

These are all great ideas! I think I will have a part of my wedding website explaining the different things we are choosing to do at our wedding, but not labeling them as necessarily pagan.

This doesn't answer your question but I'm in the same boat. I was wondering how you're going about getting married with pagan traditions? I'm having a hard time finding someone to officiate ours this way. We've considered getting married at the courthouse then having a pagan ceremony after.....