Is your wedding Adventist enough?

Take the quiz to find out.

Chip Dizard
3 min readJun 11, 2014

Traditionally June is a huge month for weddings and many people are taking these sacred vows. In this quiz I want you to see if your wedding stacks up as a true Seventh-day Adventist Wedding. Please note these results aren’t scientific .

Give yourself one point for every answer you agree with or applies to you, but deduct a point where any answer dictates.. At the end, calculate your score to see which range you fall along and read the description near it.

Engagement photo of Mr.Jared and Mrs. Anika Anderson. Photo by Coleville Heskey

QUIZ

1. You have no dancing at your reception.

2. You have an emcee and special music at your reception.

3. If you use rings instead of watches. (-1)

4. If you don’t have any music that includes the word “God” in the songs for your ceremony. (-1)

5. If your pastor has already given you marriage counseling.

6. If the bride is not wearing a white dress. (-1)

7. If the pastor knows your entire family.

8. If the pastor is related to you or your spouse.

9. If you or your mother wore jewelry to your wedding. (-1)

10. If there is no alcohol at your reception.

11.If your wedding is on any day but Saturday.

12.When the entire wedding party already knows each other.

13. If your wedding is at a church that has a center isle.

14.If your wedding is held at a SDA church that is more than than 100 years old.

15. If Pastor Paul Graham, MyRon Edmonds or Noah Washington, Carlton Byrd does your ceremony.

16. If the church hospitality board are your caterers.

17. If your reception is in the SDA church fellowship hall. (Add 2 bonus points if the Fellowship Hall is named after one of your relatives)

18. If Anika Sampson-Anderson, Duawne Starling or Sean Tillery sang at your wedding.

19. If you hire Scrolevision to be your wedding photographer.

20. If you hire chipdizardweddings.com to stream or film your wedding. (I know, shameless self-promotion!)

21. If you have no meat at your wedding.

22. If you have steak at your wedding. (-1)

23. If you have the Wobble, Electric Slide and Booty Call dance once the Clergy leave the reception. (-1)

24. If you or your bride had make-up that is sprayed on instead of put on. (-1)

25. If you and your fiancee argued about dancing at the wedding.

26. If your father is a pastor and the officiant.

27. If you have someone sing “In this very room”.

28. If anyone from the group Take 6 attends, sings or is part of your wedding.

29. If your child which you had out of wedlock is in the wedding. (-1)

30. If you got your dress from David’s Bridal or Tux from Men’s Wearhouse.

-7 — 10: YOLO (You only live once), if you had communion during your wedding no one would be shocked if you used real wine to drink. You probably had an open bar, jazz band or dj spin songs all night long.

11 — 17: You are on the cusp, you like to party like it’s 1999 but can’t because of family pressure. You may not know how to pronounce every Bible name but you know the laws and customs of the land from whence you came. You didn’t totally buck the expectations of tradition but creatively expressed that today was your day.

18 — 24: You are a bonafide -tried and true SDA and you won’t let a wedding day stop the 28 fundamental beliefs in your life. You serve dinner roast as an entree and have Martenelli’s for the first toast! You have fond memories of your church fellowship hall reception.

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