^thPolish National Meeting of Couples Who Had Non-Alcokolic Wedding Celebrations

Wedding of the Weddings

(Poland),

We all the couples that celebrated their wedding without alcohol, to (Poland) on to the ^thPolish National Meeting "Wedding of the Weddings" (in Polish "Wesele Wesel").

Young, intelligent, independent and thinking Poles are marrying without alcohol.
In Polish, wedding reception is called “wesele” meaning in English “The Joy”. Everybody should enjoy the wedding, not the drinking.

The Priest Władysław Zązel, heading a small parish in Kamesznica, is working very hard for spreading the tradition of non-alcoholic wedding receptions. In his parish, 120 out of 140 wedding receptions (as of 1994) were celebrated without alcohol. In 1995, he was invited by Radio “Maryja” (a well-known Catholic radio station) to tell the listeners about his experience with alcohol-free weddings. Listeners from all Poland were calling the radio station to say that alcohol-free weddings were organized by many individuals. Father Zązel proposed then to organize a meeting of those who had alcohol-free weddings. The meetings were called “Wedding of the Weddings”. First two such meetings were organized in Father Zązel’s parish Kamesznica, then in Częstochowa, Zamość, Kraków, Białystok, Koszęcin, Ludźmierz, Warszawa, Olsztyn, Wrocław, Bydgoszcz, Tarnów and Łomża. In 1999, Father Zązel went with alcohol-free couples to Rome, where they were blessed by Pope John Paul II.
The meetings are always multi-layered events. Everybody enjoys the all-night-long dancing. But there are also conferences, discussions, lectures, meetings with local state authorities and bishops. The couples swear love as on the day of their wedding and are blessed by the bishops. Every day they attend with their children Holy Masses celebrated specially for them. Even couples from abroad (Austria, Australia, France, Germany) feel attracted.

The 2007 national meeting took place in the first August weekend in 2007 in the picturesque city of Bydgoszcz in north west of Poland.

You can have a look at the 2007 meeting wedding reception, if you click the link.

The meetings pursue the goals:

• FORMATION and INFORMATION
  Conferences, workshops, symposia, panel discussions are organized. Participants share their experience in organizing alcohol-free entertainment, dancings etc.; help in organizing alcohol-free wedding reception is offered to those who are about to marry.

• PROMOTION OF CULTURE
  Meetings with scientists and artists take place

• RECREATION and LEARNING THE BEAUTY OF THE HOMELAND
  Organizers offer excursions, guided tours through historical towns, sighseeing tours, sport competitions etc.

• RECOLLECTIONS and EVANGELIZATION
  Daily Holy Mass with preaches by Church shepherds (bishops, archbishops, cardinals) is attended. The role of matrimonial love, family and the moral principles in the life of society is specially underscored.

• FINE ENTERTAINMENT
  In the last night of the meeting, a wedding reception is celebrated. Parents demonstrate their children by example that they are really capable to dance und cheer without alcohol, so as hundreds of other people from whole Poland coming together that night.

In brief, the Christian initiative „Wesele Wesel“ [in English “Wedding of the Weddings” or "Joy of the weddings"] is engaged in spreading the idea of alcohol-free weddings. It should be stressed in this way that the real joy of a Christian wedding stems from the received Holy Sacrament of the Matrimony, from the love of the man and the woman, and from the wonderful message that a new family has been founded. Since 2006 the career of this initiative is the association "Wesele Wesel".

You had an alcohol-free wedding reception? Share with us your experience.

The Organizers: Mrs. & Mr.
Initiator and spiritual superviser: Reverend Prelate Władysław Zązel
The Board of the Association Wedding of the Weddings

Remark: The official language of the Meeting is Polish.
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