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A real Quaker wedding is not so easy

August 15, 2008
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AMONG the many lies "Clark Rockefeller" told Sandra Boss, you can count the "Quaker ceremony on Nantucket" (Page A1, Aug. 7). Because the island was once a Quaker community, you can marry there, as Quakers do, without a clergyman.

A Quaker wedding is neither easy nor hasty. Two committees must be appointed by a congregation. One of the duties is to sign the legal marriage license, make sure the couple does as well, then return the license to the town hall that issued it. At a real Quaker wedding everyone present is invited to sign the wedding certificate, which describes in detail the exchange of marriage vows.

I'm guessing that the present Friends Meeting on Nantucket never heard of Boss or "Rockefeller" until now.

MARY B. MANGELSDORF
West Falmouth

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