In which Christian denomination(s), do people plan their weddings around the bride's menstrual periods?
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Most protestant traditions don't focus on religious purity at all, let alone menstruation. First, Gentile Christians aren't required to follow Mosaic law. (Acts 15) Second, because of Grace and Christ's sacrifice, our sins and impurities are cleansed. There's nothing we can do to make ourselves more pure and that includes waiting a couple of days for your cycle to end.
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Though I'm not a woman or a confidant of women, I've never heard this spoken of before in Protestant circles. That doesn't mean it doesn't happen, but I don't think this is a typical consideration.
Assigning (religious) impurity to menses would require adherence to the Law of Moses, I think. As a personal matter, there's nothing to prohibit someone from concluding that about herself, but since such a link between impurity and menstruation is ever made in the New Testament, I suspect that most protestants won't ever say that the two are inherently linked.
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For Protestant Christians this probably isn't much of an issue these days because they are accepting of contraception and the pill allows you to delay your period.
I'm not aware of how it was before the pill became available, and Christians of the past would usually speak about sex even less than they do now. But western (or Anglo at least) wedding conventions have long said that invitations must go out a long time before the wedding. Wedding venues usually also need to be booked many months in advance. Some women's cycles are very regular, but many aren't, so they'd have to just choose a date and hope for the best. Those unlucky couples who had their wedding during the wife's period would have to decide if they wanted to wait or go ahead and have sex anyway. The decision however would probably be on the basis of personal feelings of ickyness rather than ritual purity, a concept which isn't featured in Protestantism.
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