Weddings come in all shapes and sizes, but I don’t think any could be quite as unusual as this one, melding three different faiths.

From the Los Angeles Times:

We are on the Greek island of Spetses. It’s 30 hours before the wedding of Minos Matsas, a Greek-born, L.A.-based composer, and the Mexican-Japanese filmmaker Amira Lopez, who also lives in L.A. When Minos and Amira made their big decision, there was the eternal problem: In what religion should the ceremony be performed?

The groom: a Sephardic Jew. The bride: a Shinto on her mother’s side and a Catholic on her father’s. Minos wanted to please his traditional Jewish parents, and Amira felt that her parents and their traditions should be respected, too. What to do?

The couple decided to have a three-religion ceremony, because, said Minos, Religion should unite people, not separate them. And after all, aren’t all religions one?

Organizing a wedding on a Greek island is already complicated. But trying to find a rabbi, a Catholic priest and a Shinto priest who are willing to travel overseas to perform a spiritual ceremony together is next to impossible. After phone calls, emails, letters, invitations and pleas, we found a liberal rabbi on the East Coast and an open-minded Catholic priest in California. And yes, they would travel! Finding the Shinto priest was more difficult, as their religion worships nature, and traveling is generally not part of the practice. But then…a miracle! The Shinto priest who founded the only temple in Europe was willing and would bring all the sacred elements needed for the union — a mobile temple, if you will.

There’s more — and pictures — at the link.