[Avodah] Gentile weddings

[Michael Makovi]

Off-list from [Areivim] Conservative and Reform Weddings, a question
arose: what about gentile weddings? I asked a rabbi of mine, and he
answered that today's gentiles are not like those of yore, and so
there is no issue of going to Achashverosh's party and even though we
brought our own food...It is totally mutar, my rabbi said.

He said that perhaps I shouldn't want to have gentile friends at all
(and instead, why not stay in Eretz Yisrael and have Jewish friends?
What do I need gentile friends for?), and perhaps I should merely make
a token appearance at the wedding and not stay too long...

But in any case, he said that k'halacha, the prohibition is only on
the licentious gentile parties of yore, not the respectable and decent
weddings that are held by the kinds of gentiles we'd all know.

Mikha'el Makovi