Ceremony details - what are you doing?

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We will be keeping it simple and sweet. Just saying our own vows!

We're keeping our ceremony super simple and short as we wanted to do it at city hall then meet up with everyone after and celebrate but we got major backlash about wanting to see me walk down the aisle so that is what we are giving them.. simple short vows and then dancing.

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Our officiant gave us a book of a whole bunch of different readings that we can choose from or put in our own. It was a lifesaver really. Maybe ask him/her if they have something like that they can give you.

We are planning on getting married in Dominican Republic. We have decided to integrate some typical wedding traditions from the DR into our wedding. If you look at your heritage, you could find some wedding traditions from your ancestors culture that may interest you

We are not religious either so we have opted for a wedding commissioner. No sand or candle ceremony I want it very simple and quick. The love letter idea is great though!

Hand fasting! It's a thing where they tie your hands together with ribbons.

View quoted message He's our unofficial officiant. We have a legally certified officiant who will be witnessing the ceremony and she will do the pronouncement of us as husband and wife and sign the legal documents. Our friend didn't have time to get licensed.

View quoted message Was your friend already able to officiate or did they go through the process for your wedding? We wanted to have a friend officiate but the process to do so in Canada seemed very involved.

Love it! Thanks for sharing!

Wine box and love letter ceremony. It's super cute. You write love letters to each other saying why you love that person. Sealed and left in a box that u can get or u can make one, that holds the bottle of wine, or u can supplement for whatever you choose. and they get opened on your 5 year anniversary.

We are doing a short ceremony as well, a friend of ours is officiating, and we are saying the vows that they have provided us. We are having a short reading and doing the exchanging of the rings, short and sweet. My FH and I are both Catholic, so we are going to have some elements of religion in the ceremony but as we are not getting married in a church, it is not traditional.

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Bethany, what great ideas. I'm going to think about incorporating this into my wedding! Thank you.

Thanks everyone! Really appreciate your feedback!

We are doing a very basic ceremony. We both are not very religious and I suck at public speaking so our officiant gave us a page of different vows that we can choose the one we like to recite on the day of and the standard norm of what has to be in the ceremony and that is it. We are looking at a 20 min ceremony.

I do like the love letter in a box idea its very neat.

We are having our ceremony in a Church which I know isn't what your doing, but I am more than happy to share my timeline with you. We picked one of the pastors at our Church to be our officiant and we went with traditional vows that they provide for us. We will be doing communion with the bread and juice and then a candle unity and before the ceremony, my mom and my fiancé's mom both light a candle and so instead of just 2 people joining together as one, it will be 2 families joining together as one.

We're having a handfasting ceremony along with oath stones. So our colours for the ribbon and still need to choose river stones or tumbled for the guests to hold through the ceremony and place in a vessel to stay in our home.

We're having our friend officiate and will be saying our own vows. That's about it for us.

We are doing something similar to a sand ceremony, only with paint!

View quoted message Love that! What a unique and beautiful idea! Thanks for sharing.

We are doing a sand ceremony, I love the "love letter" idea! so cute

We're doing love letters to put in a box to read 10 years later with a bottle of alcohol. We're doing a rose ceremony where we promise to give a rose if we have an argument or see the other person is having a bad day, so they remember our commitment and lovvvve