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Alternative Wedding Ceremony Ideas & Examples

We’ve got SO much wedding ceremony advice like how to officiate a wedding, tons of wedding ceremony readings, a bazillion wedding ceremony scripts, and even wedding vow examples! We’ve also got info about handfasting and other unity ceremonies. You’ll want to start here: Wedding Ceremony 101.

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A love that holds the universe together: sci-fi wedding vows

“I promise to love you in crisis and abundance the way I love New York City: with patience, respect, grit, and an eye for the mysterious and unexpectedly beautiful. My love for you is like the gravity holding the universe together: steadfast, unceasing, and constant until the end of my days. Our foundation is firm, our orbit is stable, and the Force is with us.”

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Funny wedding vows from a night wedding

Remember Michele and Rob’s starry night wedding? Here are their promised unabridged funny wedding vows – soonlyweds who want to proclaim their love for one another with a good roasting, take heed!

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These superhero wedding vows include a unity snack mix ceremony!

Last week we featured a comic book wedding that had it all: Pizza! Spiderman! Rickrolling down the aisle! Now it’s time for the rest of the story – here are their complete superhero wedding vows, full of superheroes, scifi, nerd culture refs, and a unity snack mix ceremony!

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Come travel with me: Walt Whitman wedding reading (+ quotes for vows!)

If travel is important to you and your partner, let these Walt Whitman wedding vows inspire you. These vows include excerpts from the Walt Whitman poem “Song of the Open Road,” plus a reading that’s a mashup of both “Song of the Open Road” and Whitman’s “Song of Myself.”