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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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Non-traditional wedding vows samples that will inspire you to write

Trying to find the right words for your non-traditional wedding vows? These examples from real alternative weddings can help!

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Vow ideas for terminally ill people + advice for hospital weddings

From a reader: “It’s very hard to find vow renewal scripts for terminally ill people. We’ve been through so much and the fight has just began AGAIN and this time is the last. We need these.” We’re here to help.

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The vows from this Native American / Irish handfasting wedding will make you cry

We wanted to celebrate both of our families — Irish/Scottish on my side, Kiowa on his — so our ceremony was a handfasting wedding, held on Mark’s family’s allotment land. One of the things that tie both our families and cultures together is a love of horses, so including “wedding horses” felt perfect to us.

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Officiating a wedding? You need these wedding ceremony interview questions!

So you’ve been asked to officiate a friend’s ceremony and you have no idea where to start? Well, we’ve got you. At Offbeat Wed, not only do we have a massive archive of wedding ceremony scripts for folks who are officiating a wedding, plus tons of advice about how to officiate a wedding… but today we’ve got questions you can ask the couple getting married to help you write your wedding officiant script.