Announce that all are welcome with this simple wedding greeting
If you’re searching for a way to show solidarity with loved ones or simply a way to announce that your wedding is a safe space for all, steal this greeting.
We couldn’t agree who should officiate, so we had a self-uniting wedding
We couldn’t agree on anyone to be our officiant — each person we thought of “belonged” too strongly to me or to my husband; no one belonged enough to both of us. We aren’t religious, so there was no minister in our life, and we didn’t want to bring in someone we didn’t know. So using resources I found here, including Wedding Ceremony 101 and a few wedding ceremony scripts that I collected from my family, I wrote our ceremony, divided up the text between me and my husband, and we officiated our own wedding…
A unicorn wedding ceremony script with coinflip vows
Our officiant wrote most of our ceremony, and really knocked it out of the park. But my partner and I each picked out a reading, and I took a bunch of Daily Odd Compliments and put them together in a way that flowed. Then we wrote the unity ceremony part, and used a unity ceremony we found here on Offbeat Bride. I’m mostly in love with it, so I want to share it with you…
Wrestle power from the government with this blessing for your nonlegal wedding
I was browsing through Molly and Laurie’s wedding photos and came across an officiant’s blessing that made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. The couple said their vows in Washington before the state had legalized gay marriage, and their celebrant closed the ceremony with this statement: