You may now kiss each other
Every once in a while, a couple comes up with a wedding alternative I’ve just never thought of before. Lo and behold, Dagny and Charlie came up with this super simple twist to a traditional ceremony script:
“It was also important to me that our first kiss as a married couple was something that both of us entered into. Traditionally, people say, ‘You may now kiss the bride.’ We opted instead for, ‘You may now kiss each other.’ For many, it seemed like a silly, small thing, but for me it was a big deal.”
Geeky wedding vows – 10 examples from REAL weddings!
Fellow gamers, book-lovers, pop culture fiends, Potterphiles, Browncoats, Tolkien fans, Whovians, and zombie apocalypse fighters, and all other forms of geekdom in need of nerd-tinged, geeky wedding vows… these reader-submitted vows will save the princess in your castle. It’s dangerous to write vows alone… take these.
Short & sweet Halloween wedding ceremony script
This Halloween wedding ceremony script is all about binding two souls for ALL ETERNITY instead of just “til death”…
Herding cats: wedding rehearsal tips and advice
It’s down to the wire and you’re all ready to start figuring out how the ceremony is going to go down. Maybe you’re lucky enough to have a wedding planner helping, or maybe you’re the point person who will be wrangling the cats. Either way, here are some of our tips for making sure your wedding rehearsal is useful and as stress-free as possible.
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…