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ceremony

Looking for ceremony scripts? Wedding readings? Advice on how to officiate a friend’s wedding? We’ve got all that and MORE.

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How to walk down the aisle when you’ve got two moms

I have lesbian parents and I was wondering how I ask one mother over the other to walk me down the aisle? I am planning on asking my ‘other’ mother, that is my non-birth mother, to honor the special relationship we have. But even the thought of it makes me feel like I am, 1) […]

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How do you have a wedding ceremony without a Bible?

We’re ALL for Christian couples having religious ceremonies, but find it disrespectful for non-Christians to smile and nod through a religious service they don’t actually believe in. So, how do you craft a secular ceremony?

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Adair & Christiaan’s Japanese-Inspired, Summer in January Wedding

The Offbeat Bride: Adair, Grad Student My Offbeat Partner: Christiaan, Grad Student Location & date of wedding: Bartlesville Community Center in Bartlesville, Oklahoma — 01/03/2009 What made our wedding offbeat: We both had very different conceptions of what our wedding should be. The groom was very keen on much of the symbolic tradition of weddings, […]

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Love the fiance, love the in-laws

Whilst I can’t wait to marry my fiance, I can’t stand his family. Any ideas how we can include my partner’s in-laws in our wedding without making it seem contrived or forced? I understand they’re his family, and he loves them, but does that really mean I have to?