Blended family wedding vows: 9 wedding scripts + what NOT to do
Over the years, we’ve seen lots of really lovely ways to include children in blended family weddings, but we’ve never featured the vows that were spoken. I’ve enlisted the help of a few of our favorite officiants, asking them to share wording for blended family vows that they’ve written. (Plus, we’ve got one batch of bonus vows from an Offbeat Bride reader!)
Wedding vows that include ice cream, sweet promises and… beating people up
Amanda recently shared with us her husband’s incredible vows. They each wrote their own vows, and kept them secret from each other until they read them aloud at the ceremony. Pete had started writing his a couple of weeks before the wedding, but, according to Amanda, “he scrapped his first attempts and wrote something from scratch the day before the wedding. What he said ended up being so perfect and beautiful that I have to share it.” And share it we shall!
5 steps to getting over your wedding vow writer’s block
Here’s some solid advice for those of you with vow writer’s block From questions to ask yourself, to considering format, there’s more than likely something in here to help you break through your writer’s block.
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?