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Just Said Yes July 2022

Ceremony ideas since we eloped due to the pandemic

Jess, on July 17, 2021 at 10:05 PM Posted in Wedding Ceremony 1 5

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My now husband and I eloped last December. We got engaged last year and decided to do a micro wedding and a big party in a few years. At the time the vaccine hadn't been announced yet so we had no idea when a big party could happen. The micro wedding ended up getting called off due to COVID. But we still decided to get married and eloped in our living room instead.
We are now planning our wedding celebration with family and friends for July 2022. However since nobody witnessed our wedding except our parents (mine were on zoom, my husbands were our witnesses) we want to do a ceremony for all our family and friends to witnesses. I know of a lot of couples that eloped last year and are doing a big celebration later. So has anyone that’s in the same situation done anything different if you had/are going to have the ceremony or changed up the script for the officiant? I thought about making some jokes about the fact we will have already been married for a year and a half. But wasn’t sure of any other ideas people had come up with.

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Latest activity by Kari, on July 19, 2021 at 9:42 AM

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Yasmine · on July 18, 2021 at 1:32 PM
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You simply could do a vow renewal 🤷🏾‍♀️ If you right your own vows you could throw some jokes in.
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Monica · on July 18, 2021 at 2:18 PM
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Haven’t talked about it with my pastor yet but im thinking she will have her own speech, we will exchange our written vows then we are doing 2 unity ceremonies. Not sure if we will exchange rings. Im interested to see what others say.
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August 2021
Nancy · on July 18, 2021 at 4:23 PM
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Similar situation. Calling it a ‘celebration of marriage ‘ ceremony on our invitation. Our Pastor is doing the full ceremony, just as he did for the ‘micromony’ last year. And having the reception following with several hundred people.
So many other brides missed out on celebrating with friends and family and extended social circles because of Covid last year. Enjoy the pre- wedding events of bridal showers and bachelorette parties- no one will question this because this was a once- in- a - hundred - year event.
So start planning and have FUN!
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Just Said Yes July 2022
Jess · on July 18, 2021 at 7:43 PM
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Oh I’ve already booked all our vendors and venue. I’m enjoying it but wanted to have fun and get creative with the ceremony. We are not a very serious couple that’s for sure. We are already having a lot of fun quirky things that speak to our personalities. So I was interested if anyone has come up with some interesting ideas on how to get creative with the ceremony given how unconventional a lot of us have had to been with our weddings lately!
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Kari · on July 19, 2021 at 9:42 AM
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We eloped and did a ceremony for our wedding celebration this year. We changed up the words of the ceremony to reflect that we were already married, updated our vows to include some words about supporting each other through the past year, and instead of exchanging rings we "honored" them. When we did our elopement we never went through the whole ceremony we planned - we had improvised - so this was our opportunity to have a slightly longer and more thoughtfully articulated event. There were a few jokes thrown in (but nothing all that different than what we had originally planned).
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