Don't know what the officiant should say at the ceremony

Hmm I'm in the same boat

Hi Samazing !

Congrats on the wedding !! The time will fly by !! We are getting married in August and I cant believe 4 mths (since us picking our date) have flown by already.

Our officiant gave us a package of information so we can basically "cut and paste" our ceremony together. What we want to say, when, etc. I cant wait to start doing that.

We arent religious at all !! and I was very adamant about not having that as part of our ceremony. I love that we have options

I will try to copy it all in an attachment and send it over to you if you would like

Let me know if you'd like it

Thanks

Amanda

I also have those sheets saved to my computer in a file already, so if anyone wants them emailed - pm me your personal email they are documents that I can not post on here.

Haley- please forward them my direction! My uncle is marrying us and he needs guidelines!

Does your ordained friend have any other ordained friends that can give her some advice/coaching?

The book of common prayer has some marriage ceremonial stuff in it.

http://www.bcponline.org/General/toc.html

http://www.bcponline.org/PastoralOffices/marriage.htm

http://www.bcponline.org/PastoralOffices/an_order_for_marriage.htm

I'm so glad I'm not the only one

I would love all the info I can get.. I will PM both Hayley and Amanda with my email

Thanks so much ladies!

Site with descriptions of "special" ceremony ideas (sand, rose, candle, etc)

site also has reads, scriptures, poems...

http://www.interfaithofficiants.com/DesignYourOwnCeremonyPages/DesignYourOwnCeremonyRituals.html

I offer civil (non-religious) ceremonies as well as traditional (little bit religious) ceremonies. Each ceremony is customized to the couple.

I don't know if your minister friend is comfortable with doing a civil ceremony -- you may want to find a civil officiant (check with your courthouse to see who is allowed to officiate).

There certainly are sample ceremonies online that you could put together. Give your officiant time to review it and make sure s/he is comfortable with it and that it would meet the legal requirements.

I'm in the same boat too! We're having our high school drama teacher become a minister for a day and marry us since that's how we met!

I'm not at all religious, and part of me wants to give a nod to Romeo and Juliet (the play we were in together). All of my friends now will laugh, since I turned out to be a stage manager, but I still think it would be cute.

This is the one I'm leaning towards so far, and I'll probably do some tweaking on my own: http://www.frugalbride.com/civilceremonysample1.html

Let rev. Google be your guide! There is tons of sample ceremony scripts, sample rituals, ceremonies, etc. that you can incorporate to your magical day. Or even so, you can do your own.... I personally loved on a wedding that I officiated where each of the couples sang to each other as their wedding vows (with chorus and everything). Best!

Hello there. We are in the exact same situation. Can you also send the documents to me? ******.*********@*****.*** Thanks so much for your help! Really appreciate it.

Haley,

If you're still on here after all this time has passed I'd love for you to pass along to me any information about what the officiant should say. Thank you!

Yes Haley,

If you are still on here, and still have what was said at your ceremony, I would love a copy. Thanks.

View Quoted Comment Hi Hayley
i was wondering if you could also send me those documents to get an idea of what my uncle should be saying when he marries us!!
Thanks