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We’re doing different but similar floral elements. We are doing our full ceremony with our priest as far as blessing/wearing/placing the Mala beads, reading some prayers (which we will to each other in this case since there won’t be a reader), blessing/exchanging rings, vows...

I’m going to walk myself down the aisle for the elopement since it will just be our parents present and I’m concerned about distancing and everyone’s safety.

I’m thinking for our larger vow renewal and celebration, we’ll still read the prayers & a guided meta meditation (or have someone read them), we’ll place our rings (maybe I’ll get another ring) with a new promise, new vows as I’m sure we’ll have things to say after 10 more months that are different than the present moment...probably won’t place the mala beads again.

I will be wearing a different dress for each and FH may wear a different suit or accessories. Will be doing HMU differently...

We are doing the same thing as you but everything different. I’m not even wearing a dress I’m wearing jeans. All the wedding party will just be seated not up there with us. No walking down the aisle, first dance, speeches nothing. We want to save everything special for the wedding. It will just be us saying vows we wrote and having cupcakes afterward. If we did everything now I would be super bummed so many people wouldn’t be able to see it and I would not want to go forward with the other wedding.

Yaas minimony! I wasn't sure what to call my upcoming small, family-only wedding, so I just called it my "elopement" - which low key makes me cringe to say, I hate the way that sounds ha ha. I will now refer to it as a minimony or mircowedding - so much better! We only recently decided to do the minimony so we've been scrambling with some things lol. Since we are last minute almost all vendors are new/different for the minimony. Definitely 2 different dresses, new florist, new photog, new bakery lol. It's strange going from asking for a huge cake to small cake, huge number of bouquets to 2 LOL. I'm going to ask my dad to walk me down in both. We are doing a traditional church ceremony for the minimony, and an outdoor ceremony for the second large wedding. So the readings/songs will have a completely different vibe for each. We ordered a small dance floor for our backyard tent for the minimony reception, and I 'think' we will use our original song for our first dance. We'll see how we feel later if we keep the same song for the second large wedding or change it up. This is a good question, and I'm interested to hear what others are doing for each. Good luck!

I am marry with two friends. My best friend is my MOH and got her dress. My FH will wear a suit and we will walk in and out to music. I am having a bouquet and rented a nice venue that had a great elopement special. I still got a two tier cake for cake cutting pics (and eating) lol. Even if it is an intimate ceremony really the only thing I am not doing apart from first dance is a reception. If the place is still operating I have reserved as a surprise to FH to get a rooftop canopy at a lounge following where we can sit, eat and drink with a beautiful views of downtown. I am giving gifts for the couple for coming and MOH gifts for her being my best friend and awesome. I have photographers and everything. Make the day special.

For me of course a different dress, different bouquet as well the cake ..same shoes though and same veil and same photographer will hire him again after my small wedding this Friday 💍🍾🌹 so pretty much instead of small just 100 guest in a backyard wedding 👰🏽

I was also wondering what everyone was doing for their new plans for a minimony. I am getting married in my grandparents backyard. I will use some of the decorations I already have. I think I am just gonna walk by myself down the aisle with a song playing on bluetooth, wedding party will be seated and just have me and the groom up there. Short and sweet vows and then I plan just having like a BBQ with everyone and a small basic cake. No first dance, speeches, or professional photography. I want to save all the special or more extravagant events for the reception next year. The only other thing I'm still doing is buying a new, more casual dress and getting my hair/makeup done.

I'm not doing anything that was planned for our original wedding during our minimony! I don't want any special moments to take away from the "big day" since we decided to still get married on our original date. It will be just us, our officiant and a photographer (different photographer than the one we hired for our wedding.) I won't be wearing my wedding dress, no bouquet, no vows and no family. Just an intimate moment for us to say our "I do's" because we've waited 8 years already. And saving all the good stuff for our postponed date when it's safe to do so! We will be going on a little minimoon afterward as well, don't feel comfortable flying/traveling too far.

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That's exactly what we are doing Angel! We had a mini-mony in April and we are hoping to have our full wedding August 22nd 2020. I say full wedding but its half the guest list but everyone we are really close with will be there so we are happy! But I am struggling with what to change about the ceremony. We saved as much as we possibly could for our "real" wedding. I saved my dress, veil, vows, etc. BUT we both have always wanted to do the first look and say our vows then with just us and a videographer. So I don't know what to do differently for the ceremony. My dad will walked me down the aisle, we will do our knot tying unity thing but idk what the pastor should say. Should I mimic a vow renewal ceremony? We want to embrace the fact we are already married and have fun with it in the ceremony! Anyone have any ideas on what we can do differently??