Unique aspects to your ceremony?

We're doing the knot tying ceremony vs the sand ceremony. Our theme is road2ridgeway so I'm getting a sign that points to the venue that says road to ridgeway. Eh that's all I got haha maybe some more creativity will come along

There's always personal vows, of course. We also added a section near the beginning where our officiant described how we met, where we each said why we fell in love with each other. My bouquets were also unique with barley and custom selected dried flowers.

I am tying my parents original wedding bands to my bouquet to symbolize the meaning of true, long lasting love. They've been married for 34 years. Then to honor his parents we are using his dads first bible that was used to save him (a very special moment for his family). We are tying our wedding bands to it and that is what our ring bearer, their grandson, will walk down the isle carrying.

My grandfather is Greek, it is a custom to do a crown dance at a Greek wedding, so me and FH are going to wear the crowns my grandparents wore when they did their crown dance for our first dance.

We did a hand fasting in lieu of any prayer or blessing. I braided the cord by hand (order them online if you can, this is one of those things where the time and effort of DIYing it may seem fun but after any hour you're just fed up).

We also did a unity ceremony where we basically just cooled a supersaturated solution with two seed crystals to form one big crystal. We met for the first time right outside of my chemistry lab in college. We attended a science-only university and both love science. It seemed like a no-brained to do a mini "experiment" for our unity ceremony.

We're opening our ceremony like a movie trailer, with "opening credits" of a side by side montage of childhood home videos

Might not be too unique as I've seen it done before but since my Daddy passed away 6 years ago, I will have pictures of him placed into charms on my bouquet. We are also doing a "joining of two families" element, so my FH will walk down the aisle with both his mother and my mother, and I'm walking down the aisle with FH's father and my Godfather.

We are not religious, and the state we were married in doesn't specify what had to be in the ceremony script. So I wrote the entire thing, with H reviewing/editing. We came up with something we loved that was 100% customized to us. (Some examples of what that means for us: promising to fill our home with laughter and our life with adventure, no mention of "til death do us part" (although there was wording about how marriage should be entered with the intention of it being a lifelong commitment), an untraditional reading, a wine box ceremony with our own twist, etc.)

I'm having my fh dad and my uncle come up and bless our rings.

This may be cheesy to some but it's us. Although not unique but new for us. In addition to our epics we took many pics doing various things in and around town and in our chuch (we are ushers in our church), and made a slideshow for our church monitors while guest arrive and some pictures will have bible quotes pertaining to love and marriage. There will be selected music that matches our "new beginnings" theme. He's a widower and I'm a widow and the slideshow fits us perfectly.

I am walking down the aisle to a song from a band that we went to on our first date. We are doing a version of a wine ceremony, but instead of wine we are using Crown royal since that is our drink. I am sure there will be other stuff in the actual wording of the ceremony, but we haven't even thought about that yet.

Our ceremony will be outdoors, so instead of a unity candle or sand ceremony, we're planning to do a knot tying ceremony. On Etsy, I found a wooden board with a cross on it that has three cords on the shorter beams of the cross. They all meet in the middle, and well braid them to attach to the end of the longer beam. This will match the scripture my dad (our pastor and officiant) will read.

We tied eachothers pinkies with a red string from the Chinese folktale "the red string of fate"

I wrote some of the ceremony music, also we had a remembrance candle for all of our grandparents they are all pretty important people in our lives. We asked SIL to light it.

Our date ended up being St. Patrick's Day because it's what our venue had open. My grandma, who is officiating, is very Irish and connected to her culture, and we are thinking of having her include an Irish blessing.

We're doing the unity cross. We're also including my son. He and FH have an amazing bond. FH wants to say "vows" to him, we're becoming a family and he wants my son to know he's always going to be here, will always love and support him. It's really important to FH to do this, and it makes me love him even more.

We're also writing our own vows. FH is extremely excited about that! Lol

We want to do a tree planting ceremony during ours - since we are both big gardeners and want to be able to have something lasting from our wedding day ceremony.

We're going to do a rose ceremony. I'll give a single stem rose to my Fmil and my FH will give one to my mom.

Fh husband is going to make a small wood "time capsule " box, and during the ceremony we will place in it the German wine we were given on our engagement night, and love letters we will write each other.

We will nail it shut during the ceremony, and open it on our 3 year anniversary.

We've done almost every one of these things, but honestly, my favorite of course is a personalized ceremony with interesting and well sourced readings, the love story, pet blessings, ritual elements like the Tequila or chocolate sharing. I like heritage elements like the handfastings (for some reason, they seem to be very popular again), broom jumps, glass breakings, and anything involving the guests (ring warmings, wishing stones, dads pouring a wine toast, mom's roses).

On the other hand, I think when the focus is on being unique for the sake of being unique, it doesn't work all that well.