Unique aspects to your ceremony?

My grandfather is marrying us (yes he’s ordained and capable of doing so) and my brother is going to sing and play (guitar) our first dance (he’s a singer/song writer and performs professionally, regularly). We also have custom bow ties, checkered flag print (as FH is SUPER into racing). They groomsmen also have matching cufflinks with the various different race flags, FH’s being the finish flag/checkered flag. Just cutesy little things to make our wedding unique to us !

Beer pouring ceremony (brewery wedding), own vows, a reading from Obergefell v. Hodges court case allowing same-sex marriage, and bridal party walking out to an instrumental version of "same love"

- Handfasting variation - we bound our hands ourselves while saying our vows to each other, to represent that our relationship was a work of our own hands, and that our union was our choice, and not the choice of some third-party binding us together.

- Beer sharing - DH and I are super into craft beer, and shared our first glass of beer as part of our ceremony, a variation on the wine ceremony.

H and I both walked down with our parents, we had our nieces and nephews instead of a traditional wedding party, and we had H's dad do a reading in his native language.

@rica Thanks! We wouldn't be having a wedding if those words hadn't been spoken, so it's important to us to include it.

We had a very unique ceremony script that incorporated very personal touches along with tying in some of the nerdy things that we bonded over when we were friends before dating. Our officiant was DH's best friend of 31+ years (yes a friendor, which I know is frowned upon here, but he does it professionally, he told us he wouldn't take no for an answer, we had a contract and we paid him afterwards as a surprise) and he knew us well enough to make it funny and very sentimental.

We had our hands tied (common in Ukrainian weddings). Our mothers did it together, and tied our hands with an embroidered rushnyk my mother bought from Ukraine.

We also more or less wrote the ceremony with our close friend (who officiated), and I found a couple secular readings I really liked. My mother also wanted the guests to sing "mnohaya lita" at the end, but I honestly can't remember if that happened.

Sand ceremony consisted of a pulverized brick from my family's old farmhouse in WI & sand from my H's hometown in ME.

The most personal wedding I've ever attended was my nephew's. He n his wife had just purchased a farmette; but hadn't started their horse boarding business yet. They held their ceremony just outside the barn, the cocktail hour was inside the barn afterwards while guests waited to be shuttled to the reception. Invites had a pic of their barn in the background. Loved it.

To honor my Scottish heritage, we included a Loving Cup ceremony instead of a unity candle/sand. I ordered a personalized quaich with our names and the wedding date and we used a wine that we bought the weekend we got engaged (appropriately named Wedding Wine).

We pinky swore our vows. My favorite movie is Princess Bride so we said as you wish instead of I do and we also had our friend dress up as the priest as do the Mawwage speech! It was awesome. We also had hidden mickeys all over since he proposed at Disney!

Oh we also branded our own board for The unity. The venue has the couple brand their fence and we did that and then had our kids brand their initial on a board