Who's having a secular (non-religious) ceremony?

We are having a non-religious ceremony. We are having an officiant perform the ceremony. She has a lot of ceremony's to choose from. We are having 4 short poems read by a good friend of mine, my godmother/aunt, and FH's 2 aunts. We will say our vows and I do's. We're not doing any sort of unity ceremony or special music. We will have music for when our parents and grandparents walk in, bridesmaids, and then me.

I found a site online to help write too- can't recall which- I ended up changing a lot to personalize it- and I'm sure our officiant will put her on words in there- but I've written about a 20 min ceremony... (includes our own vows and family ceremony)

OG what is the site?

We are. I'm not a very religious person and it wasn't important to FH to have a religious ceremony. The only reason we would have had one would be to please family but now that we're planning to get married just the two of us, our officiant, and our photographer it seems a bit pointless to have a religious ceremony. Our unification part will just be the exchanging of the rings. We agreed that we didn't want too much to have to remember or carry around with us. Especially since we're planning to elope in the mountains. We have two potential people in mind for officiating but we're still deciding. No music since it's just us. It'll just be the sounds of nature leading us down the aisle.

We are! Much to the dismay of some of FHs family, we are agnostic and don't feel our wedding is a place to fake our way through any prayers or scripture. There will be no mention of God or religious references in any way.

No poem readings. Our officiant is a retired minister, but specializes in ceremonies without religious context. He came recommended from a friend and is just a sweet old man who happens to be very open minded.

Modern twists- hmmm I'm not sure but we are doing away a lot of the traditional wedding things.

Music - a selection of more alternative/modern love songs during the guest arrival. Played by our dj. Then for the reception it's mostly upbeat and stuff you wanna shake your booty to.

I'm walking down the aisle to "Just like heaven" by the Cure, but an instrumental version by Vitamin String Quartet.

We are! I literally just Googled secular ceremony scripts and put a script together with pieces from a few different ones with some personal touches added. We are also writing our own vows. My uncle is officiating. I'll be walking down the aisle to a strings version of my fav love song that always reminds me of fh. No unity ceremony or anything.

I'll post the site I found tomorrow!! It's on my work computer ??

I highly recommend diyceremony.com. FBIL is marrying us so I'm writing the script and I was just googling examples and kind of pulling from here and there. But then I found this site and the 5 day free workshop, and I am SO glad that I did. I'll keep some of the more traditional elements but it walks you through how to have a very personalized ceremony that the guests actually listen to and enjoy hearing. I'm on day 4 of the workshop and I'm so happy I am doing it this way now. She also has a fb page you can join and ask questions specific to your situation, which is also really helpful.

Hi ladies! sorry for the delay, here is the site that I used to generate our ceremony: https://www.themonastery.org/training/weddings/wedding-ceremony-script

We are having a secular ceremony that will be approximately 15 minutes. Basically, just vows that are prewritten by our officiant. Our officiant is the owner of our venue. I guess you could say we're doing "modern twists" on our ceremony. My MOH doesn't feel comfortable in dresses, so she's wearing a men's tailored suit. My mom is walking me down the aisle (if anyone is at all).

As for music, two of our groomsmen will be playing the violin and guitar. We're both huge Beatles fans and had one of our first conversations over our favorite Beatles songs. We're using "Here, There, and Everywhere", "And I love her", "Here Comes the Sun", "When I'm Sixty-Four", and "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds."

I'm not sure what I will be walking to yet. Lucy is one of my favorites songs but I'm not sure if that's the one to go with...Honestly, I'll probably wait until I can hear the groomsmen play each one before I decide.