Writing your Own Script

We had a friend officiate and wrote our own script. We sent it to him a few weeks in advance, so he could get comfortable with it, and we had asked him to write his own intro (saying how awesome we are LOL). A week or so before the wedding, he came over to run through it with us, and we made some tweaks once we did it all out loud together. He had his own printout at the rehearsal, and we had also brought one, in a leather padfolio that he could hold up at the microphone. We didn't have a podium or anything else for him to stand behind, and another friend who did something similar when she got married a year ago said it looked funny in pictures for the officiant to just be holding pieces of paper.

Side note...we also wrote our own vows, and those I printed out and glued inside these pretty note cards I had, so we could read them, but they also didn't look like holding a piece of paper.

View Quoted Comment Portfolio is a good idea! Idk why I couldn’t think of anything on my own lol. I was thinking the same about having him hold paper may look weird. I want to be able to frame our vows so cards would work great for that too. Thank you!

I emailed it to my pastor and he made changes. After that he just printed it himself

My girlfriend was our officiant and she wrote the ceremony and then sent it to us for feedback. It was beautiful and we made almost zero changes. Once she finished with it she printed it and carried it in a cute little floral portfolio. We also gave her our handwritten vows to hold until it was time to read them.

We didn’t write our own and hired an officiant, but, she printed her scripts out and clips them into a binder— that way they’re secure, she has something to hold on to, it’s easy to flip pages, and it looks a little classier than folded papers. She asked us our color scheme and chose the binder to match. Super cheap simple solution without going too crazy hah!

Here we go. Here’s a pic you can kinda see it in (haha tried to magnify it a bit) just one of those super cheap simple plastic binders you can get at staples/Walmart/target but much more aesthetically pleasing than paper!

My husband's cousin officiated and we sent him our vows and ceremony readings a couple of weeks before the wedding and he printed them and had them on him for us to use. I have seen people put them into a little book too. Whatever will work for you.

I plan on making a little booklet for our friend who is officiating! We plan on reading our vows privately to each other during our first look and then reciting the normal ones during the ceremony. We're giving him free reign on everything and we'll tweak as we go!