How to Write Your Own Wedding Ceremony: A Complete Guide
When we decided to have a non-officiant friend marry us (remember: anyone can marry you in Montana), I knew it meant that I would have to write our wedding ceremony, or at least contribute heavily to its creation. This was high on my list of “cons” relating to not hiring an officiant, but I very quickly came to enjoy that I had the power to word smith our wedding ceremony in any way I wanted.
If you’re looking to write your own wedding ceremony, I want to share with you what writing our wedding ceremony meant to me, the process I used to write it, some wedding ceremony ideas, and finally, our ceremony text, in case any of these things might inspire one of you to follow the same path.
A writer by trade and a poet at heart, I found that composing the ceremony text gave me not only literal control of our wedding, but also the power to truly imbue our wedding ceremony with our personalities and express the importance of our wedding day to our guests. More than that, writing the ceremony gave me the ability to craft it into a ritual that would work most powerfully to move us (heart, mind, body & soul) into marriage.
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