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This is Offbeat Bride's archive of Ceremony Advice posts.

How to craft a ceremony that actually reflects you and your partner.

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I wish to propose a hypothesis: A 5th grade science activity can make a meaningful and exciting unity ceremony.

That's what we did for our unity ceremony — we opted to do something more like a unity experiment or unity reaction. When I proposed this idea it was met with lots of "Are you sure?" and "I don't know…"

Our officiant loved the idea, but didn't really understand what we were trying to convey, or even the science behind it. He requested that I send an explanation, so I did. Much more to my surprise he liked it so much he read it as the explanation of the ceremony at our wedding.

Here's how we explained it:

Many of you have written to us, wanting more inspiration for BDSM and/or polyamorous wedding ceremonies. Well, here's a collaring ceremony that combines both!

Our DIY Editor, Jessica, shows us why she thinks asking your photographer to shoot the wedding rehearsal is more than worth it.

If you spied Karen and Ian's program entitled "So You're Going to Sit Through a Wedding" and wanted to know what was inside, we've got it! Check out how they explained the details of the ceremony and reception in a funny and graceful way.

Amanda recently shared with us her husband's incredible vows. They each wrote their own vows, and kept them secret from each other until they read them aloud at the ceremony. Pete had started writing his a couple of weeks before the wedding, but, according to Amanda, "he scrapped his first attempts and wrote something from scratch the day before the wedding. What he said ended up being so perfect and beautiful that I have to share it." And share it we shall!

You might remember Uggh as the person who helped you make your own brooch bouquet. But she's also the person who's gonna help you get your friend to officiate your California wedding.

For our wedding ceremony we are going to do a wine box ceremony, but instead of writing love letters we are putting in a personal token of our love… Where's Waldo!

You saw Rose's "beautiful zombie" wedding invitations, now read the "beautiful zombie, robot, bunnies and frogs" wedding speech that was given by a close friend of theirs. Never has zombies, robots, and cute little animals gotten together to make so much love.