6 tricks for more personalized vows at your wedding
We’ve shared lots of tips on how to write your wedding vows so today we’re going to focus on where to find inspiration to make SUPER personalized vows.
5 secrets to officiating your friend’s wedding
I recently officiated a wedding for two of my dearest friends. I had never officiated a wedding before. It was not easy, but I’m proud of the result. I thought that some other first-time officiant may like to hear about my writing process.
Ring warmings and geeky call-outs: 12 ways to include your guests in your ceremony
Including your guests meaningfully in your ceremony can lead to moments of truly tearful poignancy. From ring warmings to flower circles, and Mad-Libs to Lord of the Rings jokes, we’ve compiled some of our sweetest, funniest, and most favorite ways to include your guests in your ceremony and vows. All together now…
Our gender-neutral Pagan wedding ceremony script, complete with ceremony materials list!
With a bit of help from the internet (Offbeat Bride especially!), a few books, and my personal experience writing atheistic pagan sabbat rituals, we wrote our ceremony script ourselves. It was an undertaking, but ultimately we came up with something that we absolutely loved. Since we got so much help online, we thought it would be great to share it with everyone! Following is our complete script…
You may now kiss each other
Every once in a while, a couple comes up with a wedding alternative I’ve just never thought of before. Lo and behold, Dagny and Charlie came up with this super simple twist to a traditional ceremony script:
“It was also important to me that our first kiss as a married couple was something that both of us entered into. Traditionally, people say, ‘You may now kiss the bride.’ We opted instead for, ‘You may now kiss each other.’ For many, it seemed like a silly, small thing, but for me it was a big deal.”
Geeky wedding vows – 10 examples from REAL weddings!
Fellow gamers, book-lovers, pop culture fiends, Potterphiles, Browncoats, Tolkien fans, Whovians, and zombie apocalypse fighters, and all other forms of geekdom in need of nerd-tinged, geeky wedding vows… these reader-submitted vows will save the princess in your castle. It’s dangerous to write vows alone… take these.