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ceremony script

Trying to write your wedding ceremony script? Or are you acting as an officiant at a friend’s wedding? We’ve got unique, modern, and funny wedding ceremony scripts and vow examples. We also suggest reading Wedding Ceremony 101 to get a feel for the general structure… and then check the examples below to get some inspiration.

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Make them cry: hilarious & tear-jerking wedding vow ideas

We’ve shared lots of advice for writing vows, but our last huge roundup of vow examples was a long time ago… so we worked with readers to gather our favorite wedding vow scripts and examples from their weddings this summer.

We pulled out some of our favorite funny, sweet, sniffle-inducing (I’m not crying, it’s just been raining on my face!), and realistic vows from the pile from which you can be inspired. Tissues are a must when we get to talking about wedding vow ideas, so get ’em ready!

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Short & sweet Halloween wedding ceremony script

This Halloween wedding ceremony script is all about binding two souls for ALL ETERNITY instead of just “til death”…

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Herding cats: wedding rehearsal tips and advice

It’s down to the wire and you’re all ready to start figuring out how the ceremony is going to go down. Maybe you’re lucky enough to have a wedding planner helping, or maybe you’re the point person who will be wrangling the cats. Either way, here are some of our tips for making sure your wedding rehearsal is useful and as stress-free as possible.

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We couldn’t agree who should officiate, so we had a self-uniting wedding

We couldn’t agree on anyone to be our officiant — each person we thought of “belonged” too strongly to me or to my husband; no one belonged enough to both of us. We aren’t religious, so there was no minister in our life, and we didn’t want to bring in someone we didn’t know. So using resources I found here, including Wedding Ceremony 101 and a few wedding ceremony scripts that I collected from my family, I wrote our ceremony, divided up the text between me and my husband, and we officiated our own wedding…

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A unicorn wedding ceremony script with coinflip vows

Our officiant wrote most of our ceremony, and really knocked it out of the park. But my partner and I each picked out a reading, and I took a bunch of Daily Odd Compliments and put them together in a way that flowed. Then we wrote the unity ceremony part, and used a unity ceremony we found here on Offbeat Bride. I’m mostly in love with it, so I want to share it with you…

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Start fresh with this hand-washing unity ceremony

Offbeat Bride reader Adrianne informed us about a special unity ceremony she’s doing with her sweetie. We just had to share it with ALL y’all…