Best of the ‘Bee: Hand-Writing Our Wedding Ceremony
Mrs. D’Orsay nominated this post for the Best of the ‘Bee series!
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 ceremony in any way I wanted.
I want to share with you what writing our ceremony meant to me, the process I used to write it, 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 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.
One of the challenges I faced when planning the wedding with Mr. CP was thinking of ways that the day would really help us feel married. After six-plus years of dating, a two-year engagement, and over four years of cohabitation, we’d spent more time together than many young couples we know. At this point in our relationship, marriage no longer seemed like a “big s...
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