Images by Alexa Loy
 
G and I decided to hold our wedding ceremony in the woods. I looked into various woodland outdoor legal ceremonies locally but budget wise it just wasn’t going to work. So we decided to do the legal ceremony in the morning and a woodland ceremony in the afternoon. This is something I’d always refused to think about. But in the end it just made sense. We’d think of the registry office as a legal contract and focus on making our ceremony really personal. Cue the hand written personal vows we wrote and said to one another.
It really is a daunting feeling when you sit down and need to think of those promises and words you want to mean so much. That blank page stares at you while you can’t seem to shake more traditional vows from your mind. So what did we do" Turn to trusty google of course. We  searched out basic ideas and the order of the ceremony itself. We had no officiant so we simply read them from a special notebook I have. Whether you have an officiant or not, I wanted to assist in this tricky but oh so important task today. Here goes.
 
The Intro
 
Here you will want to welcome your guests and the couple too of course. You could script this for your officiant or they may like to come up with a surprise introduction for you.
You could talk about the setting, the couple’s back story, the wedding party and the plans for the day ahead.
 
Readings & Music
 
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