Programs...

PhiSigFly

Driving myself crazy trying to figure out which traditions to include and how to word them. What did you guys do?? We have a large number of non-Jews and don't want too many people to be lost...

jessicabessica

We had the following headers/sections with about a paragraph each:

Ketubah

Bedekin

The Processional (named everyone walking down the aisle)

The Chuppah (also talked about circling)

Erusin/Kiddushin

Nisuin

Yichud

Seudat Mitzvah

In Remembrance

We had a fair number of non-Jewish guests as well.  Do you have Anita Diamant's "The New Jewish Wedding"?  It was a huge help in general, but especially with the program text.  

Musicheals71

I have some extra hard copies of my program, so if you want one, please PM me your mailing address and I would be happy to mail you one!

2dBride

A word document with the entire text of our program can be found at this link.

Starqueg

2dbride, question for you...why did you choose to include the text of all the blessings, along with transliterations and translations?  Did all your guests read them aloud as well?  Or did you just want everyone to know what was going on at any given moment?

LisaBRM

If you post your email I'd be happy to send you a copy of mine.

2dBride

Starqueg:  Our thought was that even our nonJewish guests would be able to figure out where we were in the ceremony, and what was being said, even for the parts that were in Hebrew.  Also, each of the Seven Blessings was said by a different guest.  For those guests who didn't read Hebrew, the rabbi would say the blessing in Hebrew and the guest would say it in English.  Those guests who did read Hebrew would say the blessing in both Hebrew and English.  So having the whole thing there made things less confusing for our nonJewish guests.