Program/Ceremony Help

pzavecz

I am working on my programs and some questions came to mind:

-Are grandparents supposed to be mentioned in the program and are they supposed to included in the beginning of the ceremony when the parents of the groom and the mother of the bride are being seated?  The program sample I am looking at as a guide doesn't have them so I wasn't sure.  There will only be 1 grandparent at the wedding (FI's).  

-For the beginning, when seating parents/mothers, etc. is there supposed to be a separate song that is different from the processional when the bridal party enters?  What are you using?

-Right now I just have the order of events for the ceremony and don't really have any explanations.  We're doing the program on 1 4x8 card that will be double sided but there's not a whole lot of room to explain a lot.  Are we supposed to put explanations of what certain things in the ceremony are?

-Are you including anything else in your program other than naming the WP and the order of events.  If so, what?  

If anyone wants to share their program wording, that would be helpful too!  

Here is mine...am I missing anything?

The Wedding of Bride & Groom

October Fourteenth 2012

Location

 

Officiant

Name

Parents of the Bride

Names

 

Parents of the Groom

Names

 

Maid of Honor

Name

 

Best Man

Name

 

Bridesmaids

Names

 

Jr. Bridesmaid

Name

 

Groomsmen

Names

 

Flower Girls

Names

 

Ring Bearer

Name

 

Prelude

 

Not sure what to do for this part yet...

Seating of the Grandfather of the Groom?

Seating of the Parents of the Groom

Seating of the Mother of the Bride

Falling Slowly – Vitamin String Quartet

 

Processional

Your Hand in Mine – Explosions in the Sky

 

Bride’s Processional

Can’t Help Falling in Love – Elvis Presley

 

Rose Ceremony

 

Sand Ceremony

 

Filipino Ceremony Traditions

Veil, Cord, and Coin Ceremony

 

Exchange of Vows

 

Exchange of Rings

 

Blessing of the Hand

 

Pronouncement

 

Recessional

Stolen – Dashboard Confessional

ccarrion77

We're just having our grandparents sit with everyone else.  My programs are rather large, so I included a family page that has parents, grandparents, and remembrance section.   My programs are stacked pieces of paper (thanks on the back).  I'm not around them to take a picture, I can later if you like.


ETA:  If that's to blurry and you want to wording let me know and I can email it to you.

xxjen015

We're doing ours on a single sheet of paper that will open and have 4 sides, technically. On the front we have a picture of us as well as a thank you for our guests. Inside we have all of the WP and family mentioned, but no grandparents. FI's can't make it and I only have my grandfather and he just got remarried a couple of years ago and it's a weird situation. We also have the order of events and will list the names of the songs we use (we're doing a separate song for me, possibly for the seating of the parents too from the BP), and the names of the readings. 

We also have information stating the guests should visit our photo booth during the reception and to blow bubbles as we walk out. We will have a memorial section too. I'll see if I can get my mom to send me the latest so I can show you!

ccarrion77

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[QUOTE]We're doing ours on a single sheet of paper that will open and have 4 sides, technically. On the front we have a picture of us as well as a thank you for our guests. Inside we have all of the WP and family mentioned, but no grandparents. FI's can't make it and I only have my grandfather and he just got remarried a couple of years ago and it's a weird situation. We also have the order of events and will list the names of the songs we use (we're doing a separate song for me, possibly for the seating of the parents too from the BP), and the names of the readings.  We also have information stating the guests should visit our photo booth during the reception and to blow bubbles as we walk out. We will have a memorial section too. I'll see if I can get my mom to send me the latest so I can show you!
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Its to late for me to change, but how did you word the bubbles on exit??  We're doing the same.  I just put bubble recessional and I'll have our welcomer tell people.

schnugglebug

This is ours... It has our name, our wedding date, the time
The name of our offciant... then lists our Bridal PArty...
 then says Diner and Reception to follow ceremony

our Master of Cermonies name and DJ's name

then a little note thanking our parents for their love and support and all our friends and family for celebrating this special day with us (written in french)

then our favorite quote at the bottom

*Sometimes in the middle of live, love gives us a fairytale~

simple enough, we printed 50 from Vista print... I know most guests won't keep them, but FI's family is big on scrapbooking, and keepsakes etc.

My son is JrGroomsman in charge of bubbles, we bought a (zillion bubbles machine) at the end of summer clearance last year... and as the offciant says I  now pronounce you man and wife... (My sons' job is to hit the button that turns on the machine) lol

nitecheese

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[QUOTE]Bride’s Processional Can’t Help Falling in Love – Elvis Presley  [/QUOTE]

This is what I'm using too!  As far as the seating goes, you could simply put grandparents in with the rest of the guests and add them to special "thank yous", if there is space?  All of our grandparents have passed away, so they're in the Rememberance section of our program.  Also, (eventhough it is scary over there...) you may want to check the e<span class="st"><font color="#000000">tiquette board?</font></span>

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I have my Dad's Mom so I will have our usher walk her down the aisle

amyelise25

Since I have a small wedding party and short aisle it was recommended by my musicians to just use the same song for everyone walking down the aisle but me.  But if you don't have to do it that way.  If your musicians are just doing random music for when the guests are arriving, than the parents (and grandfather if you choose) can just sit down to that music.  Then the WP can start walking down the aisle to whatever song you want them to walk down towards.

You can choose to do it whatever way you want to do it.  That seems to be the lesson that everyone (minister, music director, church wedding coordinator) keeps trying to drill into me.  There is no right or wrong way for you to do these things.