Ceremony help!

beach11

I need some help...
My job has temporally re-assigned me to northern MA for work for an unknown period of time (first it was a week, then 3, then July 10th, now July 31st)  I am working 7 days a week including holidays.  Good money, but bad when your wedding is August 14th! 
FI & I's original plan was to write our own ceremony & vows, but now with me working crazy non-stop hours, I know we don't have the time for that.  Can anyone recommend a website, book, anything to help us come up with a ceremony & vows?  I have tried google, and usually google is my friend, but everything that I have found is a religious ceremony and we don't want that. 
I really thought we were doing great with the planning before this re-assignment, I feel like I am so behind now!  I have 51 days to go!
TIA

crushme8602

We listened/ wrote down the sweet, love songs we liked when they came on our ipod, and then looked up the lyrics and wrote our vows from them.

LFK

Have you tried contacting the person officiating your wedding to see if they have any sample ceremonies you can use?  Maybe you can start there. 

Vikki2pay

I pretty much wrote my own ceremony (with the help of the internet of course) so if you want some inspiration our vows are in my planning bio under ceremony.

akulaji

I would definitely talk to your officiant first.  Ours gave us a slew of examples and explained to us what the state of CT requires you have in your ceremonoy.... yes there are required elements!  We wrote ours, but used the basic form from one of the examples she gave us.  We also left it up to the officiant what she would say, but gave her the 'feel' and basic topics that we wanted covered (i.e. in the closing words we wanted blessings, etc).  We then wrote the declaration (I do's) and vows.  Basically, we contemplated what qualities we wanted in our marriage and put that into words.

Agey310

Try these websites for some help as well:

http://www.myweddingvows.com/non-traditional-wedding-vows/i-love-you-you-are-my-best-friend

http://www.plan-your-wedding-ceremony.com/wedding-ceremony-readings.html

I found them to be very helpful and created our whole ceremony using these sites. Also, my justice of the peace gave me some basic guidelines which I used to format the entire thing.

Good luck

beach11

Thanks ladies!  We have a call into out JP but he is on vacation for the week!   I will defiantly check these out!!

starrbuk13

i have a word doc that our JP gave us to pick all of our vows/etc from. if you PM me your email address i'll send it your way!