Ceremony Ideas/Traditions

BMcLeodTeam · December 2011

A post was recently put up on the Christian Weddings board that got me thinking about this... The ceremony itself...

What kind of ceremony are you having? Traditional/Religious, Unique to the area, Modern
Are you doing any unity type traditions such as the candles, sand, chord of three strands, etc?
Are you having readings? Do you know what readings you plan on having?
Will there be any music/solos?

jtoly · December 2011

Ours will follow Hawaiian traditions with a Lei ceremony. I'm also thinking of adding the sand ceremony as well. It's an added feature for $110 and I get to keep the vase. They also package it for safe travels back home. I didn't talk to FI about it but I may add it to our package as a suprise. We picked out a simple package because we wanted something simple and didn't want to spend too much money on a wedding, as we were both married before, but I keep adding on other things! I wanted something simple but I don't want it to feel like less of a wedding. This time it's forver so I don't want to make it feel less important than my first wedding!

minionlover · December 2011

I think that we are going to do a very simple ceremony. I want to add some personal touches and I would love to do our own vows. I don't think that FI is going to want to do that. I found a book called Words for a Wedding, (I think), last night at Barnes and Noble. I told FI that I wanted it for Christmas. I thought it would be good to put together our own ceremony plus I love reading quotes and things like that!!

murphanzo · December 2011

gotta do "somewhere over the rainbow" on uke! it sounds so beautiful!

We're doing a traditional religious ceremony. I want the old vows that have been said for centuries "with this ring, I thee wed" etc., just something about knowing how old those words are means a lot to me. We'll either be doing a unity candle or a sand frame. We'll have a pianist for the walks down/up the aisle andwon't have any readings.

loramarie03 · December 2011

I think we are going to do the sand ceremony – someone posted a few months ago about how they did it with a picture frame?! I think that’s such a cool idea. I’m not sure how religious our ceremony will be, it will most likely be more modern but I do like the idea of keeping the traditional vows. I also want it to be short and sweet – like 15-20 minutes.

BMcLeodTeam · December 2011

I love hearing about everyone's different ceremony plans

minionlover · December 2011

I really like this idea from the Customs & Traditions board, (copied from the post over there)

"There was and it included this really cute thing a girls priest/pastor said during the ceremony. I don't remember the exact wording but it was somehing like "The e-ring is the promise and the wedding ring is the commitment. You keep the e-ring over wedding ring so the promise holds the commentment in and protects it" He said it after the ring ceremony and had the groom place the e-ring on the brides finger after the wedding ring."

BMcLeodTeam · December 2011

We will be doing a religious ceremony, our Pastor is travelling with us. There will be 2 readings (one religious and one that's secular) although we are still choosing what exactly they will be. We wont' have any music solos at the ceremony (although a friend will be doing a song on his ukelele during the dinner at one point, between speeches).
We aren't sure about the candle/sand/etc but have been leaning towards doing a chord of three strands as of late, we just like what it symbolizes (for more info: clicky)

jtoly · December 2011

Britt a ukelele sounds so so cool. That will be really neat!

BMcLeodTeam · December 2011

The best part was that he was SO excited when we asked him. When he got married he sang a song to his now wife, and he's put a CD together, so he's really good at it too! I figured it would be a fun way to break up speeches, and make it a little more fun for the guests.

Tanq&Tonic · December 2011

Fun! We had a pretty modern ceremony, I'd say. Non-regligious, no readings, no musicians/performances. My best friend got ordained and wrote our entire ceremony herself. She stitched it together using stories about us so it was super personal and just perfect for our style. We also wrote our own vows and personalized the unity ceremony instead of sand. It ran about 15 minutes, and almost 100% personalized.

BMcLeodTeam · December 2011

What did you use instead of sand, if you don't mind my asking. That's the part we are most interested in...

kimmykupcakes · December 2011

We aren't doing anything religious or any readings. It will be short and sweet. Doing a little Hawaiian stuff, lei exchange and the Hawaiian Wedding Song played on steel guitar.

murphanzo · December 2011

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-theme-boards_destination-weddings_ceremony-ideastraditions?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20Theme%20BoardsForum:54Discussion:ed5a5951-cc0b-4eec-8476-8d8482950386Post:483ba8e3-a68a-4c74-aef7-84f6aad42676">Re: Ceremony Ideas/Traditions</a>:
[QUOTE]I think we are going to do the sand ceremony – someone posted a few months ago about how they did it with a picture frame?!
Posted by loramarie03[/QUOTE]

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</div><div>I have this saved in case we do a sand ceremony, I want to do a sand frame</div><div><a href="http://www.sayanythingceramics.com/sand-ceremony-frames.php">http://www.sayanythingceramics.com/sand-ceremony-frames.php</a></div>

Mrsbuttonstobe · December 2011

We are doing a civil ceremony which is done by the town mayor and typically very short, but are personalizing it with two readings. One of the readings will be Pablo Neruda, Sonnet 17...we wanted something sentimental but not overly so...we haven't decided on the other yet. I love the idea of a unity candle but am wavering back and forth over whether to include it or not.

Erinkathleen84 · December 2011

We have an awesome lady in Costa Rica doing our ceremony and getting a guitarist to play. She has incorporated our story a lot in the ceremony and allowed us to pick some readings. We are doing the Apache Wedding Prayer as one of our readings. I love that one. One quote she is going to read is from "A Gift to the Sea". We wanted to incorporate our love for the ocean into the ceremony as well (since it will be on the beach).

We are also doing a sand ceremony. I am still working on the songs that our guitarist will play, but it should be really beautiful !

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