Just a quick summary: we're having an outdoor ceremony and will likely be married by a Catholic priest (if possible) but would like to write our own vows and include a unity candle ceremony.
I'm unfamiliar with the traditions of a Catholic ceremony though (i.e. length of the ceremony, apparently there's a prayer??) and even more unfamiliar with traditions of Hispanic weddings (Cuban and/or Puerto Rican to be exact). We want to incorporate some cultural traditions because it's fun, but not be sooo traditional. Especially since we're mixed as it is (his family is Presbyterian and mostly European white and Irish with a bunch of other stuff thrown in there). The cultural stuff is more important to me than him (his whole family seems to be that way), but we're trying to figure out how to incorporate stuff from his lineage too. So far he's fine with the traditions from my family in the ceremony as it stands.
Leave it where it is or do research?