Ceremony Kickoff Archives ⋆ Unboring!Wedding https://unboringwedding.com/category/ceremony-kickoff/ Wedding Ceremonies That Wow Couples and Thrill Guests! Mon, 26 Jun 2023 11:24:53 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://unboringwedding.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/cropped-Star-pink-and-maroon@5x-2-32x32.png Ceremony Kickoff Archives ⋆ Unboring!Wedding https://unboringwedding.com/category/ceremony-kickoff/ 32 32 191148442 What To Say at a COVID Wedding https://unboringwedding.com/covid-wedding/ https://unboringwedding.com/covid-wedding/#respond Thu, 26 Nov 2020 17:29:10 +0000 https://www.howtoofficiateawedding.ca/?p=531 You take your place at the front, turn to face the wedding guests, and… they’re all wearing masks. They’re spaced 6 feet apart. The room is half empty. You can’t make out any smiles. You can’t pick up on the excitement in the room. The only sign of life you can see is pairs of […]

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]]> https://unboringwedding.com/covid-wedding/feed/ 0 531 Seat the Parents: 4 Options for How and When They Enter in a Wedding Ceremony https://unboringwedding.com/parents-entrance/ https://unboringwedding.com/parents-entrance/#respond Fri, 20 Apr 2018 20:11:47 +0000 https://www.howtoofficiateawedding.ca/?p=337 In my wedding ceremony planning session with the wedding couple, I always ask, “Which parents will be attending the wedding?” (This is how I phrase it to allow for disinvited, estranged, or deceased parents to be omitted without too much discomfort for the couple.) Almost always, there will be at least one parent at the […]

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]]> https://unboringwedding.com/parents-entrance/feed/ 0 337 5 (But Really Just 4) Ways for the Wedding Officiant to Take the Front https://unboringwedding.com/wedding-officiant-entrance/ https://unboringwedding.com/wedding-officiant-entrance/#comments Wed, 11 Apr 2018 17:49:52 +0000 https://www.howtoofficiateawedding.ca/?p=196 Every wedding ceremony has one thing in common: the wedding officiant has to get to the front somehow. When we officiants conduct our wedding ceremony planning session with our couple, we want to succinctly lay out the options for them: “Here’s a few ways we can kick this thing off.” To do that, we’ve gotta be […]

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]]> https://unboringwedding.com/wedding-officiant-entrance/feed/ 5 196 What to Say and How to Start the Ceremony When Officiating a Wedding https://unboringwedding.com/what-to-say-do-start-ceremony/ https://unboringwedding.com/what-to-say-do-start-ceremony/#comments Mon, 16 Oct 2017 20:15:41 +0000 https://www.howtoofficiateawedding.ca/?p=180 You’re officiating a wedding. You make the last check of the five details, walk to the front of the room, turn, see 100+ people looking back at you, and take a breath to start the wedding ceremony. Here’s where our Choose Your Own Adventure begins. (Remember those books? Did I just date myself?) Scenario One: You say, “Dearly beloved, […]

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