General Wedding Ceremony Elements Archives ⋆ Unboring!Wedding https://unboringwedding.com/category/ceremony-elements/ Wedding Ceremonies That Wow Couples and Thrill Guests! Tue, 24 Sep 2024 01:22:22 +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 General Wedding Ceremony Elements Archives ⋆ Unboring!Wedding https://unboringwedding.com/category/ceremony-elements/ 32 32 191148442 How to Commemorate Lost or Absent Loved Ones During the Wedding Ceremony https://unboringwedding.com/how-to-commemorate-lost-or-absent-loved-one-during-the-wedding-ceremony/ Mon, 09 Sep 2024 12:25:16 +0000 https://unboringwedding.com/?p=2015 Wedding ceremonies are just like life: we’re often celebrating great joy while at the very same time grieving a great loss.  But ultimately we’re faced with a choice: do we ignore the loss, or do we acknowledge it? This is the choice our wedding couples face as they plan their wedding ceremony. They may be […]

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]]> 2015 The Wedding Officiant’s Formula for Every Unity Ritual https://unboringwedding.com/the-wedding-officiants-formula-for-every-unity-ritual/ https://unboringwedding.com/the-wedding-officiants-formula-for-every-unity-ritual/#respond Fri, 02 Aug 2024 17:30:28 +0000 https://unboringwedding.com/?p=2074 A unity ritual is a familiar element of any wedding ceremony. You might have heard of the more common ones like handfasting or sand mixing. The tricky part for wedding officiants is that there are dozens – maybe hundreds – of unity rituals. And your couple might ask you to include any number of them […]

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]]> https://unboringwedding.com/the-wedding-officiants-formula-for-every-unity-ritual/feed/ 0 2074 How To Transition From One Wedding Ceremony Element To The Next https://unboringwedding.com/how-to-transition-from-one-wedding-ceremony-element-to-the-next/ https://unboringwedding.com/how-to-transition-from-one-wedding-ceremony-element-to-the-next/#respond Tue, 02 Jul 2024 18:30:11 +0000 https://unboringwedding.com/?p=2016 Wedding officiants have one major concern when writing the ceremony: “What do I say?” And it’s not just the speech or the vows or other ceremony elements. Officiants just like you are worried about how to flow from one part of the ceremony to the next. This comes from our tendency to think of the […]

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]]> https://unboringwedding.com/how-to-transition-from-one-wedding-ceremony-element-to-the-next/feed/ 0 2016 5 Questions to Ask Your Same-Sex Couple About Their Wedding Ceremony https://unboringwedding.com/5-questions-sex-couple-wedding-ceremony/ https://unboringwedding.com/5-questions-sex-couple-wedding-ceremony/#respond Mon, 12 Jun 2023 09:04:41 +0000 https://unboringwedding.com/?p=1844 Even if you’ve officiated five hundred wedding ceremonies, the very first time a same-sex couple asks you to officiate their wedding ceremony, it can feel like your first time all over again. I hear it from experienced officiants all the time: “What’s different about a same-sex couple’s wedding ceremony? What do I need to know? […]

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]]> https://unboringwedding.com/5-questions-sex-couple-wedding-ceremony/feed/ 0 1844 How to Choose the Best Songs for The Wedding Ceremony https://unboringwedding.com/best-songs-for-wedding-ceremony/ https://unboringwedding.com/best-songs-for-wedding-ceremony/#respond Thu, 01 Jun 2023 14:17:43 +0000 https://unboringwedding.com/?p=1827 The right music is crucial for setting the tone in your wedding ceremony. There are lots of feels in a wedding ceremony, and the right songs complement the emotions of the moment. The wrong songs? Well… the opposite. If you don’t believe me, just go watch those YouTube videos where someone swapped out John Williams’ […]

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]]> https://unboringwedding.com/best-songs-for-wedding-ceremony/feed/ 0 1827 How To Officiate a Wedding Ceremony For the First Time https://unboringwedding.com/how-to-officiate-a-wedding-for-the-first-time/ https://unboringwedding.com/how-to-officiate-a-wedding-for-the-first-time/#respond Fri, 10 Mar 2023 15:59:51 +0000 https://unboringwedding.com/?p=1709  You’ve been asked to officiate a wedding ceremony for the first time. Your first reaction? You feel honoured! Now that you’re sitting down to actually figure it out, it’s overwhelming. Maybe you feel pretty good in front of a crowd. But a wedding? It’s all too much. I got you. There are a lot […]

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]]> https://unboringwedding.com/how-to-officiate-a-wedding-for-the-first-time/feed/ 0 1709 How (And Why!) to End the Wedding Ceremony with a Grand Finale https://unboringwedding.com/grand-finale/ https://unboringwedding.com/grand-finale/#respond Wed, 09 Mar 2022 14:38:02 +0000 https://unboringwedding.com/?p=1158 The very best ending to a wedding ceremony is a grand finale. Everyone is on their feet. The officiant presents the couple. The music starts. The couple head up the aisle to a symphony of overjoyed laughter and raucous cheers from their guests! But that’s not just going to happen on its own. There’s a […]

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]]> https://unboringwedding.com/grand-finale/feed/ 0 1158 The 3 Times to Get Out of the Way in a Wedding Ceremony https://unboringwedding.com/get-out-of-the-way/ https://unboringwedding.com/get-out-of-the-way/#respond Thu, 10 Jun 2021 18:19:35 +0000 https://unboringwedding.com/?p=1076 The post The 3 Times to Get Out of the Way in a Wedding Ceremony appeared first on Unboring!Wedding.

]]> https://unboringwedding.com/get-out-of-the-way/feed/ 0 1076 8 Steps for a Simple and Meaningful Wedding Ring Exchange https://unboringwedding.com/wedding-ring-exchange/ https://unboringwedding.com/wedding-ring-exchange/#comments Wed, 13 Nov 2019 18:43:52 +0000 http://www.howtoofficiateawedding.ca/?p=115 Just about every contemporary wedding ceremony has a part where the couple exchanges wedding rings. This has been going on literally for ages – the earliest wedding ring exchanges were happening in Egypt over 3000 years ago when couples would exchange rings made of hemp or reeds, and then other cultures improved on that with […]

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]]> https://unboringwedding.com/wedding-ring-exchange/feed/ 2 115 Wedding Ceremony Reading Samples (And What To Do Instead!) https://unboringwedding.com/wedding-ceremony-readings/ https://unboringwedding.com/wedding-ceremony-readings/#comments Thu, 10 Jan 2019 16:48:06 +0000 https://www.howtoofficiateawedding.ca/?p=381 The post Wedding Ceremony Reading Samples (And What To Do Instead!) appeared first on Unboring!Wedding.

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