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Showing posts with label Ceremony. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ceremony. Show all posts

Monday, May 1, 2017

22 Ideas to Do Instead of a Unity Candle

By On 5:51 PM

When Two Become One:

Sand:


Time Capsule:


A Special Branding:


Plant Your Family Tree:


Wine:

 

Unity Cross:


Hand Binding:


Unity Braid:

Lock and Throw Away The Key:


Feet Washing:


Paint a Picture:


Or Just Pour the Paint on There:


Light a Flying Lantern:


Make a Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich:


Colored Water:


Blended Spices:


Literally Tie the Knot:


Involving the Kids:

Create a Bouquet:


Lots of Sand:
  

Hand prints:


Or Paint Them:


Create a Candy Jar:


Or Have a Puzzle Created:


Sunday, February 12, 2017

When the Forecast Calls for Rain

By On 11:10 AM

"Have a backup plan," they said. "Just in case," they said. Rain may be "good luck" on your wedding day, but it certainly doesn't feel that way when you're planning an outdoor ceremony or pictures. And while you may have a theoretical back up plan, it's hard to change all of your big plans at the last second. Here's how to make rain feel like less of a drag.

Don't Have a "Backup Plan"
Or, in other words, use good weather as your "Backup Plan." That sounds absolutely crazy, I know, but hear me out. If you have an indoor (or at least covered) ceremony that you absolutely love, it won't feel at all like settling if it's raining; and if the weather turns out to be great, it's easy to pull some chairs outside instead! Some ideas would be

  • In front of a large picture or stained glass window
  • Inside a covered, but open park pavilion 
  • Decorate a wall in your reception space to be married in front of, after the ceremony have your planner move the chairs from the ceremony space to around the tables and move your head table in front of the wall. Alternatively, some reception spaces have an entirely different room that you could use for your ceremony.
  • In front of a fireplace - roaring or not!
  • On a set of stairs, either at the bottom or the top!


Sometimes you have to think a little bit out of the box, but I'm sure you can find an indoor reception that you will love just as much as an outdoor alternative! 

Monday, January 23, 2017

Something Different: Ceremony Readings

By On 6:09 PM
Since it was written, no wedding ceremony has been complete without a reading of I Corinthians 13, to the point where almost everyone can quote it in parts. But the Bible offers many other passages that also work well for weddings. What if you're hoping for a non religious or less religious ceremony? There are several options out there for sweet readings too!



Non religious: Love is an Adventure by Pierre Tielhart de Chardin
“Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops like the universe itself only by perpetual discovery. The only right love is that between couples whose passion leads them both, one through the other, to a higher possession of their being. Put your faith in the spirit which dwells between the two of you. You have each offered yourself to the other as a boundless field of understanding, of enrichment, of mutually increased sensibility. You will meet above all by entering into and constantly sharing one another’s thoughts, affections, and dreams. There alone, as you know, in spirit, which is arrived through flesh, you will find no disappointments, no limits. There alone the skies are ever open for your love; there alone lies the great road ahead."

Ecclesiastes: 4:9-12
Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up. Again, if two lie together, they are warm; but how can one be warm alone? And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him.
Non religious: Excerpt from The Bridge Across Forever by Richard Bach
A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. When we feel safe enough to open the locks, our truest selves step out and we can be completely and honestly who we are; we can be loved for who we are and not for who we’re pretending to be. Each unveils the best part of the other. No matter what else goes wrong around us, with that one person we’re safe in our own paradise. Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we’re two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we’ve found the right person. Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.
1 John 4
How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! Love one another. This is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another. This is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us. Those who obey his commands live in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love, does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. In this way, love is made complete among us. We love because he first loved us.

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