Creating A Personal Wedding
Word, Words, Words
Crafting a wedding ceremony can be tons of fun or lots of trouble. It is easy for your marriage celebrant to give you the legal words that have to be utilized for marriages in Australia. The rest is your decision!
How do you make your commitment ceremony to one another yours and not use words that others have used that make you squirm instead of swoon? As a wedding celebrant I give new couples a huge range of poems, requests and other passages and negotiate which (if any) the couple might need to use. Of course some couples have special verses etc that they already feel totally comfortable with and which have special meaning to them and to their family.
Simply inserted but will they go far enough to give that individualized touch?
Why not try asking yourselves one or two intimate questions and use the solutions to put that actually “you” focus in your wedding.
Asking the QueryQuestion
No, I don’t mean the “I do” question, that comes later . I ask my clients to be brave and ask first historic and next some really personal questions.
Where did you first meet? Was it accidental? What were you doing? What did you first like about each other? What pushed you to meet again? These questions set the scene and tell of your past together.
Move to the present and work on the solutions to these. What do you like/love most about one another? What special characteristic do you actually think each of you have? What has been the most wonderful shared experience so far? Answers to these questions show your relationship in an individual and real way.
Of course, you do not have to incorporate any of the above and your marriage celebrant will give you heaps of words to choose from. But perhaps, if you dare to share just a little about yourselves, your ceremony will be unique, meaningful and special to both of you. You’ll have made that personal touch!
Peter Harris is a popular Canberra celebrant, who loves making marriage rites special and touching.
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