Build Your Ceremony Menu

I designed this unique and fun menu that allows you to create your own ceremony.
​A ceremony that reflects who you are as a couple. 

Upon booking my services, I send you a link to this very special menu, along with a worksheet so that you can enjoy choosing your own wording for each ceremony element!
Below are the classic elements of a ceremony, and their description. It gives you an idea of the flow of a ceremony. Of course it is perfectly acceptable to have more or less. Your ceremony, your way!

My Build Your Ceremony Menu includes several wording options for each of the ceremony elements listed below.
This menu includes additional options as well, like wording to include children or to acknowledge loves ones who have passed. Maybe you would like to have a special acknowledgement of your mothers or end your ceremony with a tequila toast!
I have wording for all these and more!
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Many couples like to personalize their ceremony further with wording about how they met, why they fell in love with each other, or perhaps they have a special story they like to share. If this is something you would like to include, I have a special
"Get To Know You" questionnaire.

You may like to include a unity element in your ceremony such as: unity candle, sand ceremony, love letter, seashell, wine, tree planting, unity cross, ring warming etc...
 
I am happy to incorporate any religious customs or traditions you would like.

The good news! There is no extra charge to use my special Build Your Ceremony Menu, personalization questionnaire, or include of any special features in your ceremony.

Ceremony Elements and their description: 

  • Participation of parents (optional) Officiant may ask “Who has the honor of presenting this Bride?” or “Who gives this woman to be wedded to this man”? Or “Who supports this couple”? You may use any variation that is best for you or leave it out altogether.

  • Greeting: Welcoming and thank you to the guests -often an acknowledgment of loved ones who have passed but here in spirit will be included

  • Invocation: This is the beginning prayer to “invoke” or ask God to be present and bless this service that is about to begin. For non-religious ceremonies it is an opening blessing or a reading/poem about love and marriage 

  • Charge to the Couple: This is addressed to the couple. It is a preparation for the vows they are about to take. 

  • *Betrothal-Pledge: This is a declaration of intent. You declare in front of your loved ones/ witnesses, that your intent to marry is a matter of your own free will. In your wedding vows you make promises directly to each other.

  • Vows: This is the promise, the pledge that you make to each other, to give yourselves to each other as long as you both shall live. 

  • Exchange of Rings: This starts with a blessing on the rings. The rings are a symbol to pledge faithfulness and fidelity. It is symbolized by the unending circle of a ring. The couple will pledge their faithfulness to each other while exchanging them

  • Prayer or Blessing: This prayer is to ask God to bless this new marriage, this special union of two people. For nonreligious this will be a poem of the blessing of love and marriage

  • *Pronouncement: This is when the Officiant pronounces the couple to be married or joined in a lifelong union. The union is sealed with a kiss.

  • Benediction or Closing Words: This brings the ceremony to an end. It is another blessing.

You may also like to include a favorite poem or reading, read by a guest or myself .


All ceremony elements can be tailored to reflect religious, non-religious, same-sex, or a vow renewal. I am also happy to incorporate any religious customs or traditions you would like, such as breaking of the glass, jumping the broom, hand fasting, etc..