The best wedding ceremony ideas

In every single wedding ceremony I oversee, I’m always planning for it to be the most unique, personal and enjoyable wedding ceremony I could perform. Here’s some of my recent ideas you can steal for your wedding!

1. Get your closest friends and family involved in the wedding ceremony, make it a community event. Involve them in the ceremony, not just as groomsmen or bridesmaids, but ask them to perform a ceremonial aspect of the ceremony or sing a song, perhaps even a poem or a scripture reading. It’s a creative way of honouring their commitment to the commitment that the bride and groom are making.
2. Turn your officiant or celebrant around and you can face the guests instead of facing away from the guests.
3. Have a man of honor or a best girl. There’s no rules!
4. Have your guests sit or even stand in a circle around you as you are married.
5. Go without an official bridal party and tell everyone invited that they are your bridal party. That way you save your best friends a few hundred dollars each.
6. Write your own vows, Britt and I did!
7. Have a ring warming. (What’s a ring warming you ask? There are different versions of this, but generally the rings are placed in a small bag and are passed around to each guest prior to the ring exchange. Each guest blesses the rings or says a prayer.)
8. Bridesmaids can carry something other than flowers, if flowers aren’t a special object in your or their life. A coffee, wine, chocolate, book, whatever?
9. Choose a aisle processional song that is very special to both of you.
10. Honour either or both of your cultures with a prayer, poem or song from your heritage.
11. Hire a professional musician to sing a song of your choosing.
12. Leave the ceremony to spend a few moments in private together, instead of walking into the crowd of guests. It’s based off a Jewish tradition, but you could make it yours.
13. Hold your wedding ceremony in a place that’s special to you both, underwater, in the air, in a cafe or a restaurant. You can choose!
14. Don’t say I do. You don’t have to, in fact there are only a few things you have to say.
15. Ask your officiant or celebrant to name guests subtly or secretly in the message. It might be a nice way of subtly honouring them.
16. Sit all of the guests on hay bales. Or choose other odd or special seats.

What are some weird, wonderful, personal or unique wedding ceremony ideas you’ve thought of or seen? Comment below or email me. The feature photo for this post is of Khya and Ben at Midginbill Hill in Australia’s Tweed Valley, taken by Malin at Love Is A Place Photography.

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Josh Withers

Hi, I’m a gadget-obsessed-nerd and Foo Fighters fan living on the Gold Coast with Britt, my awesome wife of two years, and we have the great honour of travelling this vast planet celebrating that marvellous union called marriage. We’re just two kids in love interested in other kids in love. That’s my story, what’s yours?