Your Wedding Ceremony - Orders of Service, Vows, Readings and More

Many couples today are choosing to have a non-religious wedding ceremony, or be married by a friend or family member. Yet an important role of the officiant is to give you guidance in crafting your wedding ceremony, often following a predetermined format. If you are going the DIY route, here's advice on creating a memorable and personal...

A wedding ceremony checklist designed to help you keep track of all the things you'll need, including

If you're writing your own wedding ceremony, it can be hard to know where to begin. After all, there are a lot of resources for writing your vows, but relatively few available for writing your own wedding ceremony. This example is a particularly beautiful one which incorporates ritual and tradition. Feel free to adapt it to meet your needs and...

The community vow of "speak now or forever hold your peace" is a traditional part of many wedding ceremonies. But if you can, rather than asking this question in the negative, I suggest asking your guests to help sustain your marriage and love for one another, with a community vow of support.

If you've chosen to get married in front of family and friends, rather than eloping, it's because their witnessing your nuptials is important to you. But how do you make them a meaningful part of your wedding ceremony? Here are several ideas:

Having a Unity Candle Ceremony at your wedding is a beatiful way to demonstrate the joining of two families. But from a sand ceremony to a wine pouring, there are many other unity traditions for weddings. What are you planning?

Finding the right person to marry you is an important decision – after all, they will have a huge influence on the tone of the ceremony. Here are tips for finding a religious or secular person to marry you and questions to ask them.

One of the grandest part of any wedding ceremony is when the bridal party makes its entrance. The air is full of anticipation, and the groom anxiously awaits his first glimpse of his bride in her wedding dress. But do you know what order your bridal party should walk in? And who escorts the mother of the bride? Here is a guide to different types...

They didn't write their own vows, but Prince William and Kate still managed to make their wedding personal by writing their own wedding prayer.

Children in a wedding can be adorable and unpredictable. If you have children from a previous relationship, or young friends or family members you'd like to include in your wedding, read this guide to roles they can play, and ways to make them comfortable.

Looking to include a unity candle ceremony or other unity tradition in your wedding? Here is a list of the many varieties of traditions out there, and how to include them in your wedding.

Wedding programs are one of those little details that add that extra something to your big day. Here is information on what should be included in a wedding program, and how to decide if you should have a wedding program.

Are you an interfaith, non-practicing or partially agnostic engaged couple? If you're trying to decide whether or not to have a religious wedding, here are some considerations, and possible solutions.

Are you a wedding guest worried about attending a religious ceremony? Do you not know what to expect? How will you deal with the laws of your own religion? Here's the answer to all these questions and more.

At a church wedding, the ushers often will ask guests, "Bride's side or groom's side?" But which side is which? And why?

Having a Unity Candle Ceremony at your wedding is a beatiful way to demonstrate the joining of two families. But from a sand ceremony to a wine pouring, there are many other unity traditions for weddings. What are you planning?

Planning to get remarried? Planning a wedding for your second marriage can be an opportunity to improve any mistakes you made the first time - including the person you married! But there are some new rules of etiquette and sticky situations to deal with. Here's a guide to everything about second weddings.