A helpful, inspiring planning guide for brides and grooms, officiants, and wedding consultants. This e-book edition of A Wedding Ceremony to Remember now offers even more choices to create a wedding ceremony that’s both memorable and meaningful. Choose from nine complete ceremonies, a variety of Vows, Readings, Prayers and Blessings, Wedding Traditions, and other Special Touches to design your ceremony and make it uniquely you. In addition, an Order of Service, Program Samples, Diagrams, and Rehearsal and Ceremony Worksheets assist you with all the details—and help make your decisions a piece of cake.

This indispensable wedding planner reminds brides and grooms to enjoy themselves as they prepare for their wedding. New to the sixth edition are new tips, quizzes to help couples identify their personal styles, and suggestions on how and when to compromise in decision-making. The book also points the way to wedding planning tools available on the Web. Details about invitations, flowers, budgeting, etiquette, music, photographers, and apparel are all presented in a way that informs and inspires the bride and groom. Planning a Wedding to Remember, with charts and illustrations, is completely updated for a new generation of engaged couples.

A companion to the popular website APracticalWedding.com and A Practical Wedding Planner, A Practical Wedding helps you sort through the basics to create the wedding you want -- without going broke or crazy in the process. After all, what really matters on your wedding day is not so much how it looked as how it felt. In this refreshing guide, expert Meg Keene shares her secrets to planning a beautiful celebration that reflects your taste and your relationship. You'll discover: The real purpose of engagement (hint: it's not just about the planning) How to pinpoint what matters most to you and your partner DIY-ing your wedding: brilliant or crazy? How to communicate decisions to your family Why that color-coded spreadsheet is actually worth it Wedding Zen can be yours. Meg walks you through everything from choosing a venue to writing vows, complete with stories and advice from women who have been in the trenches: the Team Practical brides. So here's to the joyful wedding, the sensible wedding, the unbelievably fun wedding! A Practical Wedding is your complete guide to getting married with grace.

Seven essays celebrating the beauty of the imperfect marriage. We hear plenty about whether or not to get married, but much less about what it takes to stay married. Clichés around marriage—eternal bliss, domestic harmony, soul mates—leave out the real stuff. After marriage you may still want to sleep with other people. Sometimes your partner will bore the hell out of you. And when stuck paying for your spouse’s mistakes, you might miss being single. In Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give, Ada Calhoun presents an unflinching but also loving portrait of her own marriage, opening a long-overdue conversation about the institution as it truly is: not the happy ending of a love story or a relic doomed by high divorce rates, but the beginning of a challenging new chapter of which “the first twenty years are the hardest.” Calhoun’s funny, poignant personal essays explore the bedrooms of modern coupledom for a nuanced discussion of infidelity, existential anxiety, and the many other obstacles to staying together. Both realistic and openhearted, Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give offers a refreshing new way to think about marriage as a brave, tough, creative decision to stay with another person for the rest of your life. “What a burden,” Calhoun calls marriage, “and what a gift.”

Readers are given all the information they need to write and officiate a personalized and meaningful wedding ceremony, including: The meanings behind each traditional element of a wedding ceremony; A large collection of spiritual and non-spiritual wording examples; Several sample wedding and renewal ceremonies; A worksheet to help you easily compose your ceremony; Ideas for including extra personal touches; Clear information on who can legally perform your ceremony; Instructions for obtaining your marriage license; Steps to becoming ordained; Advice on selecting the right Officiant; Information on filing the paperwork to make your wedding legal.

Of everything that goes into making your wedding day special, it is the ceremony that you can take some control over and that you can ensure the guests remember most. The wedding ceremony, whenever possible, should be an outward expression of feelings of love you and your fiancé have for one another. Can there be any greater opportunity than to assist your chosen wedding officiant in expressing your spiritual feelings and love in your wedding ceremony? It all begins with an assumption that no matter what faith you and your fiancé individually or together follow, regardless of your families' religious traditions - Catholic, Protestant, Jew, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, other faith, or no particular organized faith. you have been blessed with the gift of love. The desire to commit for life should override any other consideration including different faiths, different cultures, previous marriage, or bringing children into the marriage. Nothing should get in the way of you having the wedding ceremony of your dreams. You can make it a special moment to be remembered for a lifetime! What about prerequisites or problems that might impact whether someone feels or thinks you are "fit" for marriage? Unless they are a clergyman or counseling professional who has specific intimate knowledge of you and your fiancé that would preclude them from officiating your marriage, they should commit to observing only what is required by local, state, and federal laws. If your wedding officiant is focused more on their desires than yours - find someone else to officiate for you! As a bride or groom, you are in a position to eliminate the roadblocks that others will place in your way. What you will find after your initial meetings with the officiant is that they may or may not be a major source of relief and comfort to you. When the wedding officiant is focused on you, your needs, desires, and concerns, when they discover that you expect them to remove roadblocks, they will either step up to the plate and serve you or back away and if they do back away, they are doing you a favor. Look, you are in love, and to them, nothing else should matter - and you as their client can show them how true that is. Here are a few issues and questions that wedding officiants can and should resolve for you: Your families are of different religions or you are just spiritual, how do you create a wedding ceremony that will please the families and still honor your feelings? You are Catholic but because of divorce, you cannot get married in the Parish. Can you have a Catholic-style ceremony and have a wedding that your parents will appreciate and be comfortable with? You want a traditional ceremony but the location is nontraditional. What can you do to make this wedding perfect, even if it's in a hotel conference room? Can you have just a short spiritual ceremony but provide all the elements that our guests will expect? You have children that one or both of you are bringing into the marriage. How do you include them in the ceremony? Can you get married now quietly for personal purposes and have the ceremony for your family later? How do you do that? Who do you contact? How can you make your wedding ceremony as Catholic as possible? How do you combine different nontraditional actions, such as: coins, veil, and cording breaking of the glass jumping the broom salt & bread honey & dates drinking a cup of wine table ceremonies What is presented here has been a proven formula for success in over 1,900 weddings - no need to reinvent the wheel! Apply the details of this book and you will be successful in creating the wedding of your dreams.

'Wanna write the wedding ceremony your couple actually wants? Wedding Zero to Ceremony Hero is no wham-bam filing cabinet of canned ceremony scripts for you to copy and paste. It's not a data dump of wedding instructions, either. Wedding Zero to Ceremony Hero is a step-by-step, follow-along process. The goal of this book is to teach you two things at once. First, as you read, you'll be learning all the ins and outs of a wedding ceremony-down to the granular details. Second, at the very same time, you'll be transforming yourself into a guide for your wedding couple. When you get to the end of this book, you'll be able to describe all the moving parts of a wedding ceremony, rock a planning session with your couple, and deliver the script they've always wanted. Are you at Wedding Zero? No problem! Mark Allan Groleau has helped thousands of new officiants and celebrants all over the world get rave reviews from their ceremonies. Now it's your turn. This ... is how you get to Ceremony Hero and write the script your couple has always wanted! "Mark's book not only epitomizes his commitment to his craft, but also demonstrates his desire to help the rest of us overcome our ceremony jitters and serve as officiant with total confidence, reverence, and joy. I met Mark as our two worlds collided-his teaching wedding officiant success, and mine teaching mobile notary and loan signing agent success. It's the perfect marriage of industries and passions! (See what I did there?) What truly bonded us, though, is our mutual passion for teaching others. On both fronts, the work matters! As a wedding officiant, whether your couple asked you as a friend or hired you as a professional, you're being counted on to help make their nuptials special. Give your couples, their guests, and yourself the gift of learning from the best so you can deliver a ceremony they will remember forever. Read this book! In fact, read the whole series!" - Bill Soroka, founder of NotaryCoach.com & author of Sign & Thrive: How to Make Six Figures as a Mobile Notary and Loan Signing Agent "More and more, modern couples are enlisting the help of a dear friend or relative to marry them. To pronounce them married. It's a big job, and you're the chosen one for the job of officiant or celebrant. You need this guide! In Mark Allan Groleau, you have an expert officiant guiding you step by step as you craft and execute a modern wedding ceremony. Seriously, we call on Mark quite often and we cannot sing his praises enough. If we were getting married, we'd want Mark to marry us! Whether you are a layman or a professional, this will help you be the best damn wedding officiant you can be. So go ahead - marry your friends! We believe in you, and we believe in Mark's process." - Christy Matthews & Michelle Martinez, hosts/producers of The Big Wedding Planning Podcast & The Big Wedding Planning Master Class