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I need your advice - planning ceremony

JohnnysGirl350 Posted: Aug 28, 2006 12:01 PM+

JohnnysGirl350 MEMBER SINCE: 3/06 TOTAL POSTS : 1072 WEDDING DATE: Sep 15, 2006

Posted: Aug 28, 2006 12:01 PM

I need your advice - planning ceremony

we are having 2 readers and doing unity candle - how should it go?

reader
unity candle
reader
vows

or
unity candle
reader
reader
vows

or something else?

I'm so lost on this....

TIA!!

DUCKS2001 Posted: Aug 28, 2006 12:05 PM+

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Posted: Aug 28, 2006 12:05 PM

Re: I need your advice - planning ceremony

I LIKE THE FIRST ONE. SLIT THE READERS

reenielady Posted: Aug 28, 2006 12:13 PM+

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Posted: Aug 28, 2006 12:13 PM

Re: I need your advice - planning ceremony

Are you doing it in a church?

It usually goes

Reading 1

Reading 2

Vows

Unity candle - the bride and groom don't normally light the candle until they are husband and wife

moonlitee Posted: Aug 28, 2006 12:33 PM+

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Posted: Aug 28, 2006 12:33 PM

Re: I need your advice - planning ceremony

I like the first one. I think spliting up the reading is a good idea...i think that is the part when people get board the most

cindyandkevin Posted: Aug 28, 2006 12:36 PM+

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Posted: Aug 28, 2006 12:36 PM

Re: I need your advice - planning ceremony

Posted by reenielady

Are you doing it in a church?

It usually goes

Reading 1

Reading 2

Vows

Unity candle - the bride and groom don't normally light the candle until they are husband and wife

I agree with this.

JohnnysGirl350 Posted: Aug 28, 2006 12:59 PM+

JohnnysGirl350 MEMBER SINCE: 3/06 TOTAL POSTS : 1072 WEDDING DATE: Sep 15, 2006

Posted: Aug 28, 2006 12:59 PM

Re: I need your advice - planning ceremony

Its not at a church, outside on the water

My concern with doing unity candle last is that the mothers are supposed to light their candles in the beginning. If there is a breeze it might blow them out... Should i have them light theirs later or do the unity candle early....

reenielady Posted: Aug 28, 2006 01:35 PM+

reenielady MEMBER SINCE: 12/05 TOTAL POSTS : 1117 WEDDING DATE: Oct 28, 2006

Posted: Aug 28, 2006 01:35 PM

Re: I need your advice - planning ceremony

Is there anyway you can put something around the tops of the candles to keep them from blowing out? If not I would have the moms light them later on.

cindyandkevin Posted: Aug 28, 2006 01:53 PM+

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Posted: Aug 28, 2006 01:53 PM

Re: I need your advice - planning ceremony

I would have the moms come up and light them later on, then the 2 of you can light the unity candle together.

You're right about the wind outside. It was so windy for our ceremony we couldn't light any of the candles!! So then we did it privately at our dais at the beginning of the reception.

Nikki24591 Posted: Aug 28, 2006 07:33 PM+

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Posted: Aug 28, 2006 07:33 PM

Re: I need your advice - planning ceremony

We had our wedding at land's end and our unity ceremony was after the vows......we actually did a sand ceremony instead because we were worried about candles blowing out.

snydl40 Posted: Aug 28, 2006 07:44 PM+

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Posted: Aug 28, 2006 07:44 PM