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Alternative Wedding Ceremony Ideas & Examples

We’ve got SO much wedding ceremony advice like how to officiate a wedding, tons of wedding ceremony readings, a bazillion wedding ceremony scripts, and even wedding vow examples! We’ve also got info about handfasting and other unity ceremonies. You’ll want to start here: Wedding Ceremony 101.

5 steps to getting over your wedding vow writer’s block

Here’s some solid advice for those of you with vow writer’s block From questions to ask yourself, to considering format, there’s more than likely something in here to help you break through your writer’s block.

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On vow renewals and getting weddinged

Offbeat bride Sophie has written an great post about the struggles and culture behind elopements, vow renewals and getting weddinged.

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How early is “too early” for a morning wedding?

Based on the weddings I’ve featured here on Offbeat Bride, I’m going to go for “dawn” as my answer.

Many readers may remember a sunrise wedding we featureed. This wedding was remarkable for a lot of reasons, but it’s worth noting is that an 8:30am wedding allowed the couple to have essentially an open guestlist, thanks to know that only the most dedicated family would make it that early, combined with the fact that they weren’t feeding everyone a sit-down dinner.

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How to use your straight marriage certificate to make a point about gay marriage

We got our marriage license today! Very exciting, but I floated out of the Probate Court Office and realized that I wanted to let someone know my thoughts on Ohio’s ban of same sex marriage. So I’m planning on turning in this letter with my marriage certificate in the hopes that the powers that be see it and pass it on…