"Two weeks from today, we'll be married!" we said yesterday. I hope everyone is ready for a wedding. Here's the info on our ceremony again:
We've decided to do something a little different with the ceremony, because it's important to us to make our family and friends part of it, too. While we are not Quakers, we will be holding our wedding ceremony as an edited version of a Quaker Friends Meeting, or Quaker ceremony. After we say our promises to each other, guests will have an opportunity to say something nice before we exchange rings. Heartfelt toasts or excerpts from texts are examples of what you might prepare for the ceremony. Messages may be literal or metaphorical, and about anything appropriate to the joy and solemnity of the occasion—love, family, marriage, life, or what you will. In other words, it's kind of like the toast tradition that normally occurs at dinner.
Please keep your message relatively short (no more than a few minutes) so that all those who would like to speak will have a chance to do so without the ceremony going on too long!
See you in two weeks!
