Say the words without having to read them

genfoley

Folks

You know during a civil ceremony, the part where you are giving your partner the ring, well that part of it can amount to a few sentences depending on your preference for the wording, do you have to rhyme it off or can you read from a page or does the registrar say it and then you repeat it ? I know you repeat the legal stuff after the registrar....just wondering - dont fancy having to learn the lines and then forget them with nerves on the day :eek:

Cellygirl

I was at a civil ceremony last summer and after the legal bit the couple had written their own vows (no religious connotations, just some personal words of love and happiness) and they just read them, they had the paper there. Now, they knew them well enough if you get me, so it wasn't that they were reading and not looking at each other, the piece of paper was just there as a back up in the case of nerves!

But yeah, the paper was there, they read them out, no worries.

Actually they had done up an order of service and the personal vows were on that too, so we could all read along!

genfoley

ahhh thanks for that.......hmmmm order of service, hadnt thought of that :rolleyes:

Cellygirl

Yeah, it was very short, just one A4 page folded in half, if you know what I mean?

On one side it had the bridal party names, then the legal vows and then the other side had their personal vows and a 'thanks to everyone for coming' sort of message.

They did it in their bridal colours and it was really pretty and nice. Just a keepsake for the parents and older relatives really, but just cost them a packet of nice cream paper and a couple of hours putting it together and printing it off.

They did it up on Word on their own computer, so if you wanted to you could do it fairly handy like.

I'm having a church wedding but not doing full Mass booklets, just a two page job, save a few trees and save me from tearing my hair out!