Personalising Your Ceremony – Your Perfect Day, Your Way So, you’ve chosen your venue, you’ve given your notice of marriage – what’s next? Let’s turn your attention to your special day, and how you can make it uniquely yours. • Do you want to follow tradition and be given away? You choose.
• Newly married couple announced, and exit (chosen music).
• Do you intend to exchange rings? We have a selection of “Ring Vows”, or you might want to write your own. Who will be your ring bearer/s? • Is there anything else we can do for you? Just ask Of course you may want a simple legal ceremony without much fuss, no problem, it’s not required. See below.
NB Please be aware that if you choose a simple legal ceremony without any additions it will be quite short.
Once you have booked our experienced registrar celebrants our priority is to ensure that your ceremony is as personal to you as possible: (Please also note that civil ceremonies cannot contain any religious elements -including music, readings, poems etc.) • Personal promises to each other: we can give you some suggestions, or maybe you might even like to write some of your own? • Music, a great way to express your personalities, choose pieces to accompany you walking down the aisle, signing the legal paperwork, and at the close of your ceremony. Perhaps you even have some musicians in the family? The choice is yours. • Readings are a wonderful way to involve family and/or close friends. So go ahead, ask one or two to read something during your ceremony. It could be a poem, passage of prose, a quote special to you both, or alternatively just visit our website to look at our favourites: www.westsussex.gov.uk/
What else is included in your ceremony?
The Legal Bit • Legal Vows and Declarations you choose these from our traditional, modern or short vows • Signing of the legal paperwork A Sample Ceremony • Entrance of the Bridal Party (chosen music) • Welcome and Introduction • Giving Away • Reading • Legal Vows (Declaring and Contracting the Marriage) • Personal Chosen Vows • Exchanging of Rings • Reading • Signing the Legal Paperwork (Chosen music) • Presentation of Commemorative Certificate
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www.westsussex.gov.uk/ceremonies • 01243 642122
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