For your ceremony to be legal, it must include the following:

• Statement of Intent

• Sharing of Vows

• Marriage Licence Signing

• Declaration by a Registered Marriage Officiant​

 

Below you will find the order of a traditional wedding ceremony.

If you include all of the ceremony elements, your ceremony will be approximately 30 minutes in length.  Other than the elements listed above, everything else is optional and can be included in your ceremony if you choose to.

 

Musical Prelude as Guests are arriving

Processional

Welcome & Opening Words

Family & Guest Affirmations

Prayer or Reading

Message to the Couple

Statement of Intent

Vow Exchange

Ring Exchange

Second Reading

Signing of the Licence

Special Ceremony

Announcements

Closing Words or Prayer

Declaration (you can also be declared before the signing of the licence)

Kiss

Presentation as a Married Couple

Recessional

Musical Postlude as Guests leave the Ceremony