25 Creative Ways to Personalize Your Wedding Ceremony

Reception is not the part of your wedding that is fun and exciting, if you want your Ceremony could also stand out to be a inventive, meaningful and exciting. This is why we’ve enlisted a no. of ideas, taken from planners, that could help you on your ceremony part and these ideas mainly focuses on how you could personalize your ceremony more and more. Ceremony is all about laughs and tears and thus planners know what works the best here. This is why we choose ideas from them on every single possible thing from vows to cocktails and cocktails to the final applause.

Here we’ve got a variety of ideas for everyone and for everything. For the first, you could create a printed program that could be personal for both of you as a couple, you can even include fonts you love, your readings, selected songs that are special for you, fun facts about groomsmen and bridesmaids, etc. You can take help of your sister by letting her read a short extract that you love from any random children’s book. You may love walking down the aisle on your favorite song.

Now it’s the time where you must decide what you love the most, what your partner loves the most and plan your half hour, the best that you can. Keep going to know 25 below listed wedding ceremony ideas to personalize your wedding ceremony that have been tried and are truly the best. 

The Program

Create programs that are full of your various personal information. This personal data could be anything, such as pictures of your engagement, facts that describe your VIP guests, a setup drawn that shows both your adventures together or anything else that describes you or both of you as a couple and sets the mood for the wedding ahead.

The Drink

You can make your ceremony more fun by throwing a cocktail party for an hour before starting the main event. Throwing a cocktail party just as the guests arrives will give time to your guests to mingle with each other and this will also make sure that everyone reaches to your location before you start the main event. This is how nobody misses out.

The Favors

Arrange small favors or gifts at the entrance for all of your guests. Here you could select something common for all or different for men and women, such as you could arrange boutonnieres for men and flower hair clips for women.

The Snacks

Serve your guests bite-sized snacks as they are waiting for a long time or you could  give an idea to all about what’s gonna come up as their meal.

The Pre-Wedding Activities

If you think to have a destination wedding or wedding at a cool place like a scenic mountain top, zoo museum or any other such place, give a chance to your guests to explore the place before your “I Do’s”, let them enjoy the place they have to see all time.

The Thank-Yous

You must make your guests feel special and welcomed, write them personal notes, thanking them and appreciating their efforts and leave these notes at the ceremony entrance to make your guests feel more welcoming. 

The Ring Bearer

Go creative even with your ring bearer. Let your ring bearer carry these on something very unique and attractive, like a memento box or customized personal pillow. And let your little bearer enjoy because they look really cool in the attire they wore.

The Flower Girl

The little ones are actual ones that gives more power and energy to your event and surroundings. Serve even these little ones with some props to make them feel special and make them look special. You can serve them with customized flower crowns or cat purse and many more.

The Bouquets

You can make your bridesmaids to carry bouquets of flowers that you love or once that are special for you or even those that may remind you of someone special.

The Love Notes

Something long, mysterious, that takes times, is what you must do to make it even more fun, exciting and memorable. Write a letter to your fiance before your wedding and make them do the same for you. At the ceremony, don’t exchange these love notes, instead place these notes and a bottle of wine in a box and close it. Make a date or time like you may open the box at your 10th anniversary or etc.

The Processional

Playing meaningful processional music is must at least for your wedding ceremony.

The Walk

For something traditional walk down the aisle with your partner and this will give you a great feeling of starting your life together.

The Runner

Customize a calligraphed runner and put it on the ground for walking over it down the aisle. You can customize this runner in many ways mainly by writing something or the other on it. Such as you could write lyrics of your favorite song, words that are meaningful for you. Even your vows or a ceremony verse.

The Backdrop

A display filled with flowers or the Pacific Ocean to be displayed behind you altar is the best you could do. That will make your back drop pretty best.

The Officiant

Ask a friend to be your officiant if you are not thinking to have a religious wedding.

The Ceremony Structure

Make your guests to sit in a circular formation around the altar. This will make you feel surrounded by love and all your loved ones.

The Vows

Make small diaries like ones in the picture above. Unique idea for your vows is that make your vows of same length and recite them together. Make sure you go together with same page and this will make your vows more romantic and a bit funny.

The Games

If your confused for your vows, create games that will help you include you and your guests and guests unknowingly will help you make your vows. Game like filling in the blanks and others may do well.

The Readings

You could even ask some of your guests to stand up and share their experience or knowledge or anything they have over marriage. But just keep in mind to make sure your guests keep it short and sweet.

The Vows (Pt. II)

Want something that looks sweet to everyone just for both of you. Suggestion is don’t wait for the first dance, make this move while completing your vows. Finishing your vows with cheek touched to cheek can be really very sweet.

The Details

Have a awesome great gift by capturing your moment in custom oil or watercolor painted painting. This gift is the best for a wall in your new home.

The Guests

Step into the crowd and get a hug from your BFF. This way will surely help you to share joy and love.

The Toast(s)

Make your first toast just at the end of the ceremony. Tell your ushers to pass on your favorite drinks. Enjoy your toast as husband and wife for the first time.

The Transition

If you are have walking distance between ceremony and reception, make your guests follow you accompanied with a band and parade from ceremony to reception.

The Exit

Make even your exit awesome and memorable. Give your guests ribbons or sparklers that they could wave as you exit the ceremony. You can even serve guests with tambourines, kazoos, and other noisemakers that will make a great celebration feeling while you exit.

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