'20 Complete Wedding Ceremonies'

If you are a newly appointed celebrant, or an applicant waiting to be appointed, this book is a good beginning for getting together your resources as a Civil Marriage Celebrant. It will show you how to arrange your ceremony with such material as:-

• symbolic rituals

• vows

• ring ceremonies

• readings

• introductions

• conclusions

• handfasting
• rose ceremony
• candle lighting
• sharing a drink

There are those ceremonies which assume that as the celebrant you will do most of the speaking, and there are those where there is plenty of involvement from other people. You will find a number of:-

• readings for the couple and guests
• blessings and litanies to be lead by the celebrant or a friend

In the matter of vows, there are promises which are:-

• traditional 
• contemporary, including pagan
• vows made by parents to children
• children promising acceptance of a new parent

If you are a busy celebrant, you can offer the ceremonies to your couples just as they are, and allow them to add their own personal favourites should they want to.