Depending on your culture or religion, you may have several different options when it comes to what kinds of wedding prayers will be offered during your wedding ceremony. Sometimes, the officiant offers some personal and improvised wedding prayers or a specially written wedding prayer calling for the long life and never ending love for the bride and groom. Other wedding customs have the officiant or other person with a role in the wedding ceremony, such as a family member of the bride and groom reading wedding prayers from a special book. A couple may be able to look through the different wedding prayers available to them, such as in one of these special prayer books and choose a prayer for their marriage, or they may write their own wedding prayers and give them to the officiant to read during their wedding ceremony. Still other cultures and religions have the couple offering their own wedding prayers to the Lord for His blessings and favor upon their new marriage. This is what my husband and I did in our wedding ceremony, and I would advise it to anyone.
Setting the Scene
My husband and I are Independent Baptists, and so doing something like this was never really dictated by our culture or religion.
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A little girl in our church the other ran up to me and excitedly told me about the wedding she was in the previous weekend. How she got to ride in the limousine with the her sister (the bride), and stand up at the front of the ceremony with the bridesmaids. It was the kind of excitement where you just want to say everything so fast that time for breathing just seems like too long to wait. She went on to tell me about how her sister had a dance floor at her wedding reception and how she got to dance with the groom and by herself, and with other children who were at the wedding. Imagining her out there jumping around with the kids made me smile, and I asked her if she did the Y.M.C.A. song. She looked confused, then thoughtful and announced that they had never played that song as a part of their wedding reception music. First it confused me, and then it made me smile. The bride must have created a “Do Not Play List” for songs that would play in her wedding.
I have to admit, I’m a huge fan of the Today Show. My husband and I don’t have cable, but I’m able to watch the shows on the Internet and stay up to date with their news stories, special series, and other shows that they broadcast. If you’re not a big Today Show fan, then you probably don’t know that every year they throw a wedding for a lucky couple where America gets to vote and choose everything about the wedding. From the wedding theme to the wedding cake, the rings, honeymoon, wedding dress, and everything else is thrown for the lucky couple. This year the lucky couple got married with a trendy East meets West wedding theme. Personally, I hadn’t ever heard of this particular wedding theme before and I was eager to get online this morning and see just what kinds of decorations and extras they had added in to complete their wedding theme. So, if you’re contemplating an Asian wedding theme, an Eastern wedding theme, or even an East meets West wedding theme, here are some great decorating tips.
There are lots of people out there, in my family especially, who will swear up and down that cupcakes actually taste better than regular larger sized cakes. Personally, I don’t know if they taste better or not, or if it’s just a mental thing about having your own little cake - but I guess it doesn’t matter too much. When my cousin got married a few years ago and wanted a cupcake wedding cake for his groom’s cake, our family wasn’t really surprised at all. It had been my first time seeing a cupcake wedding cake, and it actually went over pretty well. Turns out, that a few years ago, you really didn’t see bakeries offering cupcake wedding cakes as part of their portfolio. That’s because brides just weren’t interested in having cupcake wedding cakes, else they didn’t know that they could be done in the place of regular wedding cakes. But wouldn’t you know it, give it some time and now it seems that cupcake wedding cakes are really where it’s at right now. Here are frequently asked questions about cupcake wedding cakes to help you decide if they are right for you or not.
I must admit, I’m a bit of a traditionalist at heart, and I wanted to have a beautiful traditional wedding. I wanted a huge white wedding dress, my dad to walk me down the aisle, and everything that went along with it. I have to admit though, I I nearly faltered when I started planning for our wedding cakes, and what kind of cake they would be. Let me explain. I love chocolate, and I can’t plain white cake. Really, even birthday cake…if it’s not chocolate than I really don’t want a piece of it. It’s crazy, but I guess it’s a girl thing or something. So, when it came to planning our wedding cake flavors, I really didn’t want a plain white wedding cake. I wanted my husband’s groom cake instead, chocolate cake with chocolate icing and chocolate covered strawberries. My husband, by the way, hates chocolate. It’s a crazy mixed up world we live in, isn’t it? And then I wondered, ar chocolate wedding cakes for brides even possible? Turns out, the answer is YES!
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