- ISBN13: 9781402203435
- Condition: USED – VERY GOOD
- Notes:
Product Description
Many couples want a spiritual but not a religious ceremony that truly celebrates their unique set of beliefs, values and life circumstances. They want their ceremony, their way but don’t know where to begin or what questions they need to ask. The Wedding Ceremony Planner is a comprehensive and user-friendly guide. It covers everything you need to know to create a beautiful ceremony text and to anticipate and address all the profound and mundane logistics with e… More >>
The Wedding Ceremony Planner: The Essential Guide to the Most Important Part of Your Wedding Day
Tags: Ceremony, ceremony text, couples, Essential, Guide, Important, life circumstances, logistics, Most, Part, Planner, religious ceremony, user friendly guide, Wedding, wedding ceremony, wedding day
#1 by H. Burnopp on April 7, 2010 - 1:35 pm
I found this vendor to be fantastic. The moment I ordered the book, I had already received an e-mail notifying me it was going in the mail. I got it only days later with standard shipping. I would use this vendor again.
Rating: 5 / 5
#2 by k. on April 7, 2010 - 3:26 pm
I found this book to be full of religiously-themed and cheesy/saccharine passages (sorry!). We’re trying to plan a non-religious ceremony and really didn’t find this book helpful at all as far as writing our ceremony. This book was good for convincing us that we needed a rehearsal and for pointing out some procedural things we hadn’t thought of. Otherwise, you could probably find any of the passages included in the book (or something better) elsewhere on the interwebs–this is a good book to use if you haven’t planned anything about your ceremony, but if you’ve already been researching it, I don’t think this will be worth your time (unless you are writing your own religious ceremony, in which case, this could be the book for you).
Rating: 2 / 5
#3 by jennybuttah on April 7, 2010 - 3:28 pm
Highly recommend this book if you wish to write your own wedding ceremony.
It’s a perfect recipe with a great choice of variations. Enjoy!
Rating: 5 / 5
#4 by A. on April 7, 2010 - 3:30 pm
The author says she honors all spiritual traditions, but in the book she basically calls hand fasting and broom jumping stupid and does not include them. The reason she gives for handfasting is because hundreds of years ago it was an engagement ritual. What wedding traditions haven’t changed over time? She obviously just has something against pagans who are the main people to do hand fastings. She also implies they everybody wants a spiritual wedding even if they don’t have a religion. Broom jumping is left out because she thinks it is racist for white people to do them. I guess black people are not supposed to read this book? This book is only meant for people who want a typical ceremony and are christians who are too lazy to go to church, couples who belong to different mainstream religions or people who cannot get married at their church because of a previous divorce. The examples in the book are also boring and generic, I did not find anything in it I could use. It does explain the parts of a ceremony. If you are a pagan or an atheist, or are looking for creative ceremony ideas, look elsewhere.
Rating: 1 / 5
#5 by cjk3717 on April 7, 2010 - 5:11 pm
We used this book as the basis for writing our wedding ceremony. It is very easy to follow, and offers “multiple choice” options for each part of the ceremony. It was a great place to start for writing the ceremony. I am not religious/spiritual and there were still plenty of good choices for us to use. (I know this is not true of every book out there.) My wife(-to-be) and I each went through the book on our own and put small post-its on the selections we liked. Then we went through the post-its together and picked which selections we wanted to use, re-typing each selection and entering it into one document on our computer. We mixed and matched in a lot of cases: A little bit from one choice and a little bit from another, to suit our needs and taste. Also, we personalized the ceremony by adding the story of how we met, along with some text from our officiant’s example ceremony and other sources. We received many compliments about how beautiful (and personal!) the ceremony was. And although I recommend using other sources in addition to this one (and that’s the only reason I give it 4 stars instead of 5), this book provided a very good framework for our ceremony. If you’re going to write your own ceremony and want your ceremony to be tasteful yet follow a familiar format, it’s definitely worth buying. Thank you, Rev. Johnson, PhD!
Rating: 4 / 5