Inspiration Collected Along the Way for Our Outdoor Ceremony!
I would love these all around since the ceremony would be around 5pm
Living and growing up on Cape Cod, I really wanted to avoid the tried and true "Cape Cod, Seashell, Lobster, Nautical" wedding. It's beautiful and I love others but it's really not for us. As a result we choose a very gorgeous historical inn on Cape Cod. The Ceremony will be outside under a chestnut tree and the reception will be inside the inn.
We Officially Have a Ceremony Location!
The Gardens at Dan'l Webster Inn, where we'll have our ceremony
We visited about 20 different places before we finally decided on historical inn on Cape Cod. It's gorgeous and I have spent many Easter Sundays eating there as a child so it has special meaning to me as well. Fiance loves it because it's extremely historical and has that colonial feel to it! We know it's perfect for us!
PLEASE click the photo's to see the picture better and our captions of our plans!
PLEASE click the photo's to see the picture better and our captions of our plans!
Ceremony Readings and Vows
We both have agreed on a non-religious wedding. We will have a justice of the peace, who (preferably) has a sense of humor. Since the ceremony is a maximum of 30 minutes long, we want it to be light hearted but still romantic. We are undecided if we will write our own vows but two readings will be selected by us together to have the brother of the bride and a friend of the bride to read. Some choices will be posted as they arrive.
I LOVE this reading:
(from lovethebeach16 wedding blog)
A Recipe for a Good Marriage – Author Unknown – read by:
The recipe for a good marriage is as follows.
Ingredients:
4 lbs. of love
1 lb. butter of youth
½ lb. of good looks
1 lb. sweet temper
1 lb. blindness of faults
1 lb. of self forgetfulness
1 lb. good wit
1 lb. of good humor
2 tbs. of sweet argument
1 pint of rippling laughter
1 wine glass of common sense
1 oz. modesty
Directions: Put the love, good looks, and sweet temper into a well-furnished home. Beat the butter of youth to a cream and mix well together with the blindness of faults. Stir the pounded wit and good humor into the sweet argument, then add the rippling laughter and common sense. Work everything together until its mixed well. Bake forever, gently.
I LOVE this reading:
(from lovethebeach16 wedding blog)
A Recipe for a Good Marriage – Author Unknown – read by:
The recipe for a good marriage is as follows.
Ingredients:
4 lbs. of love
1 lb. butter of youth
½ lb. of good looks
1 lb. sweet temper
1 lb. blindness of faults
1 lb. of self forgetfulness
1 lb. good wit
1 lb. of good humor
2 tbs. of sweet argument
1 pint of rippling laughter
1 wine glass of common sense
1 oz. modesty
Directions: Put the love, good looks, and sweet temper into a well-furnished home. Beat the butter of youth to a cream and mix well together with the blindness of faults. Stir the pounded wit and good humor into the sweet argument, then add the rippling laughter and common sense. Work everything together until its mixed well. Bake forever, gently.
Wedding Time Capsule
This Idea is from Starmusica and it is hands down my favorite ceremony related idea! I saw her pictures of it and it was so beautiful. I'm going to post her description of it that she provided to me since it's pretty great!
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H didn't have a preference. We knew we didn't want a unity candle or sand because for us and our families- they didn't really apply. Our JP suggested the wine box. What we did was write each other a letter the week of the wedding.
At the ceremony, the JP talked about how the wedding was the start of our life together and we each bring expectations and dreams to our marriage. We want to always remember how we started.. so with that in mind we prepared a letter. On our 15th anniversary (pick a date) we will open the letters, have a glass of wine together and remember how we started. It's basically a time capsule. Our groomsman made a gorgeous winebox that held the bottle, two glasses and the letter. You can also find boxes on etsy.
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H didn't have a preference. We knew we didn't want a unity candle or sand because for us and our families- they didn't really apply. Our JP suggested the wine box. What we did was write each other a letter the week of the wedding.
At the ceremony, the JP talked about how the wedding was the start of our life together and we each bring expectations and dreams to our marriage. We want to always remember how we started.. so with that in mind we prepared a letter. On our 15th anniversary (pick a date) we will open the letters, have a glass of wine together and remember how we started. It's basically a time capsule. Our groomsman made a gorgeous winebox that held the bottle, two glasses and the letter. You can also find boxes on etsy.
