We do!
Posted on Sunday, 11th October, 2009 by Anna
Earlier this week Jon and I met up with our minister Kate Hill to discuss our wedding ceremony. Having had a long time to research alternative ceremonies, I had some pretty… interesting ideas about elements we could incorporate, but she was very understanding, much to my relief.
As neither of us follow any particular religious belief system, we decided straight away that it wouldn’t be right for us to get married in a church, and as we both love the countryside and being outdoors, an open air ceremony seemed would be much more fun than crowding everyone into a registry office. In England (unlike Scotland), weddings have to legally be carried out in daylight, in a permanent and licensed structure with a roof which is open to the public - just to make things difficult. So we plan to pop to Brighton Town Hall the day before our “real” ceremony to say the legal bit and get the paperwork done - all very boring, really.
Without giving too much away about the ceremony, we’re incorporating several elements from a variety of traditions and cultures - and making a few cool things up ourselves. Kate is working with us to write a structure to the ceremony and a set of vows that we will say to each other, and we plan on making it all as personal as we can to reflect what the wedding really means to us. It will also be a bit more up to date - none of this archaic giving-away-the-woman rubbish: this is the 21st century, people! We plan on getting our family and friends involved in some way too, so be prepared for that…!
(Photo via Nick Kidd)
