The Wedding Ceremony Planner: The Essential Guide to the Most Important Part of Your Wedding Day

Invaluable resource for creating your wedding ceremony!

My fiance and I were trying to work on our ceremony at a local Barnes & Noble and I decided to browse through the wedding section. We consider ourselves lucky to have found this book! It proved to be an invaluable resource to help us create our wedding ceremony. It is a very organized, laying out different aspects of a ceremony. Worksheets were provided including a ceremony script outline, rehearsal checklist and day of checklist. Several aspects for a wedding ceremony are described and how to implement them for your own ceremony. There are numerous examples for the different sections of your ceremony including the gathering words, sand/tree ceremony, vows, final blessings, cultural traditions, religious readings etc. We used examples from the book along with suggestions from our officiant. Our vows were taken from two of the vow examples in the book as well. If you are not following a specific religion's ceremony script then I highly recommend checking out this book to help you create your personalized ceremony script. (Married 13 March 2010)

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we bought 7 planning books and this one was by far the best one

being type-A, we bought 7 planning books and put sticky pads and notes in all of them. However, we soon found that this book was the only one we kept referring to.

It's very well structured -- giving you choices for each part of the ceremony. Judith Johnson is a gifted writer and, in the end, it's her writing that sets this book apart from all the others.

She made our wedding truly special and very personalized. Many many people have told us that it was the sweetest and most beautiful wedding they'd ever been to, and we give this book much of the credit for it.

If you're only going to buy one book, buy this one.

Excellent Resource

Incredibly useful guide for planning your own wedding cerremony, with a lot of information and options. Very glad I found this resource.

Needs some work!

Very general. Would have like some more from this book. Lots of samples though.

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A must for everyone planning their own wedding

This book is a must have for couples who are trying to plan their own wedding but are not sure where to start or what order things are done in. It includes the what, when, where, how and why. There are ideas for your wedding, checklists so you are able to make sure everything has gotten done without worrying about it. This will also prepare you for meeting with your wedding officiant and will help you answer the questions he or she will ask you. Also, if you know the answer to some of the topics in this book you will be better prepared for picking the proper location for you wedding. If you know all the aspects you wish to include in your wedding you will be able to book the appropriate location that will allow you to do what you are looking to do. For example, including a unity candle or wine ceremony or certain types of religious ceremonies. There are also several examples of prayers, vows and ring exchanges to help get you started. If you plan on buying any books to help plan your wedding this one should be your first choice. As a wedding officiant I would recommend this book to couples and other officiants as well.

I never write reviews, but this book is FABULOUS

Since I got engaged, I have received many 'hand me down' wedding planning books from my friends. These books although fun to read never provided me any information on the entire ceremony. This book does just that! I love it, and my fiance and I were able to put together our entire ceremony with the guidance of this book. If you are writing your ceremony, this is the only book to use!

Very insightful, supportive, and helpful

We are in the midst of creating and customizing our upcoming wedding ceremony, which has given us mixed emotions. Although we proudly and happily decided to go the non-denominational route, we are waving through the challenges it has posed, coming from a very traditional religious family. Reading this book has helped support and affirm our choice to pave our own spiritual path that is true to our beliefs. Of course the checklists and multiple ceremony passage examples are also extremely helpful-- they are providing us the scaffolding to begin putting together a ceremony that we can truly call our own.

Don't get married without reading this book!

My fiancee and I eloped and had no idea what that entailed. Although it was just the two of us, we really wanted to make our day special. We hadn't realized how important it was to be able to personally choose the passages we wanted read at our ceremony. We hadn't given it much thought until we bought this book and knew that we wanted to customize our ceremony for our needs. Reverend Johnson's book helped us create a ceremony that was meaningful, lovely and memorable. This book is essential for ANYONE getting married - no matter how traditional or atypical your ceremony is. As the title says - it is the most important part of your wedding day. 'The Wedding Ceremony Planner' helped us tremendously.

Excellent clergy resourse

As clergy I find this book is an excellent resourse. After the first meeting, I give the couple a copy of this book to take home. The many options, the many ideas allow them to personalize their service. As well the language is beautiful, the spiritual images are lovely. I enjoy speaking the prayers.

'The Wedding Ceremony Planner' is, by far, one of the best books I have come across for constructing wedding ceremonies!!

This is an excellent resource for clergy and couples. It is well organized, beautifully written and replete with lovely spiritual vows, prayers, rituals, ceremonies and ideas. As a minister who performs many weddings, I will be recommending this book to all my future clients.

This book helped us plan a wonderful ceremony

The Wedding Ceremony Planner, by Judith Johnson, is a wonderful, comprehensive, book that made it easy for us to plan a meaninful and beautiful wedding ceremony. As an older couple, we were fumbling for the words we needed and this book let us find the way.

The Most Complete Guide Out There

I found this ceremony planner to be more useful than any of the internet sites or wedding books that I got a hold of. Rev. Johnson allows the bride and groom to create their own ceremony that refelcts their personal style. There is something for everyone in this book.

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