I quite like this circular setup of chairs for the ceremony:
I think it would help decrease the 'this is a show for your teary entertainment' feeling and ramp up the sense of 'we want to be surrounded and supported by our loved ones' instead. I've written previously about my hesitation for the whole big reveal and walking down an aisle thing, but it's a little hard to picture the logistics of ending up at the center without an aisle. I can't quite tell how they did it here--did they have to walk all the way around in a spiral? That would go in the parade territory that we want to be avoiding here.
Ooo, maybe two semi-circles of chairs with an aisle going through the entire thing, and each of us walking towards the center and meeting in the middle?
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- One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding
/ Rebecca Mead
- I Do but I Don’t: Walking Down the Aisle without Losing Your Mind
your mind / Kamy Wicoff.
- Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered Marriage
/ Stephanie Coontz
- Ten Lessons to Transform Your Marriage: America's Love Lab Experts Share Their Strategies for Strengthening Your Relationship
/ the Gottmans
- Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage / Elizabeth Gilbert
- This Is Not The Story You Think It Is: A Season of Unlikely Happiness
/ Laura Munson
- The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth About Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage
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- The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family
/ Dan Savage
- Offbeat Bride: Creative Alternatives for Independent Brides
/ Ariel Meadow Stallings
- The Conscious Bride: Women Unveil Their True Feelings About Getting Hitched
/ Sheryl Paul
- The DIY Wedding: Celebrate Your Day Your Way
/ Kelly Bare
- For Better: The Science of a Good Marriage
/ Tara Parker-Pope (only the first few chapters, not recommended)
6 comments:
Love it! We're doing a circular ceremony, but our guests are standing. You bring up a good point... how did they get in there? I hope they aren't trapped!
We haven't exactly figured out how we're going to do the ceremony, but we've agreed there will be no big reveal and no long procession. We'd like to join our guests for drinks when they arrive before the ceremony. I think our celebrant will round everyone up and we'll walk to an open space in the park and start the ceremony. Our main question is... what to do with the bridal party???
If it would have worked in our venue - I would have totally been up for this. Everyone has a good view, you feel surrounded by love. AWESOME!
it looks like they carved a little path there in the right- but i like your idea.
Will try to take Chihuahua glasses photo this weekend, stay tuned!
I'm feeling this!
Oh man, I am on board with this in every single way. No aisle, semi-circle of chairs. It's not a damn theater production.
It looks like they may have entered through one of the gaps in the chairs to the righthand side. I like the idea of just having a space in the chairs to move through -- since it's so short, it can't even be classified as an aisle.
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