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“Your Grand Opening” 5 UNIQUE TIPS TO CREATE A FUN, CREATIVE ANDMEMORABLE CEREMONY PROCESSIONAL Annemarie Juhlian
Annemarie is a Wedding Officiant and Contemporary Minister based in Seattle, Washington. She creates personalized wedding ceremonies for couples of all faiths and traditions and loves working with a couple to create a hugely unique and memorable wedding ceremony.
On your wedding day, go down the aisle in style with a fun, joyful and memorable opening to your wedding ceremony.
Formally known as a "wedding processional", the opening of a wedding ceremony most often sets the tone for the rest of the affair.
So, as you think about what you want and don't want for your big trip down the wedding aisle, here are tips from the "front lines" of all things weddings to help you create and orchestrate a great processional.
1) Do Things Backward! Okay, this will really turn your wedding ceremony upside down - and hopefully in a good way. Instead of having your family and wedding party process down the aisle before the bride, consider a completely new and brilliant processional idea:
Have the Groom escort his mother or parents down the aisle first. Next, it's the Bride! Yes, the bride doesn't go last but is escorted down the aisle by her Father or parents. Once at the front, and when the bride and groom are together and after greeting all parents and immediate family members, the wedding party then processes down the aisle and is greeted at the front by the bride and groom.
This is a complete "non-etiquette" approach to a processional and is off-beat in that the bride and groom end up welcoming and greeting family members and the wedding party. Talk about a very unique processional order and ceremony opening!
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2) Jazz Up Your Processional With Dance Moves: If your wedding ceremony is casual, nontraditional or off-beat, consider having your family members and/or wedding party dance down the aisle.
A few months back, there was a clip on You Tube that featured a wedding party from Minnesota dancing down the aisle - complete with serious artistic moves. If your ceremony is all about raising the joy bar, think about what dance could do to jazz up your wedding processional!
3) Start Your Processional With A Children's Parade: To begin your processional and as music for the seating of family, consider having a group of young children process down the aisle in an informal "music parade" complete with drums, tambourines, shakers and horns.
Once the children are at the front, you could transition to more traditional music for the wedding party and the bride. Talk about starting your wedding with the joyful noise of children!
4) Processional Introductions For Family and Wedding Party: Instead of full-on wedding music for the seating of the family, wedding party and bride, consider this "introduction idea" for your processional.
With music playing quietly in the background, your DJ or MC introduces each family member and/or wedding party member as they begin their trip down the aisle, to the applause of family and friends. For the bride's introduction, and as a surprise for her groom, the DJ would introduce the bride with a few personal words for the groom.
Off-beat, fun and different - consider it!
5) An Interactive "I Love You" Music Intro: Instead of the usual music selections for your processional, what if you and your sweetie work with your DJ ahead of time to create a very special track of music that also includes your own voices and why you love one another. What a surprise to start a wedding ceremony with the voices of an almost married couple on the music sound track!
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