Length of Ceremony?

[hfehr1s]

I was wondering how long an initimate ceremony lasts?? We are trying to work out our plans for the big day (what time to eat, change, pictures, etc.) and I didn't know how long the actual ceremony took?? Do you have the option of doing a unity candle or is that only at the WP?? Any info would be greatly appreciated!!! Thanks

 

[melmel]

For an intimate you 'write' your own. When I booked Rev. Day he sent me a packet of ceramonies to choose from or change as I saw fit. Our ceramony was just the standard simple one, so about 15 mins. But if you want the longer one you could have it. You can do a unity candle, but you have weather issues like wind to deal with so you may wanna look into the sand or rose ceramony as other options. But you can deffinatly do the candle one if you want, it's your day, have what you want. Hope this helps.

Melissa

 

[JandJ]

We had Rev. Jack Day too - he was so great! Our ceremony was at Sunrise Terrace at Wilderness Lodge and the cake cutting was inside the Lodge balcony.
For the ceremony, we combined a few different ceremonies from the ones Rev. Jack sent us to make our own and we added a simple rose observance and prayer for my late mom as well.
It was about 15 minutes for the ceremony. The cake cutting and picture taking took about two hours, but they said we could stay longer if we wanted to. We did not do a Unity Candle, but you could definitely include that in your ceremony - again be careful of wind with an outdoor ceremony!

Do you have an officiant picked out? If you can get Rev. Jack he is THE BEST and highly recommended!

 

[karentan]

i had rev jimmy johnson and the ceremony was about 15 minutes. we didnt do a unity candle, but we could have done if we wanted to. our photos and cake cutting reception at the GF took about an hour and a half in total, we didnt have to leave but we didnt have anything left to do so we went to the bar instead!

 

[hiwaygal]

Here's an idea of how the "timeline" went for our 11 am ceremony:

10:30 am - meet EM (ours was Jennifer O'Leary) in the lobby. The photographer and violinist were there with Jennifer. Our officiant, Rev. Kevin Knox, arrived a few minutes later. We spent a few minutes taking some pictures in the Boardwalk Lobby...

11:00 am - walk over to Sea Breeze Point for ceremony. Jennifer told me to stop at a certain point, and took my groom over to his "spot" by the officiant. And the violinist began playing the songs we picked. Then Jennifer came back over to me and told me I could walk "up the aisle". We had to pause for a moment when I got to "center stage" because we called my mom on my cell phone so she could hear the ceremony.

11:30 am - DONE!!! I heard the champagne bottle get popped and the next thing I knew someone was handing me a glass of champagne! WOO-HOO!! It was good! The violinist was still playing a few songs and the photographer was snapping pics. We did the first slice of the cake, then Jennifer cut out some of it so we could feed it to each other. More pictures. The officiant had to go (he had another ceremony), and we didn't dance a "first dance" ('cause DH doesn't dance! LOL!) so the violinist left. We stood around talking to Jennifer and Ty (our photographer) for a few minutes, took a few more pictures and then we left.

Jennifer helped us carry the leftover champagne (and an extra bottle we had bought) and the cake back to our room. And that was it. We changed clothes, and decided to hit MGM. By this time it was just about noon.

 

[kegafford]

Cool thanks for the time line Really helps when planning Lunch afterwards.