Wedding Traditions & Ceremony Ideas

Expert wedding planning tips & inspiration

Inside Weddings shares the latest wedding ideas for your wedding ceremony décor, sites and locations for your vow exchange, wedding ceremony traditions, and more!

Ceremony & Traditions

7 Steps to Planning a Multicultural Wedding

Get tips on combining your families' traditions on the big day.

Marriage is not only about bringing two people together, but also joining their families. When the newlyweds come from different backgrounds, the wedding can also be a chance to blend two (or more!) cultures together.

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Ceremony & Traditions

Having a Friend Officiate Your Wedding: What You Need to Do

Here's what you need to know if you're having a friend or family member perform your ceremony.

Some couples choose to have a close friend or family member become ordained to act as their wedding officiant and perform the ceremony. Find out what you need to know if you’re planning on going this direction.

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Ceremony & Traditions

8 Ways to Include Mothers in Wedding Ceremony Traditions

Discover touching ways to honor your mom during the wedding.

Whether you choose to incorporate one or all of these suggestions into your celebration, your mom is sure to appreciate that you thought of her when planning your big day.

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Ceremony & Traditions

How to Organize the Bridal Party Processional: Order of Bridesmaids & Groomsmen

You'll need to figure out what order everyone will be standing in.

One of the toughest parts of planning the ceremony can be figuring out what order your bridal party should walk in and stand beside you.

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Ceremony & Traditions

16 Amazing Chuppahs from Real Wedding Ceremonies

Be inspired by these incredible Jewish ceremony structures from real weddings.

When it comes to the ceremony décor of your wedding, the pièce de résistance will likely be the altar – after all, that is where you and your future spouse will recite your vows and become married.

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Ceremony & Traditions

How to Fix Minor Mistakes at Your Wedding Ceremony

Or even avoid them all together!

While we have no advice for if you say the wrong name at the altar (looking at you, Ross Geller), we do have tips to help you smooth out some minor mishaps that could otherwise adversely affect your nuptials.

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Ceremony & Traditions

Adorable Flower Girl & Ring Bearer Ideas: Outfits, Accessories & More

Be inspired by the cute kids' attire from these real weddings.

Learn how to choose flower girl and ring bearer outfits – plus, see adorable flower girls and ring bearers from real weddings to get ideas!

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Ceremony & Traditions

Two Weddings: Your Guide to Having Two Wedding Ceremonies

If you're from different religious backgrounds or have faraway families; here's how exchange vows twice!

As more and more couples now come from different parts of the country, the world, or cultural backgrounds, a new trend has emerged: having two weddings.

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Ceremony & Traditions

How to Plan an Interfaith Wedding

Learn how to come together for your vow exchange.

It’s a beautiful thing when love can transcend cultural divisions, but it’s no secret that it can make planning a wedding more difficult.

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Ceremony & Traditions

What Should Be Included in a Secular Ceremony?

Sometimes you might want to make the vow exchange a little longer.

If you and your future spouse do not practice any particular faith – or none at all – it may be tough to figure out how to fill time in a ceremony. Here are some ideas on what to include in a secular ceremony.

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