Saturday, January 4, 2014

Children Create a Touching Wedding Vows

Something that makes wedding vows with children different and unique is the presence of your children in your wedding ceremony. They are different with the other wedding vows that people may take. It is true that weddings always become a magical time for people involved in. This wedding vow with children could be quite emotional way to take marriage vows. Can you imagine what scene you are going to watch when the groom bends down to vow to the bride's children? Can you guess what the couple feel when the bride does the same thing for the groom's children? It must be touching and heartwarming to watch this even alive.

Wedding vows with children will grow deep impression in the hearts of the couple. They should imagine the best way of best fulfillment of the vows, because their children themselves hear directly what they promise in their wedding vows exchange. Actually some of wedding vows with children also get the children to take the vows as well. This can be a great idea because the children will know the importance of wedding vows and the seriousness of your marriage.
In wedding vows with children, the children also give response to the vows read by the pastor. Here is an example of wedding vows with children. Such vow has been commonly used by people, and if you like you can use it at your own wedding:

Groom: "(Children’s names), I want you to know that I dearly love your mother. We have become very good friends over the weeks and months and we have learned to love each other. As you have so graciously shared this wonderful woman with me, so will I share the love I feel for her with you. Together, we will learn much more about each other. I promise also to be fair and to be honest, to be available for you as I am for your mom, and in due time, to earn your love, respect and true friendship. I will not attempt to replace anyone, but to make a place in your hearts that is for me alone. I will be father and friend, and I will cherish my life with all of you. On this day when I marry your mom, I marry you, and I promise to love and support you as my own."

Bride: "(Children’s names), I want you to know that I dearly love your father. We have become very good friends over the weeks and months and we have learned to love each other. As you have so graciously shared this wonderful man with me, so will I share the love I feel for him with both of you. Together, we will learn much more about each other.
I promise also to be fair and to be honest, to be available for you as I am for your dad, and in due time, to earn your love, respect and true friendship. I will not attempt to replace anyone, but to make a place in your hearts that is for me alone. I will be mother and friend, and I will cherish my life with both of you. On this day when I marry your dad, I marry you, and I promise to love and support you as my own."

After the couple exchanged their vows, it is now the turn of bride and groom’s children to respond to the following vows :

The bride’s children
(Children’s names), do you promise to love your mother and her new husband?
Children respond: "I do."
Do you promise to support their marriage and your new family?
Children respond: "I do."
Do you promise to accept the responsibility of being their children, and to encourage them, support them, and accept them just as our heavenly Father accepts us?
Children respond: "I do."

The groom’s children
(Children’ names), do you promise to love your father and his new wife?
Children respond: "I do."
Do you promise to support their marriage and your new family?
Children respond: "I do."
Do you promise to accept the responsibility of being their children, and to encourage them, support them, and accept them just as our heavenly Father accepts us?
Children respond: "I do."

Friday, January 3, 2014

Things That You Can Connect With Your Wedding Table Theme Ideas

Wedding table themes is also great to be discussed. Sometimes, as it’s working traditionally, we identify the table with a number. This is not suitable because some people may complain "Why I am at table 12” so forth. It is better for you to use names to identify your wedding tables instead of using numbers. You may use the service of top table planner to help you arrange the names you have chosen for the tables.  You can create different layouts to see what works best in dragging and dropping guests and tables around the screen.
Your wedding table themes will also be great with suitable wedding colors. If you plan blue colour  for your theme, the tables could be sky, midnight, or royal. You can place them in the place you spend more time together with your couple. You can connect your theme with your hobbies. For example, if you are golf fanatics then you could have tee, 19th hole, fairway, green etc. You can also choose song theme with names of songs by artists you both like.

There many other things that you can connect with your wedding table themes. For you honeymoon, imagine of going on an exotic honeymoon. And you may use names from that. For your safari you can use names of animals. You can have palm tree, white sand, and coral for your beach holiday. For the venue, you should take inspiration from your venue. If it's castle you could have spires, moat, princess etc. You also may write "I Love You" in different languages.


Your wedding table themes could be connected with seasons and your location. If you're getting married in a town with an interesting history then pick out some of those events. If you are getting married in winter, so your wedding's tables could be called icicle, snowflake, or blizzard.