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[azurelunatic]

Posted in full at: http://ift.tt/1ocuMno at May 23, 2014 at 04:30AM
stele3: nicolegendary: okay i’ve just had such a perfect idea for the layout of a wedding ceremony...
stele3:

nicolegendary:

okay i’ve just had such a perfect idea for the layout of a wedding ceremony that i drew a diagram and will now describe it

so a traditional set up for a ceremony would look like this, with the audience lined up in front of the couple, and divided in the middle to make a path for the bride to come down and be given away by her father to the groom

instead, i propose (ohhh puns) a set up more like this:

where the audience is on either side (which halves the distance that the farthest person is from the action) and at the same time you can have each half of the couple come down aisles on opposite sides and both be given away by their parents to each other (which takes away all the gross sexist and hetero-normative crap)

just… isn’t that way better???

Doing this. I had the idea the other night that I’d like to be given away by both my parents, and my future wife to be given away by hers (or a family friend, or whatever she wants. I like this seating arrangement very much.

This pretty much rules out many church venues because of their hard to change seating arrangements, but I really like it. Though I’m not sure most venues would approve of the circles and stars of groats. 

ceremony, weddings

Comments

[synecdochic]

This is kind of why we adore the place at WDW we want to get married, as it has the aisles at opposite sides :)

[azurelunatic]

Ooo! Nifty.

[synecdochic]

it's also REALLY BEAUTIFUL and awesomely located and etc, and the resort is designed to be Atlantic City circa 1920 or thereabouts and it brings abck so many memories of childhood spent on the New Jersey shore (and not the part that people think when they hear 'Jersey Shore', ha.)

[jack]

We walked up the aisle together, but I realise that most people would find that too untraditional. I can't stand the idea that one partner is given away and the other isn't, though I know many people are just used to it.

Before I saw the image, I imagined this being two people walking up parallel aisles, which would also work, but have less "meeting in the middle".

We very very nearly had a circle of groats, as the symbolism was perfect, but in the end we went with a circle of candles.

[azurelunatic]

That sounds lovely.

[azurelunatic]

So no shirts with ab-windows in them, then. :D

[wendelah1]

We walked up the aisle together, but I realise that most people would find that too untraditional. I can't stand the idea that one partner is given away and the other isn't, though I know many people are just used to it.

We did this, too. I couldn't stand the idea of anyone giving anyone away in a marriage ceremony. We're adults, not dependents or children, and certainly not property.