Create Your Perfect Wedding Ceremony - 3 Ways You Can Make a Better World With Your Wedding Guests
Do something that matters with your community and increase the support you will have for your marriage.
You'll be surprised to find that shifting the focus for at least some of the wedding away from your relationship and toward what you believe in can actually make the wedding more fun and more meaningful.
Your ability to do some of these things is based on your financial stability; if you need pots and pans and blankets and sheets, some of these will not be attractive to you.
But if like many in the world, you are marrying later and combining households, more stuff is the last thing you need.
This gives you some great options.
Miss Manners will not always be in agreement, but I don't mind stepping outside her sphere for a good cause.
Here are three ways to put a charity at the center of your wedding, your wedding ceremony and maybe even your marriage.
Pledge to be passionate about upholding your values in your wedding vows.
Then keep your friends and family up-to-date on your involvement in the larger world throughout your marriage.
People will think it's a good idea and do the same thing.
And more important, they'll be more invested in the success of your marriage because they were helping you change the world.
Sweet!
You'll be surprised to find that shifting the focus for at least some of the wedding away from your relationship and toward what you believe in can actually make the wedding more fun and more meaningful.
Your ability to do some of these things is based on your financial stability; if you need pots and pans and blankets and sheets, some of these will not be attractive to you.
But if like many in the world, you are marrying later and combining households, more stuff is the last thing you need.
This gives you some great options.
Miss Manners will not always be in agreement, but I don't mind stepping outside her sphere for a good cause.
Here are three ways to put a charity at the center of your wedding, your wedding ceremony and maybe even your marriage.
- Favors: Rather than buying small gifts for everyone, consider making a donation in your guests' names to a charity that represents who you are as a couple.
This is a way to say that as excited as you are about the wedding, you want to use your joy to make the world sweeter. - Wedding Gifts: If you don't need the money to pay off the wedding (and weddings are expensive) or to feather the new nest you are building together, consider offering your friends the option of donating to a charity as a wedding gift.
You don't want to demand that they donate where you're interested, but offer an option.
Explain why it's important to the two of you.
Disclaimer, Steve and I decided to start a non-profit for peacemaking and it's been a wonderful way to keep the community involved in what we're passionate about. - Destination Wedding: here's one that's not getting written up in the wedding magazines.
What about inviting your friends to come along on a benefit to say: Habitat for Humanity, or something else you care about?
Pledge to be passionate about upholding your values in your wedding vows.
Then keep your friends and family up-to-date on your involvement in the larger world throughout your marriage.
People will think it's a good idea and do the same thing.
And more important, they'll be more invested in the success of your marriage because they were helping you change the world.
Sweet!
