How To Write The Perfect Wedding Script

Why I Wrote Our Script

Perhaps the one thing I spent the most time working on for my DIY wedding was writing the wedding script for the ceremony. I wanted the words spoken during our ceremony to not only be very personal to my husband and myself, but deliver a sweet and magical feeling over the audience. I wanted the audience to feel how much love we have for one another. I wanted the audience to feel just as much happiness as we felt that day.

As everyone cried (including the caterers, who knew nothing about us), I knew I had accomplished what I sought out to do with my writing. I really enjoyed writing the wedding script myself. It gave the ceremony a very personal touch.

Find Other Scripts You Love for Inspiration

Don’t be hesitant to use the exact phrasing from other wedding scripts – take others’ ideas and use them for your day. That’s why you’re here, isn’t it? I read through as many wedding scripts I could find online. I talked to family and friends that were married and took ideas from their scripts. I read through famous poems and love stories to find inspiration. I watched (actual) wedding videos and (fictional) wedding movies. I got my inspiration from everywhere. After finding my inspiration and typing up pages of notes, I broke my wedding script down into seven sections.

Wedding Script Sections

1. WELCOMING REMARKS
2. RECOGNITION OF PARENTS
3. PRAYER
4. CEREMONY
5. VOWS
6. RING EXCHANGE
7. CLOSING

This is the format I used. Change things up as little or as much as you want. After all, it is your day! Your rules. Your wedding script.

1. WELCOMING REMARKS

In this section, you want to welcome your guests and thank them for being there. Remind them why they are here in the first place. Write down what marriage means to you and your significant other.

Quote from my script:

“The two of them will begin a new life, a new sense of oneness, and a new opportunity to know together and grow together as long as you both shall trust and love.”

2. RECOGNITION OF PARENTS

This next section doesn’t necessarily need to be a recognition of just the parents or guardians. It can be for any friends or any family members that have made this day possible. Recognition of grandparents is also very popular. Unfortunately, neither my husband nor I had any grandparents at our wedding, thus we had a recognition of just our parents.

Quote from my script:

“This occasion is a special celebration for the parents who have brought these two children into the world and nurtured them into adulthood. Because of your many sacrifices and everlasting love and support, you have allowed Samuel and Julie to pursue their dreams. You have taught them that commitment, loyalty, faith, and love are at the center of everything.”

3. PRAYER

Prayer was important for us to include in our ceremony. For some this is a given, and for others it is completely unnecessary. To each their own. But do exactly that, make this your own!

4. CEREMONY

Here is the section I enjoyed writing the most. I put into words what marriage meant to my husband and me. It was a time to reflect on memories that brought us together and helped us fall in love in the first place. It was a time to explore our shared thoughts and feelings for our future to come.

If I could give every couple one piece of advice for their wedding script this would be this: include a secret message for your significant other. This can be your own twist on vows, a favorite memory, a promise, or anything that you wish to have said to/about your significant other. This adds such an element of surprise for the both of you and allows you to say the words you may not be able to say yourself, in front of other people (I choke up way too easy to have said these words on my own!). We individually wrote letters to our officiant who kindly added our words for one another into our ceremony script. It was beautiful and the perfect touch to the ceremony.

Quote from my script:

“Marriage deepens and enriches every facet of life. Happiness is fuller, memories are fresher, commitment is stronger. Marriage encourages and nurtures new life, new experiences, and new ways of expressing love through the seasons of life.”

5. VOWS

Here is where you can get extra creative (if you want!), or stick to the traditional route. We decided to take on more traditional vows, but changed them up just a tad. For instance, I did not want the phrase “’til death do us part” so we changed it up a little to instead say “I will love and honor you all the days of my life”.  For me, that sounded less morbid and more romantic.

6. RING EXCHANGE

In this section you can remind the audience what the rings symbolize to you and your significant other. Why do you want to wear the rings? What is the history behind wearing rings?

Quote from my script:

“The ring is an ancient symbol, so perfect and simple, representing wholeness and peace.  It has no beginning and has no end.  It is a circle; for love that is given comes back round again.”

7. CLOSING

And so here it is! The closing words to your beautiful ceremony! Remind your audience one more time why they are here – true love!

Quote from my script:

“There is something eternal and pure about love. It grounds us. It reminds us to be present in every moment. It has, and always will remain immortal and infinite, which nothing can confine, and which nothing can extinguish.”

I hope my wedding script can give you some encouragement that you too can write an amazing and heartfelt script that can inspire others to feel the love you and your significant other share together.

Still Need Help?

If you want me to share my entire wedding script with you, just email me! I would be happy to help.

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