Church wedding - Do i need an order of service ?

They are a good idea, particularly for the wording of the hymns.

I made enough for one each, but one between couples should be plenty (don't forget a few for the vicar, verger, organist...)

Yes - most vicar's will insist on it.

I'd say you need a minimum of one between two. Don't forget you'll need one for your vicar, the verger, any choir/bell ringers etc.

Your vicar should have some samples that you can have a look at and will probably want to approve the content before it goes to print.

Yep you'll need one like CB said. There are plenty of templates online but he/she will need to approve before.

We are printing our own and just tying some ribbon around them saves us some pennies!

Yes I think you do need them just so people know the hymns and prayers as much as anything else.

I've printed ours myself on nice paper just using Word (and a pretty whizzy printer that does booklets) and will tie some ribbon round them

Ours hasn't mentioned it. We just have to let the priest know the week before (sooner if possible)

SIL had a civil wedding this year and had them, they listed who was who in the wedding party, plan for the day, menu etc. I thought they were great as you weren't hanging about wondering when you were going in for the meal, when the evening people were coming etc.

We are incorporating the two, order of church service and the above in one booklet, giving one per couple (or thereabouts) on arrival at the church

Hi

We arent having them as we know the vicar well so he is letting us do what we want! We are having a Christmas wedding so having the church carol books, and our church has special service books just for weddings - check if yours does too.

Hope that helps

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We're not having one either, we're using the church hymn books and the church wedding service books. We've got to know our vicar quite well and he actually commented to us that the wedding service books have hardly been used as most people do oos'. When I asked if he'd recommend us using them and not bothering to do our own oos he was delighted and commented that at last they would be put to good use! I like being given a hymn book when I go to chuch, maybe that's just me though! The only thing I'll be gutted about is not having an oos for a reminder after that day, I may make one just for us as a momento!! :-)

There's no reason why you can'd do an 'order of service/day' for all the guests with timings, maps etc in it and just not putting the words for the hymns in there. You could put the hymn names and numbers and let people do it that way, or even just use the old "hymn board" for the numbers, if they have one in that church.