Civil Ceremony - Order of Service

I'm going to do an order of the day rather than order of service for my civil service. So brief outline of ceremony, then put that drinks outside afterwards, then time of meal etc.

That's what i'm struggling with - the outline of the ceremony... Any examples?

I would just put 'ceremony' (?) not really clued up on this (can you tell?) so would also be interested to hear any suggestions.

Had a beit of a search and found this (on the Cambridgshire website!)...

EXAMPLE ORDER OF CEREMONY

Front cover:

Welcome to the Marriage of

Julia Annabel Jordan & Michael Andrew Phillips

At Bliss Hall Hotel, Cambridge

On Saturday 14th June 2005 at 4.00pm

Ceremony conducted throughout by

Cambridgeshire Registration Officers

Inside:

Bridal Entrance

Trumpet Voluntary - Clarke


Welcome and Introduction


Reading by Gemma Unwin

" I Promise" by Dorothy R Colgan


Declarations


Exchange of Vows


Exchange of Rings


Reading by James Stuart

" The First Day" by Christina Rossetti


Signing of the Register

Music during the Signing

" Love is all around" by Wet Wet Wet

"Unchained Melody"

by the Righteous Brothers

"The Greatest Love of All"

by George Benson


Presentation of Certificate


Music for the Exit of the Bride and Groom

"What a wonderful world"

by Louis Armstrong

Marvelous! I'm going to save this a template (if I ever get round to making OoS - kind of still stuck on invites at the mo). do you think its necessary? I mean as a guest would you like to know what's happening when, or just go with the flow? and would you write which songs are being played in the background?

Yeah - I do like it when you get an "official programme" at weddings ?

Not sure what to do about mine actually. Have made a one that matches my info sheets and stationery but have decided it won't look right for the Order of Service. It's one sheet of A4 folded twice to make a little booklet (if you get what I mean) - but I think for this, it would look too cheap.

Mine (currently) has:

Front Cover: initals, date and venue (matches the info sheet)

Inside 1: Bridal party into

Inside 2: Order of Service

Back Cover: Order of the Day

How's everyone else doing theres?

This might sound silly but I thought order of service was just for church weddings??? Is this something I've forgotten about ?

Mines kinda similar but im having a church wedding so will have order of the service with hymns and readings in, and then an order of the day bit with timings on, and a page of thank yous with names of best man, MOH, BM's Priest etc. Think thats it.

Im having a civil ceremony but not having an OOS. I don't think you can't have one if it's a CC, but I don't really think they're needed, the only time I've been to a wedding that's had them has been a church wedding and tbh, I only really needed it to check what hymns they were having x