Here's the situation; I'm in England and my partner is in America, I'll be moving to America so we have to get married in the US.
The plan was just to do the legal part in the US, but have the actual wedding ceremony in the UK for friends and family...however my partners ex-wife won't allow him to take his kids to the UK so we're thinking of making the US marriage a small intimate wedding ceremony for just our little family and then a wedding ceremony and reception for friends and family in the UK. As a non-Christian who doesn't like the impersonal formal tone of registry office weddings it had always been the plan to do the legal part as just a formality then have a personal ceremony as the actual wedding...I'd just not thought it through.
I'm wondering HOW we'd have a wedding ceremony if not the Christian or Registry Office ceremony...we'd rather have some sort of formal ceremony structure than just making it up as we go along, but I have no idea how to achieve this, can anyone suggest anything?