Order of Service help

Following this - we are having a religious ceremony in a hotel/venue so we are also trying to get ideas of how to do this too, although we are paying our stationary people to actually do it we still have to come up with the wording or how we want it laid out.

I don't have a template but I'm buying mine from PaperThemes (where we bought our wedding invitations) and they have pictures of the orders of service so you can kind of see what to put in.

We're having:

Bridal Entrance song

Welcome

First Hymn - How Great Thou Art

Wedding Ceremony

Signing of the Register

Second Hymn - It Is Well

Message

Recessional

We're printing the words to the hymns as well. I've got a message on the front page about people not taking any pictures during the ceremony and I've got a nice quote on the last page.

If you're having a CoE wedding they have an online planner which tells you what to include/advice re structuring.

Our service is like this:

Guests Arriving

The Entrance of the Bride

Welcome

Introduction

Hymn 1

Reading 1

Reading 2

Hymn 2

The exchanging of vows & Rings

The blessing of the marriage

Signing of the Register

Prayers

Dismissal

I didn't use a template and just made my own ones up using inspo from pinterest, I wanted fairly minimalist, so I just have the outline as above apart from hymn/reading details. Then I have the 'key players' and names on the other side, and on the back I put a wedding timeline to let people know about food/cake/etc timings.

I didn't put the hymn words as a) we have two very common hymns and b) we can use the hymn books.

Thank you for your help and advice- it was really helpful. I've now managed to finish the orders of service and have it okayed by the vicar.

Now all I need to do is to print them out and add some ribbon.

thanks xx