Wedding blessing help

You can have a blessing done 'like' a wedding, with vows & rings etc, but legally it HAS to be made clear that it is a blessing and not the wedding itself, so your guests will definitely know it's not the 'real thing'.

One of my friends did this - they had planned their wedding and then a close relative was taken seriously ill and was desperate to live long enough to see them marry but obviously wasnt' going to live until their wedding date. So they had a hospital bedside wedding and what should have been their wedding became their wedding blessing. 'Wedding blessing of' was on the order of service and the minister several times mentioned that it was the blessing of the marriage that had taken place on... The vows were done as 'we renew the vows we made...' It looked just like a normal wedding apart from that, and the fact that there was no signing of the register but legally, the minister had to make sure that we all knew we were not witnessing a wedding.

If you have not been to many weddings it could appear very similar, you can exchange rings but it will be without the exact same vows etc but instead it can be similar words. You can also "be given away. And there is no registrar to sign.

But always check with your vicar on their thoughts before making plans as each one will do things differently.