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Planning the ceremony is not about the place to have the wedding, the dress, the guests. The ceremony is about the service. Will it be a religious service or a civil service Will you have a minister or a judge? If it is to be a civil service then you need to contact the courthouse and find out what judges are willing to do weddings and when they are available. If you desire a religious ceremony, you are in a different area.
Most clergy will require that you come to marriage counseling for at least 4-6 sessions. Religious weddings bring an element with them that many people overlook, God. In the Bible is says that man and woman are leave their parents and cling only to each other. In our society today 1 out of 2 weddings end in divorce. That is not at all what God intended so clergy do what they can to prevent divorce.
Clergy as will want to talk to you about the actual ceremony. What scriptures would you like to have read? How many people will be in the wedding party? Will you be writing your own vows or using traditional ones? Will you give flowers to the mothers, light a unity candle, have a receiving line?
These are the things that make up the ceremony not the place the gown or anything else.

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