Signing Your Marriage Contract.
Creating a ceremonial element out of signing a marriage contract amplifies your public committment to one another and deepens the role of your witnesses.
Here's how:
Have your officiant read your Marriage Contract, or Ketubah (see 7/26/05 entry titled "The Art of the Marriage Contract"), after you have each recited your vows. Then the officiant invites the bride and groom to each take a turn signing the contract containing the vows. Use a pen you've chosen especially for this purpose.
Next, give several family members or friends an honorary role and invite them to sign it after you do. Or, as one bride I worked with did, leave the Ketubah out on a special table after your ceremony for ALL of the guests to sign during your reception. This is even better than a guest book!
The Marriage Contract can created on your computer and printed out onto a piece of linen resume paper. After the ceremony, it may be framed and placed next to your wedding photo in your house. Crafty brides may want to do something more elaborate and artful with the contract itself and then put it into a shadow box on display with other keepsake objects from the wedding.
Questions? or variations on this idea that you wish to share? Click on the comments link below and do tell!
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Posted by: heather | January 15, 2006 at 06:55 PM