The Big Kiss… or the Big 51 Kisses
Something you need to understand about wedding planning is that it is OK to shamelessly steal from other people’s weddings. You NEED to steal other people’s wedding ideas. In the world of weddings, there is nothing new under the sun. Don’t waste your energy trying to be original. You are going to need to conserve that energy just to pick exactly what wedding ideas you are going to steal.
My favorite stolen wedding idea? It wasn’t my brooch bouquets or any other material detail. It was something we did with our ceremony that was lifted directly from Collin’s twin sister Carrie’s wedding: instead of waiting for the grand finale of our ceremony to kiss, we kissed each other whenever we felt like it during our ceremony. Which means we kissed AT LEAST 51 times during our wedding ceremony (it’s possible I missed a few due to edits in our wedding video).
When I saw Carrie start her own wedding by kissing her almost-husband, I knew that I’d be doing that on my own wedding day. It wasn’t just that it was a sweet moment that wins over the hearts of the crowd, even though kissing before the universally-expected kiss cue absolutely does that. I realized that like Carrie, I’d be unable to hold myself back from expressing my love with a kiss when I get to the end of the aisle. And moreover, at that point I already expected to be marrying Collin, and Carrie and Collin are as much alike as you’d expect former wombmates to be, so any chance that I could restrain myself would be made moot by Collin’s enthusiasm for kissing. [I mean, seriously, 51 times people. In about 10 minutes.]
Kissing during your ceremony lets you express yourself, and gives you a release for the intense emotions of being married that isn’t breaking down in attractive sobs. And maybe the greatest gift of all? It takes so much pressure off “the big kiss” at the end. Why agonize over having one perfect kiss in front of all your family and friends, a perfectly-timed kiss that strikes exactly the right balance between passionate and family-friendly, when you can give yourself 51 chances (or more!) to hit that mark?
As an added bonus, your photographer gets more chances to get this sort of money shot:
Can you see yourself kissing your partner all throughout your wedding ceremony? Or will you be saving up your kiss mojo for the big finish?
-Robin
It had never occurred to me to do this… wish it had though, as I got the giggles throughout my vows- fine by me and hubby, but it got a few disapproving looks from the family- who were the only people there. Luckily, we're now arranging to renew our vows and have the wedding we wanted first time round… and this is one idea that I will most definitely be shamelessly stealing!
Ohhh- I LOVE this idea…
I actually am not a huge fan of this idea. Me and my fiance are pretty anti PDA, it just makes us both pretty uncomfortable and we're already going to be kissing on demand alot. I love to kiss my fiance, and sure it would be sweet to kiss him whenever I want during the ceremony, but I think one kiss with everyone's eyes on us is enough for us.
i am a little hesistant about it because of the pda aspect of it, but i'll def be bringing this up with FH when he gets home from work tonight, it could be pretty cute and unexpected
I love this idea! I would think it would take a lot of pressure off of having that "perfect single kiss" at the end of the ceremony. Consider it "stoled"*!
*Or "stolen" if you don't speak North GA Hick.