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Love Lock Ceremony

Secure your vows with a love lock ceremony.

What you need:

All you need for this is two padlocks - you can get some lovely personalised ones online with your wedding date, names, and venue on!

What happens during the ceremony?

During your wedding ceremony, you will be presented with two separate padlocks, symbolising your individual lives, goals, your families and personal journeys.

To symbolise the commitment you are making to one another and to signify the coming together of your lives in marriage, you will be invited to take your locks and secure them together. We will delve into the idea that your bond is 'secure' by the vows you've made, the rings you've exchanged, and that you're bound together from this day forwards.

From this point, we will finish the ceremony with your locks secured together but if you want to add a bit of fun, you can throw your keys into your guests to get them involved too. You can joke and say whoever catches them 'holds the keys' to your marriage! Alternatively, you could place the keys in a keepsake box, include them in a sand ceremony or seal them some other way - if you're getting your wedding flowers preserved you could perhaps include them in the art!

How to personalise further:

• Get the locks engraved!

• Have a family/close friend bring the locks to the front (or your matchmakers!)

• Have the locks passed from person to person before this part in the ceremony for everyone to make silent wishes for your married life together.

Alternatives with similar symbolism

Handtying

Sand Ceremony

Unity Candle

Pairs well with:

• Your handwritten vows

• Your story - Carl and Caitlin's proposal involved a padlock on a bridge so this was the perfect element to have for them!

• Decorative certificate

A love lock ceremony fits perfectly after your wedding vows/ring exchange, but it can go anywhere in your ceremony really! It will be dependent on other ceremony elements you choose to include but your celebrant will guide you!

Good luck with your ceremony planning, any questions - just ask!

Meg x

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Photography: Joss Denham Photography

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