Multiple Ceremonies

The ceremony should reflect your (you and fiance's) beliefs, not those of your guests. Many couples have a single bilingual ceremony with no issues. Talk to your officiant because they perform those all the time. Your family/friends will and should respect your choice.

That seems like a lot. I dont personally see the need for two ceremonies. If the language barrier is the main concern, your officiant may know a translator that can assist if they're not able to themselves. If it's that you both have different religions (I know you said his family was either religious or a different religion) I've seen weddings where they basically took turns with the traditional religious aspects like reading from one text then reading from the other. There are definitely work arounds that wont be so stressful for you and should reflect you two as a couple.

In my culture it’s very common to have a tea ceremony and a separate church ceremony! In fact some people have two tea ceremonies (one for each household) and a separate church ceremony. So the schedule usually must start out in the earlier morning

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I havent heard of that but I will look into how early they do that and how big/small the gap is between the two ceremonies.

Thanks!

When I first started planning I was thinking I may need to do 3 ceremonies. My family is Laos and my mom wants a Laos Ceremony, His Family is Catholic and we needed a church Ceremony, and then I wanted a Ceremony that was special and meaningful to us at the venue, outdoors with beautiful views.

Everyone gave me the feedback that 3 was way too much to do and seemed really repetitive. I came to the conclusion to do the Laos Ceremony the day before as part of the pre-wedding celebration. Catholic Ceremony on the day of and then cut out the 3rd ceremony because we weren't going to do our own vows anyways. And then reception at the venue day of the wedding.

So I'm still technically having 2 ceremonies and then a reception. I think it can be done and that's not too much at all. I set a schedule/timeline of what my day would look like if I did have the 2 ceremonies in 1 day.

You can have your Catholic Church Ceremony first in the afternoon like noon or 1pm and then head over to the venue and you can have your other ceremony/reception there.

View Quoted Comment Thanks Molly! I’m thinking of that (: