Wedding Ceremony Your selection of the ceremony site will be influenced by your religion, season of the year and the formality of your wedding. You can either have it in a church, cathedral, chapel, temple, garden, hotel, club, at home, halls, park, museum, yacht, beach etc. In church, cathedral, temple, the fee may include the organist, wedding coordinator, custodian, changing rooms for the bridal party and items such as kneeling cushions, aisle runner, and candle stand. Make sure you ask about the restrictions or guidelines regarding photograhphy, videos, music, decorations, candles and petal tossing. Also checked the parking availabity, handicapped accesibility and time constraints. To save money you can have the same facility as your reception so that way you can save a second rental fee. Make a guest list and stick to it. In church or cathedral ask if there's another wedding in that day and share the cost of floral decorations with that bride. At the garden you can have guests stand and omit the cost of renting chairs. Consider the officiant's fee when selecting your officiant and your ceremony site. Some officiants may not accept fee, depending on your relationship with him/her. If he refuses then you can send a donation to your officiant's church or cathedral. Don't forget to discuss with your officiant the readings you would like incorporated in your wedding. The guestbook should be placed outside the ceremony and reception site along with an elegant pen and penholder. This is where where your guests sign-in as they arrive at the ceremony or reception. You should also ask a friend or family who is not part of the wedding party to be the guest book attendant. He is responsible of inviting the guest to sign-in.