Wedding without an aisle, but without other ideas

[ChristineLS]

Hello all!

My fiance and I are having our wedding at a local park in a lodge. Depending on the weather for the day (it's going to be in central New York State... where even the summer is not guaranteed to be pretty) it'll be either inside (kind of rustic) or outside (field, woods, near a lake but not that close to one). It's going to be a bit informal - I'm going to wear a summer dress, he's wearing khakhis and a dress shirt, close friends and family only, and my sister is the MOH and a close friend a BM, just because they are awesome people I want to honor and I need the help. :D

FH and I are a little better at deciding what we don't want than what we do. It's not going to be very formal, there won't be a religious element to it, and we do not want an aisle to walk down. The last part kinds of stumps us - if we don't do that, and since we lack a teleporter ;) what other ways do people get the ceremony started?

It's a lack of creativity, and my MOH and BM also were kind of confused... never mind FH.

[BarceloMayaPalaceBride]

I went to and outside wedding last summer that was in the mountains and absoulutely GORGEOUS. They didn't have an aisle to walk down either. They began walking out of a group of trees. It flowed really well, and was perfect. Would it be appropriate to sprinkle some wild flowers where you'll be walking too?

[saltyveruca]

I got married in a historic park-I didn't have an aisle either. Instead of walking up from the back through the chairs (aka, an aisle), I just walked straight up to the "altar" from the other side. So as I was walking in, everyone was facing me. People thought it was pretty neat.

[acidcookie]

One thing we were really excited about doing in lieu of an aisle (and really a separate ceremony) was to have all the guests gather and mingle as though they are at the reception and then we'd make a grand entrance (still unmarried, and this is the first time they'd see us) and then get married sort of on the spot, in the middle of the crowd. So less like they are sitting down and waiting for a show, but more like we're all gathered together to witness something. Granted, we don't have any attendants (so much simpler IMO!) Details are still up in the air, but this is what got us excited.

[RosieAngel]

Your wedding sounds a bit like ours - we had it outside with a minister who did a completely non-religious ceremony. As soon as she gives me the electronic copy of her ceremony, I'll PM you with it!

What we did, being outdoors, was just arrange seats and walk up between them to the front, but that's kind of like an isle walk. :purplex:

I like acidcookie's idea if it's inside!

If it's outside, maybe you all could wait far enough away for people not to see you and then come frolicking up like you've been playing all day, running or skipping arm in arm or something? I think that would be super-cute!

[ChristineLS]

Huh, those are some really interesting ideas... I shall have to ponder them :)

Thank you!