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Once you get your head around the difference, your options to celebrate open right up including having your wedding before you get married!</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoCaption"><img src="../blogimages/643580192/pretty-and-punk0006-wedding-advice-celebrant-in-spain (FILEminimizer).jpg" style="width: 100%;"><br></p><p class="MsoCaption">Photo Toni Bonet<o:p></o:p></p><h2>Why a marriage and a weddingare not the same<o:p></o:p></h2><p class="MsoNormal">Very simply, a marriage is a legal contract and a wedding is the celebration of the marriage.<br></p><p class="MsoCaption">Now you know that a marriage and a wedding are not the same, did you know that you dont have to hold both on the same day? In fact you can even have the wedding<i>before</i>the marriage! Read on to find out more.</p><p class="MsoCaption"><img src="../blogimages/643580192/pretty-and-punk0007-wedding-advice-celebrant-in-spain (FILEminimizer).jpg" style="width: 100%;"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoCaption">Photo Toni Bonet<o:p></o:p></p><h2>Who can legally marry us?<o:p></o:p></h2><p class="MsoNormal">Depending on where you are in the world when you contract your marriage only a registered officiant or minister can legally marry you.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">For example, in its most basic form, contracting your marriage with a registrar in the UK can be as simple as saying 40 words plus your names and signing a witnessed entry to a register.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">You can opt for some ceremony around that marriage, but you dont have to.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">You can totally separate the wedding ceremony and have it at a different time, on a different day, at a different location, even in a different country!</p><p class="MsoCaption"><img src="../blogimages/643580192/pretty-and-punk0003-wedding-advice-celebrant-in-spain (FILEminimizer).jpg" style="width: 100%;"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoCaption">Photo Lara Jackson<o:p></o:p></p><h2>When is our real wedding day?<o:p></o:p></h2><p class="MsoNormal">Your real wedding day is the day you celebrate your marriage with a ceremony.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span times="" new="" roman""=""></span></span>For example, if you choose a marriage in a church, the minister will wrap a traditional religious wedding ceremony around the contractual marriage so the day you get married in church is also your wedding day.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span times="" new="" roman""=""></span></span>Another example is choosing to have a wedding ceremony at an approved premises, so that your registrar builds a non-religious wedding celebration around the contractual marriage again your wedding day is the same time as your marriage.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">The options open up and the fun really starts when you totally separate your marriage from your wedding.</p><p class="MsoCaption"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><img src="../blogimages/643580192/pretty-and-punk0004-wedding-advice-celebrant-in-spain (FILEminimizer).jpg" style="width: 100%;"><o:p></o:p></p><br><p class="MsoCaption">Photo Lara Jackson<o:p></o:p></p><h2>A celebrant led wedding is totally flexible<o:p></o:p></h2><p class="MsoNormal">With the uncertainty of Covid-19 restrictions and the varying availability of registrars, many couples are choosing to have their wedding<i>before</i>their marriage.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">A wedding officiant or celebrant can create a bespoke ceremony for you to include whatever elements are important to you.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span times="" new="" roman""=""></span></span>You might want to include traditional wording, something written especially for you, or a hybrid blend of old and new.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span times="" new="" roman""=""></span></span>You can embrace rituals and customs from both of your backgrounds and life experiences to create a wedding ceremony that truly reflects what is important to both of you.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoCaption">And as long as you understand that you will still have to contract your legal marriage, your actual wedding day can be<i>when</i>you want it and<i>where</i>you want it.</p><p class="MsoCaption"><img src="../blogimages/643580192/pretty-and-punk0005-wedding-advice-celebrant-in-spain (FILEminimizer).jpg" style="width: 100%;"><br></p><p class="MsoCaption">Photo Lara Jackson<o:p></o:p></p><h2>Elope now and get married later<o:p></o:p></h2><p class="MsoNormal">Couples who love to travel are really getting on board with kicking stress into touch with a wedding-moon!<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">They are having an elopement holiday, just the two of them, and getting married <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"></span>at the register office when they return. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">On the day of their elopement ceremony, couples are choosing an adventurous location, a celebrant and a photographer to capture every romantic moment. A stress-free, intimate wedding-moon whats not to love?!</p><p class="MsoNormal"><img src="../blogimages/643580192/pretty-and-punk0001-wedding-advice-celebrant-in-spain (FILEminimizer).png" style="width: 50%;"><o:p></o:p></p><br><p class="MsoCaption">Debbie Skyrme, <a href="https://celebrantspain.es/" target="_blank">Celebrant in Spain</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Author biography: Debbie Skyrme is an award winning celebrant officiating bilingual weddings, elopements and vow renewal ceremonies in the Spanish sunshine.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://celebrantspain.es/">Visit Debbies web site</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/celebrantspain/">Follow Debbie on Facebook</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/celebrantspain/">Follow Debbie on Instagram</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Filmed on location in the Costa Tropical, Spain with grateful thanks to these amazing suppliers:<o:p></o:p></p><p style="background:#FEFEFE"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; font-family:" arial",sans-serif;color:#211b36"="">Wedding Planner:</span><span style="color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext"><a href="http://www.maraday.es/" target="_blank" title="Mar Aday"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; font-family:" arial",sans-serif;color:#cfa83a"="">Mar Aday</span></a></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:" arial",sans-serif;color:#211b36"=""><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background:#FEFEFE"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; font-family:" arial",sans-serif;color:#211b36"="">Photographer:</span><span style="color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext"><a href="http://www.tonibonet.es/" target="_blank" title="Toni Bonet"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; font-family:" arial",sans-serif;color:#cfa83a"="">Toni Bonet</span></a></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:" arial",sans-serif;color:#211b36"=""><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background:#FEFEFE"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; font-family:" arial",sans-serif;color:#211b36"="">Photographer:</span><span style="color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext"><a href="http://www.larajackson.com/" target="_blank" title="Lara Jackson"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:" arial",sans-serif;color:#cfa83a"="">Lara Jackson</span></a></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family: " arial",sans-serif;color:#211b36"=""><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background:#FEFEFE"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; 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