The Protestant Wedding Sourcebook: A Complete Guide for Developing Your Own Service

Sidney Batts encourages ministers to work with engaged couples to create unique, individual services that will be meaningful to the pair on their wedding day. The couple is able to give a personal touch to their ceremony by having many options from which to choose. The end result of the minister’s and couple’s efforts is a service that retains what is best of traditional form and language, but does not include unnecessarily archaic or sexist terms.