This doesn’t mean that your wedding should be any less special, though. Having a civil ceremony can be just as elegant as a traditional wedding if you keep these three things in mind.

We are planning a simple civil ... wedding as we prefer to invest the money we would have spent. We will be happy with a marriage certificate as legal proof that we underwent the ceremony.

If this is your first wedding as a marriage officiant, you'll need to get ordained. You may have heard that you can get ordained online. Luckily, it is pretty simple to make that happen.