Commitment ceremony?
Hi! My partner and I have been talking about getting married and have agreed we want to. The problem is that we are both disabled with serious health issues and neither of us can afford to lose our health insurance, and if we combine our incomes, she almost certainly would lose it, and I might. So we talked about doing a commitment ceremony. But I'm worried we won't be able to find anyone to officiate for it because of us being two women and not doing the legal route. We also want a handfasting (I"m Wiccan and she's Pagan) which makes it trickier.
Has anyone done a commitment ceremony? We want to do everything basically exactly the same, we just won't be signing the paperwork at the end. We plan on having a very small wedding- probably about 25 people at most, and all are close enough to tell why we aren't doing the legal wedding. Still, I'd like to hear people's stories. TIA!