The Ceremony: It was a mixture of traditional and nontraditional elements. The general format was traditional, such as the question of intent, vows (which we wrote), and the ring exchange. For the nontraditional aspects, we said a Native American prayer and had a tying-the-knot ceremony, which entailed the two of us holding our hands out in the form of an infinity symbol. Then the officiant tied a ribbon around our unified hands to symbolize an eternal union between the two of us. We also had strings on all the guests’ seats. They knotted those together at the end of the ceremony and left them in a box to symbolize their support for our union.