If I divvy up my wedding budget I’m allotted $500 for my reception and ceremony location fee. Any ideas? I’m planning on having about 75ppl present (including wedding party). I live in middle ga. I would like to have my ceremony and reception at the same venue. I’d like to get married somewhere other than a church, my dad is an ordained minister and we are going to get him to officiate the wedding. Thanks, I’m open to all suggestions!

So my boyfriend and I are not religious and were planning on having a Justice of the Peace preform our wedding ceremony. However, a friend from work is an ordained minister and willing to do our ceremony. Does anyone know how this works. Does she have to preform a traditional religious ceremony or is she allowed to preform a more secular ceremony?
P.S. She knows that we are not religious.
We are having a traditional-like ceremony. We have a beatiful location booked and 100 guests will be invited to attend. So it will be somewhat traditional, just minus the religious content. We have nothing against spiritual ceremonies, but it is not really us. I just find it difficult to ask a minister to exclude religious content from the wedding ceremony. And were she is a friend I do not want to offend her in any way. I am afraid that taking God out of the ceremony will seem like I disrespect her beliefs. Do you think that this will be disrespectful.