Young Women Temple Marriage Activity
Create a meaningful and memorable Young Women activity focused on temple marriage with a spiritual lesson, personal stories, wedding-themed decor, and a fun wedding planning activity.
One of the sweetest parts of serving with the young women is helping the girls understand the blessings and beauty of temple covenants—especially temple marriage.
For this activity, I wanted to create something that felt both sacred and fun. We focused on what actually happens in the temple when you’re sealed and why those covenants matter.
To help bring it all to life, I turned the room into a mini wedding celebration! From displaying my own temple and wedding dresses to letting the girls plan their dream weddings, this activity was full of meaning, laughter, and the Spirit.
Here’s exactly how we set it up, what we taught, and how you can recreate it for your own group.
Just a note: we planned this activity for the older girls in our group who are more interested in weddings than our younger girls. You know your girls best so you can decided who would benefit from this activity the most!
Activity Setup
I wanted this activity to be focused on the temple sealing and what happens in the temple when you get married, so I displayed both my wedding dress and my temple dress.
I included one of my favorite pictures of the Salt Lake Temple along with a cherished wedding gift—our sealing words displayed next to a wedding photo.
To make the display table feel more like a real wedding, I placed a “wedding” cake on a stand in the center as the focal point.
For the second part of the activity, I picked up some simple notebooks from Michael’s for each of the girls to use.
Temple Marriage Lesson
We started off the night by watching this video about What a Temple Marriage is Like and this video that explains what the Temple Endowment is.
Then I had two of my advisors share about their temple sealing and wedding with the girls. They each brought pictures to share and it was fun to compare how my wedding pictures from 13 years ago looked compared to their more recent ones!
This was my favorite part of the night because the Spirit was really strong and it set a good tone for the rest of the activity.
Activity and Treat
After we talked about the temple, we wanted to have the girls plan their future weddings! I always looked forward to my wedding as a teenage girl, and our young women were no different!
The process we used went like this:
- I created a Google Doc with all of the girls’ names on their own page.
- They found photos for their weddings from Pinterest or online with their phones and added them to the Google Doc.
- We organized the photos in real-time to format them to fit. Once everything was organized, I printed out the pages and gave them to the girls to add to their notebooks.
It did end up getting a little messy during the activity because each photo had to be formatted one-by-one. Thankfully one of my advisors volunteered to format everything and she got it done that same night!
If you’ve done this activity before and have a better way to get all of the girls photos, let me know in the comments!
To finish the night we served the “wedding” cake!
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