Pagan blog promts... handfasting

Greetings to everybody! This is a response to p.b.p. about how i would get married. As i already told you i live in Greece! Here everybody is supposed to be free to choose their religion but when it comes to ceremonies you have to go either greek orthodox,muslim or jewish! Anything else is not recognised by law.
My soulmate is atheist but our families are christians! He does n't care how we get married but they do! I explained him about handfasting and he thinks the symbolism is beautiful. The wedding is supposed to be about the couple! So we are going to have a handfasting ceremony and then we will make it official with a political wedding! This decision is going to piss off a lot of people. But we do n't care! There is no way to make everyone happy and whoever objects is not invited( this includes our parents as well as the rest of the world). It is a bit radical but it is who we are.
As a couple we had to fight a lot. We left home at the age of 19 and that made my dad to not speak to me for two years. We struggled with money, jobs, surviving while we were finding out we were on our own. It turned out okay because our feelings were true and we feel blessed everyday. It is us against the rest of the world. We have n't found yet the exact spot we want it to happen but we know it is going to be in the forest. We want it to be during the summer( since it is outdoors!). We have no idea who is going to perform it. I want it to be a woman, but i do not know any wiccans! But i have faith that the opportunity will be shown to us the right moment!I want to wear a green dress with cream details and him with cream simple shirt and a cream pair of pants! Right there in the woods we will have a picnic, nothing fancy but with lots of wine! Our friends(most of them musicians like us)will bring with them acoustic organs and we will all play and sing in the forest. At least this is how i am imagining it. We are not rushing anything because we already feel married but i checked it and it is a good astrological day the first of august of 2010(on Lammas). Only problem he is Libra and Saturn will be on Libra by then. Maybe i am overthinking it but i want it to be blessed by the powers of the universe. Tell me what you think! Be blessed my friends!