Episode 23

Magic Import: Turning Their Draft Into a Real Script

October 22, 2026 23 min

How officiants turn messy couple drafts into performable ceremony scripts — without becoming a midnight retyping service.

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About this episode

Couples send novels, PDFs, and voice notes — you should not retype them. In this episode of Wedding Studio by You Had Me At I Do, Mike and Jen cover intake hygiene, what to preserve vs sanitize, Word paste junk, block structure, reviewing with the couple after import, and the liability of performing their words. Brought to you by Studio — including Magic Import and Ceremony Builder.

Based on

Magic Import: Turning Couple Drafts Into Ceremony Scripts Without Retyping Everything

Show notes

Mike and Jen on turning couple-supplied drafts into altar-ready scripts without retyping every paragraph by hand.

The intake problem

Formats: Google Docs, PDFs, screenshots, voice memos, and “we wrote something in Notes.”
Noise: fonts, colors, comments, tracked changes, and pasted web text.
Risk: losing a promised phrase while cleaning formatting.

Preserve vs sanitize

Preserve: names, vows, readings, promises, and any line they said must stay.
Sanitize: inline fonts, mixed sizes, empty spans, and layout that fights tablet reading.
Structure: welcome, story, readings, vows, rings, pronouncement — blocks you can cue.

Review and liability

Send a clean draft back for confirmation before wedding week.
Their words remain theirs — you are the editor and performer, not the ghostwriter of legal vows unless asked.
Magic Import and Ceremony Builder in Studio are built to start from their draft, then let you shape a script you can lead from.

Tips & suggestions

Ask for one master draft — not five competing versions in email threads.
Preserve meaning and approved wording; sanitize fonts, sizes, and Word junk.
Structure into blocks before polishing prose.
Review the imported script with the couple before rehearsal.
Document what came from them vs what you suggested.
Never invent legal language they did not approve.

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