I'm looking forward to my collaring ceremony. I have done lots of research on these subjects and TG is right that the opinions and how to vary greatly.

We have a contract that we will go over for our first year and sign once were in real life. We took one we liked and modified it to suit what we wanted.

The collar is something I about drove my Dom crazy with. I was against having something that looked like an obvious fetish collar for everyday life. I sent my poor Dom more links on different collars. The training collar for private I didn't care about, but the one I wear to the store or work I didn't want it so obvious I would get stares from people. *Fairly shy about exposing myself*

When we have our ceremony after our first year together we will design a collar for me and a ring for him that will symbolize our forever commitment to each other. I am sure that will be lots of fun.

As for our vows I agree that writing your own is best. I also don't plan to ever say the word doth or forewith.