Happy New Year- A big week for Proposals

Hello young lovers wherever you are-

Happy New Year! The newly engaged are beginning to contact me filling me with the sweet tidings for the New Year of Weddings. My husband proposed to me on top the Empire State Building 25 years ago (actually in March but it felt  like New Years Eve to me.)

 I already had one couple come see me on New Year's Eve who had just become engaged a week before on Christmas Eve. Thanks to Ed Maas at the Orleans Inn they had already secured their venue, their flowers, a DJ and 'moi' as their Officiant. I was so inspired after they left , I worked on their ceremony , including the Inn Rules ( which hang on the wall in the lobby of the Orleans Inn) and sent off a draft of their September Wedding. This couple's sweet enthusiasm was delightfully contagious!

                                                                         Inn Rules

Always be honest-

 Bear each other’s burdens-

 Be Kind and Tender Hearted

 Comfort one another

 Keep Your Promises

  Be True to Each Other

 Look after each other

 Treat each other like you treat your friends

 But most of important

                                                      Love one another

                                                  Deeply from the Heart

 If you are looking for rings...http://www.minterandrichterdesigns.com/blog/

Update on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 at 6:07PM by Soulful Wedding Ceremonies

Orleans Inn on Town Cove

Weddings from 2012 : Nina and Hong- Wychmere Harbor- June Nuptials

Update on Saturday, December 29, 2012 at 9:40PM by Soulful Wedding Ceremonies

Nina and Hong wrote their own vows which wowed everyone, most importantly each other.

Remember a vow is a promise and the marriage ritual is built around the ancient rite of "pledging your troth" in other words solemnly promising to be faithful to one another. It is essential that oath of fidelity, said in your own words from the heart is contained within your vows. Then you are free to have some fun with the other words you say to each other while maintaining the essential meaning of the marriage.

"troth [trəʊθ]
n Archaic
1. a pledge or oath of fidelity, esp a betrothal
2. truth (esp in the phrase in troth)
3. loyalty; fidelity
[Old English trēowth; related to Old High German gitriuwida loyalty; see truth]

Sweet Tidings

  

Sweet Tidings as the 2012 Wedding Season sails off into the Sunset. It has been a year of imperishable sweetness  for me and such a pleasure to preside over so many wonderful wedding ceremonies on Cape Cod.

This week this Cape Cod Wedding Officiant is sorting through the ceremonies of 2012 and making way for more Sweet Tidings to come in 2013.

Marriage is a safe harbor where we can learn about ourselves in the presence of another. 

In making way for the new I reviewed all the lovely notes that I have received over this year and felt full of Sweet Tidings, as Erika and Andrew put it on their holiday greeting card.  They wed at Wequassett on Round Cove, a Safe Harbor on Pleasant Bay where Andrew grew up sailing and fishing.

From Wychmere to Wequassett from Chatham Bars to Chequessett-  A marriage let's bless it!

Anam Cara Couples and warm memories of Summer Nuptials

Hi Kathleen,

We started the morning in a whirlwind of planning, chores, decorating etc and both agreed we would STOP what we were doing to focus on our priorities, which is why we are emailing. We have thought of you so often since our wedding (almost 6 months, can you believe it?!) and have written you many times in our minds. We both break into grins when we think of our very memorable wedding day with record breaking heat, near-fainting relatives, park rangers on 4 wheelers, and most importantly, the poignancy, humor, and soulfulness of our ceremony. Did we tell you we had our wedding bands engraved after the wedding? The inscription? "Anam Cara." Of course.

You are a person we will always cherish, and we just wanted to say hello. We want to stay in touch and we definitely hope to see you whenever we are in MA or if you are in the DC area. We hope you are doing well, and that your family is enjoying the joys of the holidays.

Love and Christmas cheer,
Bob and Lil

Winter Wedding Ceremonies

Having just returned from Chatam Bars Inn where Edward and Kerry 'tied the knot'  I can attest to the fact that off- season yet seasonal weddings on Cape Cod are truly magical. Gone are the summer crowds yet all the breathtaking beauty remains; the boats swaying in their winter bays and the Christmas lights glimmering. All the intimacy and romance without the stress.

So if you are newly engaged and thinking of eloping there are so many beautiful places to say 'I do" here on Cape Cod- before the fire or on the beach not far from a hearth waiting to receive you as a newly married couple. So cozy!