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    Entries in Cape Cod Celebrants /Officiants and Officiants (4)

    Saturday
    Aug152015

    This Cape Cod Wedding minister/officiant reflects on Anticipation: The Groom

    August is all about a sense of urgency and anticipation. Cape Cod is at full capacity as we reach mid -August. Everyone is eager to get their last huge dose of summer anticipating the onset of September and the beginning of the school year.

    Last evening I presided over a wedding at Chatham Bars Inn . I don't have any photos yet but I am still on a high from the love I felt between this couple and their families. Love truly does transform everyone it touches!

    Jeff and Lacy, the wedding party and many of the guests were from Austin,Texas. They were a great fun- loving crowd.The groomsmen including the groom's brother as best men, were trying in every way to keep the groom calm and happy as we waited. Kate, from CBI helped pin on the boutineirres made from a beautiful spray of blue thistle. I had the honor of helping with this ritual as well. I pinned the step-father and father who were waiting to walk the bride down the aisle after her grand entrance down those white steps from Shore Rd to the Boathouse. 

    Here are some photos of groom and groomsmen. What a blast I had with Pavel and his brother and groomsmen before he wed his beautiful bride Anna on Summer Solstice at the The Cultural Center of Cape Cod.

    The photos above are by Andrew Cavanaugh Photography

    The photo below was an expectedly tender one as Sarah and Josh exchanged vows

     As the officiant I get to spend time waiting with the groom and his groomsmen right before the ceeremony. The myriad of ways the groomsmen attempt to ease the groom's jitters is always so dear and often amusing. I keep my counsel and distance but I do love those moments of anticipation.

    Another great moment I shared with a groom and his men was at a wedding last month at beautiful Borsari Gallery in Dennis. We were waiting in the wine cellar and the groom was worried about his hands swelling and the ring not fitting. I showed him a stretching exercise and Bob Borsari and the best man immediately said,  "Jazz Hands."  So here is a pre-marital tip: Do "Jazz Hands" as you wait for the ceremony to begin and the ring slips right on the finger.


    Watching the groom's face as his bride appears is also pure delight. Even if they have seen each other before at first look, there is that moment of her being escorted to him that speaks to an ancient and timeless rite of passage.

    Every beginning contains an ending and every ending gives way to another beginning. So too with a wedding ceremony. So I encourage my couples to allow those feelings of anticipation to be. Yes, this sweet anticipation can feel like anxiety and of course there is that. No matter how many times we have run through the ceremony it doesn't really take. Let your self be presided over.

    When I stopped in to check in on the bride she had just one question

    "You will be telling me everything I need to do once I get up there ,won't you?"

    "Yes, I will."  You could see the anxiety melt into sweet anticipation as she turned to have her photo taken holding up the shoes she was about to put on.  

    "Yes, I will." I repeated as I crept off to hang with the groom and tell him exactly the same thing, more than once, in between group groomsmen hugs and a variety of other rituals. 

    I have the groom's grandfather to thank for this referral and it was a pure pleasure to preside. Happy August YOU-LL

    and don't worry- be married!

    Kathleen

     

    Wednesday
    Mar192014

    A Cape Cod Wedding: Anam Cara Couples-Soulful and Sincere

     

    For Marriage by John O’Donohue

     From to Bless the Space Between Us

     

     As spring unfolds the dream of earth,

    May you bring each others hearts to birth.

     

    As the ocean finds calm in view of land,

    May you love the gaze of each other’s mind.

    As the wind arises free and wild,

    May nothing negative control your lives.

     

    As kindly as moonlight might search the dark,

    So gentle may you be when light grows scarce.

     

     As surprised as the silence that music opens,

    May your words for each other be touched with reverence.

     

    As warmly as the air draws in the light,

    May you welcome each other’s every gift.

     

    As elegant as dream absorbing the night,

    May sleep find you clear of anger and hurt.

     

    As twilight harvest all the day’s color,

    May love bring you home to each other.

    Wednesday
    Feb122014

    Hearth side at the Brewster Homestead Miranda and Michael Wed.

    So before the next storm blows into Cape Cod

     I want to spread the happy news that Michael and Miranda wed

     hearth side at their Brewster homestead. This is what I know

    in Costa Rica five years ago

    the surf was up and hanging ten toes,

    Michael spied Mirrrronda from his surf board perch

    and hit the worldwide web for words to search

    His English a bit stuttery but his words far from muttery,

    "I like your smile and, Mirrronda, I love saying your name."

     and after that- things were never the same..

     better, much better, though sometimes a sludge

    to get through red-tape to declare their love.

    So keep researching ways to express and spread a smile

    surf and fly over waves and miles,

     have a swell after swell married life

    proudly declaring,

     "this is my husband, this is my wife."

     Thank you to the amazing Julia Cumes for these wonderful photos. How lucky is Miranda ( and Mark) for having you in their lives!

    Thursday
    Oct102013

    Diane and Steve wed at the Belfry Inne and Abbey

     

     This Cape Cod Wedding Celebrant had the pleasure of presiding over a wedding at the Belfry Inne in Sandwich last Saturday

     A perfect place for this nature-loving duo, Diane and Steve, had faith that the day would clear, the clouds part and the October sun would shine softly on their faces.       

     And so it was.  October is their favorite month and the autumn garden reflects their love story.

     Diane is such a grace-filled and graceful lady in every sense of the word.  Steve is a wicked charming Irishman; his quips and side comments during the ceremony were so obviously intended to relax his beautiful emotional bride.

      This couple was so poem worthy theirs was a triple poetry infused ceremony.

      The Country of Marriage by Wendell Berry

     ….our life reminds me

     Of a forest in which there is a graceful clearing

     And in that opening a house

     An orchard and garden

     Comfortable shades and flowers ........ 

     

     

     

     

     

      

     

    Ode to Diane and Steve

     There was a spark at that first meeting at the Chatham Town Hall

     Undaunted Diane spoke way up, for Steve was oh so tall 

     Diane thought … now here’s a man with a plan

     Interesting, comfortable   Yes, he could be a friend

     they set off on adventures like kayaking the Charles

     Not knowing what lay beyond the river’s bend. 

       

     

      In the Autumn Garden  

     

    No not in the spring garden with its long-awaited rush of new life, 

     nor in the cacophony of summer’s hectic humming boom

     but here in the Autumn garden,

     with pumpkin- colored nasturtiums

     wending their way towards the light,

     Sedum and mums in bloom, yes

     yes, this feels right.

     in this place of quiet brilliance

     muted whisperings of winter on its way

     there is time, but none to waste,

      so give your love full sway.

     

                                                                                  In the Autumn Garden

                                                                                           at the Abbey

                                                                                Diane and Steve are wed today.