This Cape Cod Wedding officiant awaits the return of the the light ...

though we have been blessed on Cape Cod with beautiful late, late autumn weather. I was digging in the soft earth today getting the last of my bulbs in the ground and transplanting hardy palms and hydrangeas- Amazing! Now winter solstice is soon to arrive and the return of the light. I met with a darling couple last weekend and will be conversing with another couple who are planning their 2016 wedding. Many of you will become engaged during this holiday season and I look forward to hearing from you two,too!

Erika and Adam say a cozy "I do." at Chatham Bars Inn last winter .

Update on Saturday, January 3, 2015 at 5:29PM by Soulful Wedding Ceremonies

Happy New Year and may love reign supreme in 2015!

Dreaming of Spring- March on Cape Cod

 Snow Drops drooping

 knowing

crocuses clammed up

barely showing

  yikes

 it's really, really snowing!

 waiting, waiting, germinating

soft spring imaginings

pink petals floating

yearning for a different sort of

 purity.

 Meanwhile- smile 

Light a dhuni fire

check your miles

let it be, let it be

no more of this, "We'll see."

Yipee!

 Just booked a flight

  to Miami.

Elopements on Cape Cod

 

This Cape Cod Wedding celebrant/officiant/ interfaith minister loves an elopement, especially at this time of year. Talk about intimacy and low stress.

 Just the two of us, we make it if you try, just the two of us by and by..... I have no idea exactly who sang that song but it comes to mind every time I get a call from a couple who want to elope.

I met with such a couple at Chatham Bars Inn last Saturday. They had come across the lovely photos taken by Stacy Hedman of the elopement pictured here. Stacy will also be the photographer for their upcoming nuptials in Chatham.

Sometimes Just the Two of Us turns into Just a Few of Us which in this case were both sets of parents: this made the ceremony so warm and supportive on this beautiful early December afternoon. That spot right on the water by the boathouse has a view of the sea with fishing boats and trawlers. Also, a dramatic stairway entrance for brides to process down to their groom.  I always like when the bride and groom, even when it is just the two of them, come in separately but process out together. Such a symbolic way of moving from one state to another- from not yet married into the State of Matrimony!

At a small wedding the ceremony is the wedding. The meaning of what you are doing becomes the entire focus.  The choice of words I use to preside over the couple becomes even more important. It is such a precious moment and  in the words of the great poet Wendell Berry, this world needs precious moments more than ever.

 

Update on Friday, November 22, 2013 at 10:23AM by Soulful Wedding Ceremonies

This Cape Cod Wedding officiant / celebrant /interfaith minister presided over an elopement on Wednesday at Chatham Bars Inn and I want to give a shout out to elopements.

   The Ravens, Rachel and Alex wed at Crosby Beach . They are an amazing blues duo. Joseph Geagan, now Artist in Residence at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica Venezia,  photographed them on that amazing March afternoon.

and  'Just a Few of Us' Ceremonies 

     

 Some couples start out with just the two of them but then as it so often happens, they collect witnesses including the darling innkeepers at their bed and breakfast, By the Sea In Dennisport      

And Dan and Dawn at The Seaside Cottages in Yarmouth

photographed by Julia Cumes