"You're Sure to fall in love with old Cape Cod' Weddings

   First Encounter Beach Eastham -Weddings on Cape Cod Bay

Alex and Kate Share a kiss at Chatham Bars Inn

If you spend an evening you'll want to stay
Watching the moonlight on Cape Cod Bay
You're sure to fall in love with old Cape Cod 
 

So many of the couples that choose to marry on Cape Cod have some connection to this beautiful place.

Some of them are lucky to call Cape Cod home like Kristin ande Greg in the photo above. They married a year ago at the Red Jacket Resort in Yarmouth

This Cape Cod Wedding Celebrant and her husband are blessed to live in Brewster where we have one blinking traffic light in the whole town. Things  haven't changed much since Patti Page sang about quaint little villages, winding roads,lobster stew and the moonlight over Cape Cod Bay- spend an evening you'll want to stay. Jiri and Iveta came all the way from Prague in the Czech Republic  to wed at Crosby Beach in Brewster.

Twenty- five years ago my husband, David and I, did just that. We spent our honeymoon evenings on Cape Cod Bay and years later we decided to stay. 

This past year I received a call from a darling bride, Heather Shea,  who asked if I was available on June 16th to preside over her 'Bloomsday' ceremony in P-town. I was and she was excited that I knew what Bloomsday was. It turned out that her fiance had done his dissertation on James Joyce’s Ulysses. She went on to say that the wedding was being held at her parents inn. We were both blown away when she said that it was the Watermark Inn- that is where my husband and I honeymooned in June of 1988.

Now I have to back -up for you who are scratching their heads about the Bloomsday comment. For you who aren't James Joyce fans, suffice it to say, I had a great time writing and reading in my Irish brogue, 

a stream- of- consciousness poem for Heather and Michael.

                                                          A Bit  Bloomsday:June 16th, 2012 

 With this little bit of history I ‘d like to formally welcome Mike Bryne and Heather Shea  to this Bloomsday wedding celebration day with this beautiful bride and her brilliant groom as they make fast the ties that bind. We find ourselves gathered here at the Watermark Inn, the summer dwelling place of the Family Shea, and imagine a time before, miles away, on another distant shore, a red-haired lad listened to a siren song on an Island Long. As far off but on the same coast east a  flaxen haired beauty fair wandered the beaches of Cape Cod Bay cheeks blushed with salt –spray and the scent of rosa ragosa, beach plum lipped, hair tipped with white gold from sea and sun ,  Even as wee ones the call of the tides the shifting sands of time and fate were drawing them closer unbeknownst to either of them their paths would indeed cross on yet another island  of Manhattan and lead them here to this moment in time

 and they, like so many lucky couples, would be led to wed on Old Cape Cod and someday they too, may spend an evening and want to stay.

"A Dream Come True" Jillian and Christopher say," I Do!"

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Setting in motion many long happy days with

noteworthy achievements and a tender flow-

Like Chris said, “When you know, you know.”

And so we gather here today at the crescent on the bay

To say, “Hooray, Chris and Jill are married today!”

   From the Bride… Chris and I were married at Wequassett Resort on Cape Cod on July 7, 2012, on a humid but otherwise perfect day that was exactly three years, two months, and one day after our first date. We were so excited as our wedding day approached, for the usual reasons of course, but also because weddings play a big role in our lives together. Chris is a wedding photographer by trade, and we actually met when he was hired to photograph my cousin’s wedding (yes, I was a bridesmaid!). A friendship, and eventually love, blossomed as he photographed my sister’s and several additional cousins’ and family friends’ weddings in the years that followed. We both spent lots of time on Cape Cod as children and have wonderful memories of times we’ve spent together down Cape. Chris has worked at Wequassett too many times to count, and deeply respects his friend (and catering director) Kalson Pang’s talent when it comes to coordinating flawless events. Having our wedding on Wequasset’s Croquet Lawn overlooking Pleasant Bay was a dream come true, especially because of the beautiful, deeply-personal ceremony written and delivered by Rev. Kathleen Geagan, complete with an original comedic poem telling the story of our courtship. http://www.nicolechaputphotography.com/

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

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

Orleans Inn on Town Cove

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