Wellfleet Weddings on Cape Cod

We gather here at Chequessett: a marriage, let's bless it! On Saturday another fabulous family fusion wedding took place at CYCC-Chequessett Yacht and Country Club. This setting on Wellfleet Harbor is perfect for your naturally elegant, quintessential Cape Cod Wedding Ceremony and the couples who embrace this. Here we see The Wards happily having just said,"I do. I do." beneath this Huppah/wedding arch at their fusion wedding ceremony last year. Can't wait to see some photos of Saturday's delightful nuptials which included the Seven Blessings and a Unity Candle as well as a wine ceremony and beautiful blessings from all the family!

This Cape Cod Wedding Celebrant/Officiant muses on

ceremonies close to home on Cape Cod and some far afield. This month I presided over my first wedding in Rhode Island at the Providence Public Library. In this wedding we included the Common Cup and the Stefana Crowning since the groom was from a Greek family. The aunt of the groom did the Common Cup and presented the couple with Rosemary plant. The father of the groom crowned the couple. The bride's  9 year old nephew did a reading and one of the bridesmaid sang Songbird. The setting was elegant with lots of archways and marble staircases.

The bride and groom so beautiful and handsome and heartfelt!

 Now closer to home starting at the Chatham Bars Inn Boathouse. From intimate elopement to more expansive affairs here are some pics! Elopement photos of Erika and Adam and Kerry and Ed

 by Stacey Hedman

Sonnet 116” by William Shakespeare

Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Admit impediments. Love is not love

Which alters when it alteration finds,

Or bends with the remover to remove:

O no! it is an ever-fixed mark

That looks on tempests and is never shaken;

It is the star to every wandering bark,

Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks

Within his bending sickle's compass come:

Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,

But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

If this be error and upon me proved,

I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

  

"we join ourselves to the unknown….You do not know the road; you have committed your life to a way."

                                             and that way is with each other

 ...protect this couple from the storms and challenges of life as they become husband and wife!

 

This Interfaith Wedding Minister loves this

  Daily practice reflection-

One Spirit Learning Alliance 

                                                         

"... loving involves commitment. ... Love does not just happen. ... Love is a choice - ... a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guile ... a willingness to participate with others in the healing of a broken world and broken lives." 

                                                                    Carter Heywood

           

  

 

At interfaith weddings, I am asked to say something about the breaking of the glass at the end of the ceremony.

Here is one of the interpretations.

 

 

 "The crushing of the glass from which the wine of celebration has been shared is a tradition of uncertian origin that suggests many things. Perhaps it suggests that the happiness of the bride and groom is not theirs alone but a part of the universal answer to the brokenness of the world."

  

                             Wine of celebration enjoyed by bride, Sarah

 

  Another blessing wishes that the years of happiness for these two people shall be no less than it would take to fit all the resulting fragments together again."

 

 Sarah and Evan and their jumping for joy wedding party! September 2011

 

Suggestions about meaning of the breaking of the glass are taken from wedding ceremony sample from The New Seminary Training manuel- 2000 -Rev. Diane Berke

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!

Wedding Ceremonies on Cape Cod- This Celebrant wants to share

 a few more memories of fabulous couples who said "I do" in 2013.  

 This couple Adam and Lindsey wed at Sea Crest Resort in Falmouth.They not only wanted to say "I do" but also wanted to honor the way that lead them here to this moment. This is how it was said in the ceremony after the reading Blessing the Boats by Lucille Clifton

As Lindsey and Adam’s travel from this to that they would like to take a moment to acknowledge that this is a celebration and milestone in their relationship. Their promise of being beloved partners started long before today and will grow and change after today. Today marks a crossing of a threshold and is a celebration of the deepening of this love and commitment into marriage.  They would like to acknowledge their commitment before, during and after the marriage ceremony.

So I ask Lindsey and Adam, do you to promise to continue to be beloved partners, as you have been before, now during and after this marriage ceremony?     

                                                            “We did, we do, we will.”

 Photos by Hello Love Photography

http://hellolovephoto.com/blog/lindsey-adam-wedding-at-the-sea-crest-beach-hotel/

Update on Thursday, February 6, 2014 at 11:48AM by Soulful Wedding Ceremonies

Just the two of you saying I do with Lovely Organic Photography Kristin and Joe capturing this heartfelt moment at Race Point. The clouds literally parted and the sun beamed down upon us as these two Ohio Beauties promised to be true! Thank you for your kind words!