Cape Cod Weddings

My husband and I were married in Connecticut at the Rowayton Library and Community Center 26 years ago today. At the time it was our home town and just a few blocks from where we lived. It was a gorgeous evening we could hear the Lacrosse Game in the field next door. My step son even dragged his dad off for a quick game of catch as the rest of us sipped Thousand Flowers chardonney and danced the evening away.

I have had the honor in the last few weeks to do some hometown weddings here in beautiful Brewster by the Bay.

 June 14th at 'Bloomfield' in the beautiful gardens of the bride and groom's home.

Yesterday I presided over a wedding on Cape Cod Bay at Breakwater Beach in Brewster.

Rainer Marie Rilke-On marriage--
The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries; on the contrary, a good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude, and thus they show each other the greatest possible trust. and once the realization is accepted that even between the closest people infinite distances exist, a marvelous living side-by-side can grow up for them, if they succeed in loving the expanse between them, which gives them the possibility of always seeing each other as a whole and before an immense sky. 

This quote was read both in German and English by the fathers. We also read Gift from the Sea with the theme of love's everchanging constant nature and how marriage is the durable seaworthy vessel that navigates the changing tides. After 26 years both these readings hold so true. 

" a marvelous living side-by-side  "

 "through all kinds of weather, what if the sky should fall,

just as long as were together

it doesn't matter at all....."

Side -by- side, wing- to- wing, oar- to- oar ....best be getting back to my hubby to watch the College World Series. And tomorrow the big soccer match then the weekends brings lots of weddings.

More on that later.

- Kathleen