What do you love most about being a wedding officiant on Cape Cod?

" I love being around people in love." This was my immediate answer when a bride-to-be recently interviewed me. Such a good question. I have to admit I'm a hopeless romantic.

Yev and Elina at Brookside Club 

I just love everything about love and weddings.To be a part of the moment, to share in that leap of faith as two people step over the sacred threshold into the state of matrimony. It is just about the greatest thing ever. What's not to love? White roses on a birch bark archway, Nantucket Sound in the background, the spontaneity of the moment, being with two people giving their word in marriage, authentic joy and consecrated commitment. Wow! and it is really fun too!

This Cape Cod Wedding Officiant /Celebrant /Interfaith Minister....

 felt inspired by this quote today especially the dance like Zorba part!

September 24, 2013 Crack yourself open! What use is it to continue to hide behind your facades and roles? Why waste your energy playing games? Isn't it time to cry your tears; to shout your passion; to dance like Zorba; and to let your soul touch the Soul of the world?                                     - William Martin, The Sage's Tao Te Ching

A wedding ceremony can be like this ....full of happy tears, shouting passion, dancing like Zorba, as two souls touch the Soul of the World.

At the first wedding I officiated in October of 2000 at the Dennis Inn, the Groom's Greek family all invited us into their circle for some dancing.  We did dance like Zorba!  I also remember the bride, Kathy, shaking a tail feather, with my husband and our ten yr.old son, to the rousing sounds of the classic, Love Shack. Now that was a moment not to be missed! 

At a ceremony for Kathleen and Ben in 2010 (see Happy Anniversary a few blogs ago) we had a dancer on the tidal flats. He was related to the groom and right before the ceremony he sort of swirled out on to the sands and began to dance. He said later it was he, who warded off the rain. The lovely Julia Cumes caught it on camera. 

 After all my years as a nurse and my work as an Interfaith Chaplain, I pinch myself each morning and say," No,  its not a dream.. You really do get to preside over wedding ceremonies as a profession "- WOW. 

So let's all crack ourselves open and see what emerges. I bet butterflies have to pinch themselves when, each morning, they are sunning their wings.

So let's shout out our passions and perhaps some of you out there may find that in that shouting, comes the quiet realization that you have found the one you love, that you have already chosen the one you want to love above all the rest!  

 Happy Autumn everyone! Here are Erika and Andrew shouting out their passion, as they are pronounced husband and wife, last October at the Wequassett Inn on Cape Cod.