Seaside Spring Weddings

 As the blizzard warnings blow in I feel compelled to post about Seaside Spring Weddings. First of all I love the alliteration, all those lovely ssssss like soft breezes, pink sand and blossoms-at this point such imaginings are survival techniques, a willingness to hope for spring .

 The Setting for another Chatham Bars Inn 'Beside the Boathouse'  wedding ceremony  

 So glad to say just last Saturday I presided over a wedding ceremony for a super smooth sailing couple- they were the ultimate of Sweet Simplicity. I had never met them but they promptly sent a deposit and their responses to the wedding questionnaire and we were off and running. They said they trusted me to put together a fitting ceremony so no necessity to see a draft.

http://www.chathambarsinn.com/ 

We met for the first time minutes before the ceremony and all was well. The bride looked so lovely she had a little white fur wrap that she bravely surrendered for the wedding ceremony. The guest numbered about eight including a bedazzling ring bearing beauty who did her duty in grand fashion. No photos yet but I'll insert the setting and some pink flowers to soothe our snow weary souls.

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

This Cape Cod Celebrant loves poetry in a wedding ceremony

Fidelity to Love- Hafiz

Your fidelity to love, that is all you need,

No day will then match your strength.

What was once a fear or problem will see

You coming, and step aside….or run.

This fidelity to love means you now walk through life with your  true love beside you. One with whom you can laugh and cry, grow old and feel forever young. We bless you on your way-

Photography by Julia Cumes

The Processional: HERE COMES THE BRIDE!

                    

Update on Wednesday, January 29, 2014 at 4:42PM by Soulful Wedding Ceremonies

                                                                                           THE CEREMONY

Often I am asked by couples for an outline of the ceremony. So here is a simple guide.

Processioal

Welcome and Gathering Words

Readings

Consent

Exchange of Vows and Rings

Blessing

Pronoucement of Marriage

Kiss

Presentation

Recessional

A Soulful Wedding Ceremony wishes you A Happy New Year

 

Here are some wedding couples who said, " I do" in 2013. And went on to seal their vows with a kiss!