Sunday, June 13, 2021 at 12:25PM The Country of Marriage by Wendell Berry
"Our life reminds me of a forest comfortable shades and flowers..."
A June Garden wedding,
unmasked made anew
richer for having gone through
courageous couples embracing
hope
as love prevails and sails them 'from this to that!'
Blessing of the boats
each other
We thank you God for enabling us to reach this moment.
Rev. Kate
Monday, February 22, 2021 at 11:38AM A Belated Happy Valentine's Day to all, I wrote a little poem previously reread it and .....Yikes I'm rusty! or should I say, "rustic chic."
I imagine for many of you it has been a year of having and holding one another. A time like no other, letting go of idealized expectations, dreams delayed, priorities shifted and with great patience, a time to forge unbreakable ties. I honor all of you in this challenging time. But now there is hope that not only will ceremonies take place but the celebrations that go with them.
I know all of you are looking forward to more freedom and fun in 2021.
As I stare out at our snow covered lawn, hibernation comes naturally. I am keeping my schedule flexible to accomodate the unpredictable. Most importantly, to facilitate the remaining couples who have rescheduled with me, some repeatedly.
I'm available now to write ceremonies and love to do so. Coaching a one day officaint is really rewarding. Some couples have opted for a one day officiant to preside, someone who is family or perhaps in their pod. This is a safe option and oh, so family centered.
Rusty or not, we begin again, at least on pretty paper if not in person until June. Let me help make your ceremony sing: soulful, spot -on and fun.
Sincerely,
Rev. Kate -Kathleen Geagan of Soulful Ceremonies
Friday, November 13, 2020 at 5:38PM I often tell couples to practice patience for as Wendell Berry says "Patience joins time with eternity."
Tuesday, September 22, 2020 at 10:13AM Wow Summer 2020 the best of times the worst of times. Best how? you might ask. We whittle down to the essentials and find that love prevails. A quote from Meher Baba:
Pure love is matchless in majesty, it has no parallel in power and there is no darkness it cannot dispel.
We know now that gathering together inside, in big groups, is taunting a virus that taints our air. Now we know that if we must marry on for any number of good reasons we must party on some time next year. So many dashed plans, so many re-arrangements, so many recalibrations of emotional pitch and energy. It is exhausting. I support and admire all my couples who are showing common sense for the common good. Thank you!
Don and Jennifer enter the country of marriage. (Is it ten years ago?)
Justin and Allison crossing the threshold of life becoming husband and wife! (2018?)
Before spring of 2019 these weddings seems like a carefree time with no masks, no underlying fear of spread of something other than the love vib. The truth is weddings are stressful in the best of times but we will never take for granted so much again. These are the days and we must care more for each other and less about our unmet expectations of how it should be.
You are now essential to one another. In uncertian times you become each other's one sure thing. It can be about the party later and oh what a celebration we shall have!!!!!!!
Pavel and Annie dip at their wedding at the Cape Cod Cultural Center
Love carries on; it is the contagious remedy.
Be safe, be sweet and remain essential to each other. - Rev. Kate
(Next entry will be more practical in nature. I will describe safe options for cermonies.Paring down to essentials, wearing masks and also let's push for more rapid testing so the essential need to gather together can be safe. Pure love will pull us through.)
Rev. Kate
Thursday, April 9, 2020 at 11:55AM 
The day will come again when we can gather beneath an immense sky and beside the waters of our lovely earth and give our word to each other in marriage. Here we see this Maine Attractive couple as they take their vows on Southport Island.
On Marriage - Rilke
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.
