CREATING YOUR CEREONY

Your ceremony is about you, the bride and groom, and your commitment to each other, before God, your family and friends. Imagine having a ceremony that was created for just the two of you: every word chosen to express your values, beliefs, wishes, and unique love story. Now imagine getting to review the text in advance, asking for as many changes as needed. As an ordained minister, I will assist you in integrating your traditions to showcase you on your special day creating a sacred and joyful ceremony of your dreams!

I vow to do things differently.

In addition to wedding ceremonies, I also officiate at occasions such as renewal of wedding vows, baby arrivals, baby dedications, and adoptions.

Location: S. Fla but will travel to your destination

CEREMONY ADD-ONS


ROSE CEREMONY


In the old language of flowers, a single red rose has always meant “I love you”. The Rose ceremony gives recognition to the new and most honorable title of “Wife and Husband”.

In the Rose Ceremony, the Bride and Groom give each other a red rose bud . Two red rose buds are all that is necessary. If you have children involved in the ceremony, you may have a rose for each of them too. The Rose Ceremony is placed near the end of the ceremony just “after” being pronounced husband and wife.



WHITE ROSE CEREMONY

White roses are traditionally associated with marriages and new beginnings, but their quiet beauty has also made them a gesture of remembrance. When the occasion calls for reverence, whether stately or somber, a bouquet of white rose is a perfect way to say, “I’m thinking of you.”

 UNITY CANDLE CEREMONY
The Unity Candle Ceremony is a popular choice for both religious and non-religious ceremonies because it is non-denominational and has no religious significance.


The two outer candles represent your individual lives before today. They represent all that you are from your vast experiences, and they represent your individual families. As you each take a single candle and light the center candle, you will extinguish your individual candles.

Often the Bride will blow out the Groom's taper candle and the Groom will blow out the Brides taper candle. This represents the closing of the chapters in your individual Books of Life and the beginning of new chapters as you begin to write a new book of Life as wife and husband!







HAND FASTING CEREMONY

Hand fasting is an ancient Celtic marriage ritual and it involves tying a piece of tartan, cord, or ribbon around your joined hands as a symbolic way of representing your union as a married couple.  It possibly can be where the expression "tying the knot" came from. 

In the movie "Braveheart" William Wallace (Mel Gibson) and the love of his life, Murron, participate in a hand fasting ceremony.  The original idea was that it was a kind of engagement. The couple would be betrothed for a year and a day before they were married, if they chose to be. If you choose to incorporate this ceremony in your wedding, I make the point of saying that the hand fasting is for life just as the wedding vows you have taken.  

There are various ways for a hand fasting to be done and I will be more than honored and happy to give you ideas.









UNITY SAND CEREMONY

At its simplest, a sand ceremony involves a symbolic blending of two different-colored sands into a single vessel. The meaning is clear: The blending of two different beings, the bride and the groom, into a single, inseparable unit that is their marriage -- the joining of their lives. Hard as it would be to separate out those grains of sand, that's how difficult it is to separate these two people. 
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