Dear friends,
I just did a wedding ceremony where the bride’s mother had given her daughter a dove release as a present. It was really beautiful. The beauty was augmented by the beauty of the site. The vista was unbelievable. You could see for miles, the weather was a bit capricious and all across this wide valley were thunder showers and sun showers. (Luckily we were in the midst of the sun showers!) But when the doves took off, they took off into fairly constant winds, so you could see them work a bit to move off towards home. Separate then together. It was gorgeous!
You can look for me to do something about a poem or prose for the doves, because what I’ve seen on the net has been pretty ooshy-gooshy, and you know me, I’m not an ooshy-gooshy kinda wedding priestess!
You’re fabulous. You deserve fabulous symbols to support your wedding vows and your marriage!
Ann
Dear Brides
Are you watching this series? It’s been wonderful. As is always the case with Lyn Johnson, she focuses on the human. You don’t have to always agree with her, but you have to laugh!
One of the things I’ve loved about this run is the way that they’re making a community affair. Everyone’s a lot happier because everyone’s participating. Just because it came from a comic strip doesn’t mean it’s bad advice!
Ask the people who love you to play in your wedding lalapaloosa! Why should you be the only one having a good time?
Ann
Dear Brides,
I can’t endorse entirely since I haven’t used it or seen it used. But if I had known they existed, I would have used them! What a great idea this is: www.liveweddingbroadcast.tv
So many of us have people from far away who can’t make it to our wedding and who would love to watch. This is a way for them to be present. It doesn’t solve the interaction thing which is so important in my weddings, but it does allow them to be there.
I solved the interaction piece with a cell phone. But this would have been a much better way for my new daughter to be at our wedding. darn. missed it. maybe we should do it again!
Go ahead and experiment. as long as things don’t get in the way of the wedding ceremony, see how you can bring folks at a distance closer. You’d need a phone card in your computer to make this work at most wedding venues, but it might be worth it!
More great stuff ahead!
Ann
Hello brides,
Tonight it’s a full and beautiful moon over the Susquehanna and wherever you’re happening to be. If you’re reading this and you’re with your sweetie - go outside, it’s 9:30 pm and the moon is about to rise on the East Coast.
Why not consider incorporating the Full Moon into your ceremony? Talk about it, and what the moon means (and each full moon means something different). But enjoy making it a part of your reception as well.
And if you take the full moon to mean something like the fullest expression of your love, then you can pretty much count on the moon’s reminding you of how much you love one another 13 times a year, every year for every year of your life. And that’s how long you want to be married!
Should work in your favor, eh?
Ann
Hello, my friends!
Life on the lead up to the wedding ceremony is hectic and stressful. Stop for a quick blessing counting. However annoying it is that we aren’t perfectly svelte (or if we are by some odd chance or huge amount of sweating and lack of eating soothing chocolate pie, our perfectly svelte is perfectly different from just a few years ago — huh, how did they get down there?) or that the patissier refuses to make your mocha peanut butter carrot cake, (more…)
Hello, Friends!
Well, i’ve been working hard over at ezine.com (whew, so many places on the site to keep updating!) and I reached my first goal of 100 articles. You can see them all and any new ones I get up while I’m updating the articles page on the site. I have lots of free content (more…)
Whoopee! 6 mos ago on Saturday at 3:15 p.m., the feather fairies started down the aisles.
we’ve been watching the video (no we still haven’t figured out how to upload, but school starts school and there’s probably a fifth grader who wants to take over the site management. sheesh!) and reveling in how very happy and lucky we are!
life is grand and so are all of you!
ann
Dear Friends,
OK, I admit it. I’m just a little frustrated. I’ve been poking around on an article directory looking at what people are reading about when they’re thinking about their wedding.
Here’s what they’re not reading about: (more…)
Dear Ones,
What about using bells to make sound?
One of my couples gave everyone tiny little bells to ring when they kissed. It was lovely.
Steve and I gave one another gongs to symbolize (cymbalize?!!) the river of love (and the river of sound) that flows between us. Cymbals are an amazing way to change the moment.
Some churches will ring their steeple bells at the end of a wedding. What a joyous sound when they ring and ring and ring.
Life is rich and we should call upon its richness and celebrate it in as many ways as we can!
You can do this too! Your love deserves nothing less!
Believing in you and your love,
Ann
Dear Ones,
So, the first thought about sound is the presence of it. But consider using the absence of it at your wedding.
If you’ve just said something meaningful let it linger in the silence. If you’re about to say something meaningful, let the silence lead up to it. Ask a blessing and let people sit in contemplation for a moment.
Then use music or poetry to bring the silence to an end.
Make it a moment!
Life is rich and we should call upon its richness and celebrate it in as many ways as we can!
You can do this too! Your love deserves nothing less!
Believing in you and your love,
Ann
