The plans and preparations for your wedding can be stressful, or they can seem just endless——even though they may be neither in retrospect. On your special day you build a wonderful memory, and all that goes into making it special will fall into perspective.
How can you make sure this happens?
Your wedding ceremony can truly be an expression of all that represents why you and your mate-to-be are getting married. Its ideas, words and processes can reflect the depth of joy and hope and trust that each of you is investing in celebrating your marriage.….All that can go into your wedding ceremony! It is a time to create a special event in your life. It can say who you are, what you stand for, and what you hope for in your marriage! A wedding ceremony ought NOT to be a platform for others to tell their story; it is YOUR PLATFORM to tell YOURS!
You and your mate-to-be can come from different religious backgrounds, different geographical regions, different professions and work experiences, different ethnic backgrounds, and certainly different ways of living and being. Even your gender differences make you distinctive!
Your wedding is your opportunity to gently honor and include these differences, to honor your family history and traditions and acknowledge your special way of being by developing your unique ceremony.
You each bring your own richness in spirit and style to your marriage. And your ceremony creates for you a major opportunity to affirm it all!
You can and should have your say, yes YOUR say, in who and what you are and what you want to be. Express your deeper joy and being! Make it YOUR wedding ceremony! Create and do that which affirms both of you, and the way you want your marriage to be!
Care in selecting someone to officiate at your wedding is crucially important since you will want someone to honor your ways, and to help you create a unique ceremony that reflects all of what you are and want to be. Remember, there are few moments in your life that are as important to you as your wedding day. Make it deeply and richly your own, and express in your ceremony what the two of you are, and are now also becoming!
All of us who are partners in Community Ministers wish you a most happy and wondrous marriage celebration. May your ceremony be a joyous and meaningful expression of your lives together!
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