The wedding I officiated yesterday was AMAZING. The ceremony consisted only of the couple, the blended family of their 5 children and 2 witnesses, all on a gorgeous summer morning overlooking their rolling farmland in the Gatineau Hills. Honestly, you couldn’t ask for a more perfect setting in which to get married.
It was a simple ceremony, incorporating her Earth-Honouring spirituality, his Chinese background and their new family unit. We had music they chose, one of the older kids helped me with the opening and when it was time, the couple read vows they had hand-picked and had me edit to fit their beliefs. It was so intimate and so special. After the couple’s vows, each of them then took vows for each of their new step-children and gave them a necklace as a token of their new parenthood. The ceremony ended with them dancing as a family to a song they all loved and then going off to a family picnic.
The best thing for me was that the whole ceremony was exactly true to who they are – all the words, all the actions, the setting, everything fitted the very fibre of the participants. Nothing contrived and everything authentic and wonderous. How fun this is!
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