I admit it! I am totally bragging here. I just received Wedding Wire’s Choice award for 2012! I am so proud and I am so happy. Who knew last January, 2011, when this calling was just a sketchy idea, that … Read More
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Logistics and your Wedding Venue
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| The wedding officiant–me–has stepped aside |
Until I actually started my business as a wedding officiant, I never talked much with wedding photographers, djs, wedding planners, venue owners, caterers and the like. Officiating at weddings was only a small part of … Read More
The Secret Garden
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| The groom passed over the bridge to the waiting wedding guests |
When I was twelve or so, one of my favorite books was The Secret Garden, a novel written by Frances Hobson Burnett in 1911. I can ‘t relay
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Getting that New Cell Phone
Dear Engaged Couple—Recently I have had problems with my cell phone. Now, just to set the stage let me tell you that I depend on my cell phone for EVERYTHING. I do not have a
… Read More Equality in Marriage?
Dear soon-to-be-brides—
Note, today I am not intending to speak to the other half of the couple, as I usually do—“Dear Engaged couple.” That is because I want to talk about women TO women—and their changing role (or not) Dog Day Afternoon
Dear Engaged couple—
Occasionally it comes up when I meet with a couple to plan their wedding ceremony: “We want to have our dog up front with us when we say our vows.” It’s a nice thought, although until I
… Read More Families
Dear Engaged Couple,
This week I have been working with a family to plan and execute a funeral service for the family matriarch. The deceased was elderly and in poor health, but of course, those facts really do not ease
… Read More It’s All in the Details
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| Flowers from Pharsalia’s many gardens |
What a wedding it was! This weekend I officiated at a beautifully planned wedding at a plantation home in Tyro, Virginia. Tyro. That’s about an hour and fifteen minutes south of Charlottesville. The plantation home,
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