Weddings and Life Celebrations

Wedding Ceremony Services
Designed to meet your needs and desires, the essence of any Ceremony is to validate you on your new period of growth. You grow in your relationship space when you declare your sacred marriage vows during a wedding ceremony. Our lives are much fuller when they can be shared with another, and it is through our relationships that we grow as human beings. The basic structure of the services are based on the powerful, uplifting words of prayer and hope from author Marianne Williamson in “Illuminata: A Return to Prayer”. Quotes and prayers with special significance to you and your life partner can be incorporated into the service. Your personal beliefs are honored. I offer assistance in personalizing your wedding vows and ceremony content.

Below is an excerpt from the Wine Ceremony:

A miracle is a spiritual event produced by the power of God. As to the miracles performed by Jesus, the first record begins with that miracle at a wedding in Cana, when Jesus turned water into wine. It was one of the few instances where a miracle was performed by Jesus among His family. The miracle we witness today, is this display of faith and love shared by all of us gathered here to bless this sacred union. As has been written, “The Conscious Water knew its Lord, and it blushed”.

Wine is a symbol of life.

By sharing this glass, two become one, a part of the whole, each separate, yet united in love.

A Celebration of Life Ceremony acknowledges when a life ends a cycle, bringing closure by the shedding of the physical body, while embracing the new life of the Spirit everlasting. Funeral services are designed to meet the wishes of family and friends. All personal beliefs are honored. Paula Barnes honored her mother, Jeffri McCoy Robins, with this beautiful poem during her services:

To laugh often and much;
To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;
To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;
To appreciate beauty;
To find the best in others;
To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition;
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

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