Fresh Bride

Butterfly Brides.

This butterfly MUST be getting married today.  Just look her dress!

courtesy of AstidL from Beltrum, Netherlands as seen at www.flickr.com

Call for Wedding Photos.

Do you have a favorite wedding photo that captures an usual ritual or special ceremonial element -- yours or a friend's or relative's?  If so, this is your official invitation to send it to me for posting on this blog.  Be sure to include a caption that explains the action and your "ok to publish" the photo!  (370 pixels wide is best.)

Call for Stories.

Do you have a favorite wedding ceremony story? 

I'd love to hear it!!  Send it my way: tracy@ceremonies.info

Best stories will be published here (with your permission).

Amandari.

Have you and your fiance travelled anywhere exotic and memorable?  One couple I'd worked with had gone to Bali and fallen in love not only with each other, but with the Balinese phrase "amandari," which means "kindred spirits."  So I used this phrase in a blessing I offered them for their marriage.  It ended with this wish: "May you always live as amandari -- kindred spirits."

Now as they reflect on their wedding ceremony, they will be reminded of the romance they kindled in Bali -- a touchstone for rekindling their romance time and again as the years go by.