All want their wedding to be personal and welcoming, dignified and humorous, profound and celebratory. Such hopes align perfectly with those of Alan Neale who after hundreds of weddings has constantly been praised and thanked for wedding services as never experienced before. Alan believes that the your wedding should express your hopes and expectations for marriage
Well, apparently it’s because “our brains can’t handle it”. Pushing aside the questionable use of university funds for such research, I rather like the concept that the sign of discovered and shared love is just “too much for our brains to handle”. Click: ‘Blind Kissing’
Beware the wedding ideas that grow and grow, and consume time and energy and money. Two Faced Wedding Cake!
For over twenty years marrying couples, preparing them for weddings and marriages, has been a important part of my ministry. Part of the delight in returning to Newport, RI is the opportunity to continue this precious, profound and fun ministry. Some choose to receive Communion, all desire to be blessed! See the suit?… Continue reading
Twenty Nine Years Ago today, my beloved Wendy and I were married – married by civil license in Eastbourne, East Sussex. Subsequently the wedding was blessed by our dear friend and guide, Bishop Peter Ball. Actually our marriage has had the resounding peal of blessing throughout all these years and before… and I know years… Continue reading
It was such a privilege and such fun to marry Sarah and Greg; and a tremendous honor to get to know them as friends. They are people of grace, elegance, fun and integrity. They are blessed and they surely are a blessing also. It is an incredible and awesome privilege to walk with a couple… Continue reading
Many masks are worn at weddings from guests to families to bridal party to the couple to be wed. All this is generally very expensive in financial but also especially emotional and physical terms. The most dysfunctional state is to be unconscious of the mask; but holding onto it for dear life is fearfully unhealthy… Continue reading
As guests were leaving a brunch at our home, one of them commented (mysteriously), “You really learn a lot about people by visiting their homes”. He said no more though said he would soon return the invitation and, I suppose, the opportunity. Anyway, what does the choice of wedding venues say about a couple’s hopes… Continue reading
Click: Super video of extraordinarily super wedding of Mark & Sheika, Boston 2015 Exquisiteeventsdesign.com – creators of all that is exquisite Buzzmediacompany.com – keeping the ‘buzz’ alive
Click here to see how ‘people pleasing’ can affect leaders And, you know, it’s really not difficult to translate this article and comments into the ‘language’ of preparing for a wedding. Inevitably, though sadly, there is enormous pressure on a couple to submit t0 the pressure of ‘wanting to please people’. It’s generally done for… Continue reading
Click: Gender transition services and same-sex weddings call for Church of England Last month the most senior bishops of the Anglican church (leaders of national churches) gathered at Lambeth, London UK to decide imposition of discipline upon the Episcopal Church (USA) for its almost unilateral actions concerning the blessing of LGBTI marriages. I have been… Continue reading