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The only comprehensive guide for planning your ceremony, your way! Offering an abundance of elegant and heartfelt choices for ceremony elements, ten full sample ceremonies, and often-overlooked logistics, this is the absolute essential guide for anyone designing a wedding ceremony. Expert guidance helps you tailor your ceremony to your situation and beliefs. Includes downloadable text options and worksheets for ultimate convenience. Praise for The Wedding Ceremony Planner: "Weddings are sacred acts surrounded by material hoopla. The Wedding Ceremony Planner clarifies the worldly issues but keeps the spirit central. It's the balance that every couple needs."—Marianne Williamson, author of The Gift of Change "With countless samples of ceremony segments and worksheets to put them all together, The Wedding Ceremony Planner affirms what we all hope for: to communicate our love in a clear, heartfelt manner that truly reflects who we are.
About the Author
All my life, I have been exploring wisdom teachings from around the world with a particular fascination for the dynamics of consciousness. Now, as an author, mentor and speaker, my work is built upon the belief that beauty, creative expression, wisdom, and loving kindness are more the result of learning how to weather the disturbances of our lives than from avoiding them. As a mentor, I created The Thriving Studio™ for women to pay loving attention to how they get in their own way and to find the answers they need to change how they see both themselves and the world. By doing so, they can consciously practice and evolve until living their Truth becomes their ART.
In my work with couples, whether designing and officiating at their wedding ceremony or working with them in my Couple's Mentorship Program, I seek to inspire them with the message that love is indeed the first and most sacred priority of their marriage.
As a writer, exploring consciousness, weddings and marriage, or dying and death - my goal is to provide a comprehensive understanding of the issues at hand and a desire to do our best in meeting the challenges, trials and triumphs of our lives.
It took me a while to figure it out, but I simply have to write. It is not only a passion and an essential form of expression for me, but a process of claiming my truth.
When I write, time disappears. I become immersed in the creative process of birthing my understanding and expression. My brother is a sculptor and I often notice how similar our creative processes are. We are driven by the need to bring forward a level of expression that feels complete and satisfactory to us. It is a birthing process.
Every article, poem, book, and both of my doctoral dissertations have taken me through this same journey. The essence of each project presents itself within my consciousness and then unfolds and evolves until I am sufficiently satisfied to let it go. I have learned to make peace with this part of my journey. After all, what is the alternative?
I have many back burners filled with projects in process. Some have been cooking for over twenty years. I have learned to honor this process. While I have been given good intuitive skills and facility as a writer, I am humbled by the reality that I have to wait for inspiration to present itself and then run to my computer or journal before the thoughts vacate my brain.
Writing comes very easily to me. I have the sense of getting out of the way and allowing words to flow through me. I don't have any great orderly process of creating outlines or laying out the structure of what I am to write. I simply sit down and write and edit and organize as I go along. Completing a piece of work, whether poem or book, is cathartic and exhilarating for me. Writing is not negotiable - it is something I simply must do.
Here's what I am really passionate about:
