Crafting Meaningful Wedding Rituals

Author : Jeltje Gordon-Lennox
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-18
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781784507435

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Crafting Meaningful Wedding Rituals by Jeltje Gordon-Lennox Pdf

The trend towards a more secular culture in Western society means that there can be greater flexibility in a wedding ceremony, but couples are often faced with the challenge of preparing a meaningful celebration outside the traditional religious framework. This hands-on, practical guide demonstrates how to approach and prepare a secular wedding ceremony that honours a couple's relationship with honest vows and rituals true to their shared values. In addition, it provides guidance on structuring a ceremony for couples that come from very different cultural or spiritual backgrounds. Includes the tools necessary for the creation of a ceremony, such as a Ritual Identity Questionnaire, checklists, and many other resources.

Author : Jeltje Gordon-Lennox
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-21
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781784507466

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Crafting Meaningful Funeral Rituals by Jeltje Gordon-Lennox Pdf

Funerals are among the most important life events in Western society, and fashioning a personalized ceremony for yourself or for a loved one is often the most meaningful way to celebrate the life of the deceased. For those wanting non-religious or secular funeral ceremonies, this step-by-step guide begins by identifying what you want from the funeral and showing how you can make it happen. With sections on society's views of mortality, our need for rituals and crafting the actual ceremony, this guide provides the tools and philosophy to understand, plan and tailor a funeral for individuals. Includes all the tools necessary for the creation of a ceremony, such as a Ritual Profiles, checklists, and many other handy resources.

Author : Sara Cotner
Publisher : Voyageur Press (MN)
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-28
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780760341421

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A Priceless Wedding by Sara Cotner Pdf

A Priceless Wedding is an essential resource for engaged couples who want to plan a meaningful, memorable—and economical—wedding.

Author : Raven Kaldera,Tannin Schwartzstein
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0738704709

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Handfasting and Wedding Rituals by Raven Kaldera,Tannin Schwartzstein Pdf

An overview of wedding rituals for neopagans features ceremonies inspired by a wide range of influences, mythological love stories, and belief systems, including interfaith ceremonies allowing for just about any combination of religions, and tips on finding officiates, suggested readings, and more.

Author : Jeltje Gordon-Lennox
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781784503505

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Crafting Secular Ritual by Jeltje Gordon-Lennox Pdf

Answering the call for new rituals in our secular age, this book recognises the essential importance of rituals to the psychological, physical and spiritual health of individuals, families, organisations, and society as a whole. The book examines and explains the history, function and place of emerging rituals in different cultures, as well as providing practical guidance for creating your own secular rituals. The author includes examples, risk factors and checklists for the stages of planning new rituals for life events such as birth, marriage, and death, as well as for public occasions such as graduation and protest marches.

Author : Rev. Hannah Desmond
Publisher : BalboaPress
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-20
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781452539928

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The Wedding Journey by Rev. Hannah Desmond Pdf

The Wedding Journey is a unique guidebook that couples contemplating marriage will value. Rev. Hannah Desmond incorporates both ancient teachings and leading-edge thought in the crafting of wedding ceremonies for twenty-first century couples. She offers sage advice and assistance for creating your wedding ceremony, personal vows, and a fulfilling marriage. Hannah has created authentic, contemporary wedding scripts, which can serve as complete wedding services or as templates in the creation of your own ceremony. The ancient Celtic wedding practice of Handfasting is included, with a full explanation of tying the knot. You receive guidance as you begin the process of creating your ceremony, accessing your deepest emotions, and verbalizing your true feelings through your wedding vows. Beneficial practices and exercises are included to help alleviate the stress that may arise as you plan your wedding and prepare for your transition into married life. Hannah introduces effective techniques for harnessing the power of your thoughts, words, and emotions to alleviate distressful misunderstandings and allow for greater communication and a deeper bond in your marriage. With humor and compassion, Hannah helps you avoid some of the wedding pitfalls she has witnessed in her twenty years as a wedding celebrant. There are anecdotes to make you laugh and advice on a myriad of unique wedding elements from using your astrological flower in your bouquet to incorporating a unity ritual in your ceremony. The information and assistance offered throughout The Wedding Journey provides couples with fresh ideas and the emotional support and understanding necessary to create a deeply meaningful wedding ceremony, powerful and enduring vows, an awakened heart, and the flow of great love, prosperity, serenity, and joy into their marriage.

Author : Ann Keeler Evans
Publisher : Emerald Earth Pub
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0966371534

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Promises to Keep by Ann Keeler Evans Pdf

Author : Laura Roeper
Publisher : Richards Education
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Ultimate Wedding Planner: Your Step-by-Step Guide to the Perfect Celebration by Laura Roeper Pdf

Planning your dream wedding doesn't have to be overwhelming. 'The Ultimate Wedding Planner: Your Step-by-Step Guide to the Perfect Celebration' is your comprehensive guide to orchestrating a flawless and memorable wedding day. From setting a budget and choosing the perfect venue to selecting the right attire and coordinating with vendors, this book covers every detail to ensure your special day runs smoothly. With expert advice, practical tips, and detailed checklists, 'The Ultimate Wedding Planner' helps you navigate the complexities of wedding planning with ease and confidence. Whether you're envisioning an intimate gathering or a grand celebration, this guide is your essential companion for making your wedding dreams come true.

Author : Judith Johnson,Judith Johnson Ph D
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1983462829

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How to Write Meaningful Wedding Vows by Judith Johnson,Judith Johnson Ph D Pdf

Are you afraid or reluctant to write your own wedding vow? This book will prove to you that you can write and deliver a vow your partner will treasure always. This step-by-step guide makes it easy for you. This book explains to you all the different kinds of wedding vows and what to consider about each. It also provides worksheets to gather your ideas for writing your own vow and the keys to delivering your vow with grace and ease. As a wedding officiant for over 26 years, I know that many couples avoid writing their own vows out of fear that they won't be good enough, their partner's vow will be better, or they'll be too nervous or emotional. Well, I've never met a couple I couldn't help to write vows that are true to themselves and deeply communicate their love to their partner. In this book you will find the keys to success in discovering just the right words and delivering them calmly from your heart to your partner's heart. Taking the time to write your own meaningful wedding vow is a beautiful gift to your partner. Living according to your vow is a gift that keeps on giving and building a healthy and happy marriage.

Author : Meg Keene
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-17
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780738246734

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A Practical Wedding by Meg Keene Pdf

A companion to the popular website APracticalWedding.com and A Practical Wedding Planner, A Practical Wedding helps you sort through the basics to create the wedding you want -- without going broke or crazy in the process. After all, what really matters on your wedding day is not so much how it looked as how it felt. In this refreshing guide, expert Meg Keene shares her secrets to planning a beautiful celebration that reflects your taste and your relationship. You'll discover: The real purpose of engagement (hint: it's not just about the planning) How to pinpoint what matters most to you and your partner DIY-ing your wedding: brilliant or crazy? How to communicate decisions to your family Why that color-coded spreadsheet is actually worth it Wedding Zen can be yours. Meg walks you through everything from choosing a venue to writing vows, complete with stories and advice from women who have been in the trenches: the Team Practical brides. So here's to the joyful wedding, the sensible wedding, the unbelievably fun wedding! A Practical Wedding is your complete guide to getting married with grace.

Author : Kerry Rea
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593201855

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The Wedding Ringer by Kerry Rea Pdf

A woman who wants nothing to do with love or friendship finds both in the unlikeliest ways in this hilarious and heartwarming debut by Kerry Rea. Once upon a time, Willa Callister was a successful blogger with a good credit score, actual hobbies, and legs that she shaved more than once a month. But after finding her fiancé in bed with her best friend, she now spends her days performing at children's birthday parties in a ball gown that makes her look like a walking bottle of Pepto Bismol. Willa dreams of starting fresh, where no one knows who she used to be, but first she needs to save up enough money to make it happen. Maisie Mitchell needs something too: another bridesmaid for her wedding. After a chance encounter at a coffee shop, Maisie offers to pay Willa to be in her bridal party. Willa wants nothing to do with weddings—or Maisie—but the money will give her the freedom to start the new life she so badly desires. Willa's bridesmaid duties thrust her into Maisie's high-energy world and into the path of hotshot doctor Liam Rafferty. But as Willa and Maisie form a real friendship, and Liam's annoyingly irresistible smile makes her reconsider her mantra that all men are trash, Willa's exit strategy becomes way more complicated. And when a secret from Maisie's past threatens to derail the wedding, Willa must consider whether friendship—and romance—are worth sticking around for.

Author : Sara Cotner
Publisher : Quarto Publishing Group USA
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-28
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781610586702

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A Priceless Wedding by Sara Cotner Pdf

Plan a wedding that reflects your commitment—to each other and to the things you truly value. How you and your partner plan your wedding can set a precedent for how you will be as a family. How do you work together to merge two different sets of ideas into something bigger and better? How do you disagree in constructive rather than destructive ways? How do you honor the input and experience of family members while simultaneously maintaining ownership of your lives and choices? In this part-memoir, part how-to handbook, popular wedding blogger Sara Cotner shares how you can resist the pressure to create the wedding of someone else's dreams and instead reclaim the real purposes of a wedding: community, connection, commitment, and fun. A Priceless Wedding covers all the basics: securing a location, finding a dress, deciding on flowers, selecting a wedding party, planning the ceremony, choosing rings, and everything in between—but it goes beyond the elements of a "traditional" wedding to help you plan an eco-friendly, hand-crafted, budget-minded celebration that will be both memorable and meaningful. Featuring do-it-yourself projects that help you create your own unique wedding favors, sew a homemade wedding quilt, and more, this book will inspire you to begin your own traditions and rituals that will clarify your values and let you live them out loud.

Author : Molly Rosen Guy
Publisher : Random House
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-05
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780812998108

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Stone Fox Bride by Molly Rosen Guy Pdf

Ditch the storybook wedding, banish Bridezilla, and walk down the aisle in truth and in style: You are a Stone Fox Bride and this is your bridal guide. Molly Rosen Guy founded the brand Stone Fox Bride as an alternative to outdated, plastic-princess wedding culture. Her stylish and subversive approach is being embraced by creative, modern brides who believe in love and romance, but have no interest in running off into the sunset. In an inspiring mix of intimate storytelling, gorgeous visuals, and candid advice, with an aesthetic that channels Bianca Jagger in a white tux rather than Cinderella in a frilly gown, Molly Rosen Guy—your cool, hippie chic guide through the wilds of wedding planning—encourages brides-to-be, and their ladies in tow, to say no to all things phony, frilly, and silly. Featuring personal essays that explore the nuances of the process, including a raw, unairbrushed look at the realities of the early days of marriage, she tells us that a Stone Fox Bride should never sacrifice her style, her story, or her sanity to please others; she reassures us that weddings don't have to be free of confusion, shades of gray, or cellulite; and reminds us that marriage, like love, is equal parts complicated and beautiful. Praise for Molly Rosen Guy and the Stone Fox Bride phenomenon “The current wedding-wear darling of the jammin’ and Instagrammin’ set [offers] an insouciant, antiestablishment approach to weddings.”—The New York Times “[Molly Rosen Guy is] making waves in the bridal industry thanks to her eclectic eye and refusal to conform to clichéd traditions.”—W “Molly Rosen Guy built a business filling the needs of women who long for something more than your run-of-the-mill, princess-y flou for their big day.”—Vogue

Author : Anita Diamant
Publisher : Scribner
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0671628828

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The New Jewish Wedding by Anita Diamant Pdf

Complete, authoritative, and indispensable, The New Jewish Wedding provides the couple with options--some new, some old--to create a wedding combining spiritual meaning and joyous celebration. Step-by-step, Diamant guides readers through planning the cermony and the party that follows--from finding a rabbi and wording the invitations to hiring a caterer.

Author : Michael P. Foley
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-21
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780802848673

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Wedding Rites by Michael P. Foley Pdf

Many engaged couples, no matter what their personal style, find themselves turning back to tradition for their wedding ceremony. Is there a way to follow tradition and still carve your own wedding path? Yes, there is - with this unique book in hand. Michael Foley presents meaningful wedding traditions so old that they're practically new again. Roman Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, and Jewish wedding traditions fill this comprehensive guidebook, the only one of its kind. From music and flowers to vows and ceremonies to blessings, Foley's Wedding Rites contains a vast assortment of rich traditions very usable in weddings today. Best of all, it's easy to reference and easy to use! Wedding Rites includes concrete suggestions for each facet of your wedding, from engagement to reception; guidelines for designing your own distinctive wedding program; practical advice for interfaith weddings; forgotten wedding customs - carecloths, loving cups, coin blessings, and others.