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Comment by Weddings On Wheels® on October 21, 2009 at 1:24pm

Are you planning on having your wedding somewhere other than a church? Would you like to have a ceremony officiant who does more than just show up and read the same boring wedding ceremony script you hear at every other wedding you've been to? Look no further!

Weddings On Wheels can provide you with a mobile officiant who will travel to the location you have chosen for your wedding ceremony - be it a catering hall, the beach, a park, your home or anywhere!. And your officiant will work closely with you prior to the wedding day to insure that your ceremony celebrates the special love you and your partner share.

We can custom write a wedding ceremony especially for you, or you may choose from a wide variety of prewritten ceremonies which we have available. All our services include information on how to apply for your marriage license, a keepsake marriage certificate, a bound booklet of your entire wedding ceremony script, mini-rehearsal/wedding coordination services on the day of, a Marriage Starter Kit, and filing of the marriage license after the ceremony.

You may also add on any of these options to your package for an additional fee - Bride's Name Change Kit, portable PA system and microphone, a meeting with your officiant in your home, a full rehearsal with officiant on a day prior to your wedding, a wedding planning workbook (for the planning impaired), and marriage preparation sessions, if desired.

Your wedding day, like your love for each other, is very special. Don't settle for an inferior, run of the mill officiant who mumbles a few words and then pronounces you husband and wife. Give yourself and your guests a wedding ceremony they will talk about for months to come! Visit our website at http://www.weddingsonwheels.org and complete our Request For Availability form to book your wedding officiant now!

We look forward to serving you.

Rev. Debbie Kalinowski
Weddings On Wheels
Phone: (609) 440-7501
Email: debbieemt@earthlink.net
URL: http://www.weddingsonwheels.org

Comment by Barbara Ann Michaels on October 19, 2009 at 1:37pm

Pamela, thank you for your thoughtful notes. Yes, in my experience, too, 'simple' usually means 'quite personal to us.' I agree with you that asking the deeper questions helps couples say the things we need to hear to develop a ceremony that is really true to their love. Love, like spirituality, is self-defined in the modern day. I find that each couple has their own model of what love is - from 'being one' to 'being best friends side by side' and many more. It sounds like you thrive on getting to heart of their uniqueness, as I do, and I'm sure as many of us do. We are experience artists and our mediums are emotions, time, words, music, history, and the imagination. I really appreciate your comments about how ceremonies serve more purposes than just marrying the couple, both for the couple and for the family. I respect your depth. Thanks again.

Comment by Soiree Key West on October 6, 2009 at 4:52am

Soiree Key West, Inc. is a full-service wedding company that specializes in helping couples and family members from all over the world enjoy their wedding day by taking care of all the coordinating details.

Celebrations are made to be enjoyed by you and your guests and Soiree Key West, Inc. will plan and orchestrate your next event: Weddings * Engagement Parties * Rehearsal Dinners * Bachelor and Bachelorette Parties* Bridal and Baby Showers * Birthdays * Quinces * Sweet 16 * Corporate Events............Leave the running around to us and the only plans you have to make are to enjoy your day!!

Whether you are looking to have an intimate wedding with your closest friends and family or an extravagant event you thought only Cinderella could have, Soiree Key West, Inc. will cater to your every need. We know how important this day is for you and it is our job and our goal to ensure every detail is exactly what you want and how you want it to happen. With our detailed and caring attention to quality, originality, we promise that your wedding celebration or event will be unique and memorable. Exclusively tailored to please you and your guests, there is no better place than Key West to make your dreams come true.

Our endless array of unique locations for your wedding in paradise offers the ultimate Key West experience you could ever imagine, nature lovers and romantics will enjoy a picturesque landscape of lush tropical beauty in our garden locations, the exhilarating sounds of a seaside wedding location is a setting of pure sheer elegance...one that will unquestionably bring you to rediscover the connection that first brought you together....our spectacular sunsets and twilight evenings will make a wedding in Key West very intimate and romantic, simple and private or a large formal affair - that's up to you, just choose your dreams and we will make them come true.

We service Key West, Lower, Middle and Upper Keys beaches and surrounding areas. Celebrate your wedding day with the sun kissing the horizon, a gentle breeze across the water, the waves flowing softly beside you and the sand between your toes!!! From catering to floral arrangements, themed rehearsal dinners to videotaping, invitations to make-up for the bridal party, Soiree Key West, Inc. offers an extensive range of amenities for the ceremony as well as pre and post wedding receptions.

Make your wedding or special event in Key West extra special by selecting from a wide range of wedding packages that Soiree Key West, Inc. has to offer. You'll have lifelong memories of the fresh smell of the salt air, the sound of the ocean, that sunset toast with sand between your toes, the refreshing tropical breeze... Together with nature's beauty, magnificent sunsets and beautiful breezes, your special event will surpass any and all other destinations in The Caribbean.

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Comment by Lifevents Pamela Rolley CMC on September 20, 2009 at 10:12am

One question I always ask a couple is 'Can you describe the reasons why have you decided to marry?" - As I ask this is my initial 'return to me questionaire' and i is in the section designed for each to answer independently and then together provide their responses -This leads to many places. I find that so many have never thought clearly or deeply about this question -particularly as in Australia the laws regarding property/children now apply equally to de facto as well as married - ie there are no legal reasons to marry vs not marry - it is pure choice and social construct. The questioning makes sure I have covered my legal obligations regarding the celebrant obligations for informing about relationship counselling, opens the door for discussion and really checks out duress, and encourages the couple to go deeper into the why? Their answers give me insight into their style, philosophies and belief systems. (Obviously one question leads to another) From responses it helps me be quickly on the right track for personalising and original design. Many times I am told 'we are not religious but spiritual' - and like 'simple' - spiritual means so many different things and nothing can be assumed. Based on this I 'take a risk' in ideas completely away from the templated, homogenised, traditionnal (read religion - of any persuasion-derived) in my suggestions - my attitude is a couple can always say that idea does not appeal. So far not once has any couple rejected an idea! Often a couple will request non religious but I know that what they have selected may not seem religion connected, but is. Often there is no need to gently point out, sometimes atfer explaining the significance they rethink and still want - that's fine - so long as they know that certain song lyrics for example are not about love and unity, but could be about the underworld and trafficking. For outdoor weddings (in particular) where a couple are wishing to embrace nature I will suggest a traditional acknowledgement of the land - it's short, it's respectful, it's Australian, and it is very easily blended into the ceremony introduction - every couple/family/group/community has said 'yes'. My point is celebrants who really want to deliver a 'unique, meaningful,personalised handcrafted original ceremony' need to be prepared to take what is a very small risk, and ask what may only seem to be hard questions and I think they will find that this is how a ritual which has the hairs on the back of the neck stand up can be created without becoming trite or contrived and is truly a rite of passage.

Comment by Sonia Collins on September 19, 2009 at 7:06pm

I agree with Pamela that many couples start the conversation with "we want something short and simple" However what they really want is something personalised and meaningful to them. I think the fear of high costs can also prompt a request for something short and simple but once we start talking about the possibilities for their ceremony they realise that personalising does not cost any more and is the way in which they can make it special for them. After that not many want "just the legals" Once we start to plan the ceremony the way they envision their wedding, the ceremony tends to move into its proper place - central to the whole day and the beginning of their married life together.

Kez are you on the Australian weddings site on facebook? Great to see more people there.

Comment by Kerryn Tippett on September 16, 2009 at 5:16pm

You can connect with me on facebook www.facebook.wedbykez.com

Comment by Lifevents Pamela Rolley CMC on August 27, 2009 at 12:21pm

I am finding that most couples are very eager to say "I want simple" to ensure they do not have what is commercially promoted. Reality is that other than a bare bones solemnisation (Just our legals), all have what I would regard as 'not simple'. What they are really saying is I do not want garish. This does not mean that they don't want different, creative,personalised. As I aim for the ceremony being the most important element of the day, (and the most memorable experience of the day) i.e. to reposition 'the ceremony' as the highlight or focus for everyone present, I am interested in how people feel and their opinions leading up to the day and then after. There is no doubt from this end, that most have a media image in their mind of what is a 'big' or 'over the top wedding' and absolutely do not want what is featured on TV Youtube or similiar. I think this is one of their biggest fears once they start the process. All want something unique, don't want to be the buttend of jokes, internet viral videos, or 'celebrity style'. They want something intensely private, yet with public acknowledgement. Many may not be able to express it, but they do not want to be exploited. They are becoming very savvy in realising how to use their creativity to achieve what many suppliers do for business. Within this part of the world many have skills, or friends have skills which are called upon. Most elements are within the capabilities of the couple and they are realsing this and they can often produce extremely high quality (commercial) results. A recent example is a bride loved a courture dress - it was marked $AU4000. So she searched out the manufacturer (in China) on the internet. Sent all measurements, emailed back and forth to make sure all was right, and she received within a few weeks
'the dress' - how much including postage? - $AU80. Another wanted a cake - selected the ideal dream wedding cake - priced asking how much by using the wedding words... then left for a bit and then called back asked for a cake to be made to spec. and then found an artistic decorator to turn it into a wedding cake. Wedding price $AU1000,. Cake to spec. and artistic - $AU250.00. and so the list goes on. Many understand the outsourcing and distribution methods,many are educated or have careers and know how to network, so the mystery of creating is no longer the preserve of suppliers. The costuming, props, feasting, staging, and production - the event managed- can be done but what is difficult is translating the emotion into the magic and actually creating magic. This is where an understanding of ceremony and ritual, or how and why it works is hard to 'copy'. The art of ceremony and the power of ceremony cannot be taken from scripts,internet pages. An understanding that often on the surface people are attending a ceremony for a reason, but it actually is also made up of ceremony processes that have impact on others for different reasons. A supplier is foccussed on what they are supplying for that particular occasion i.e a wedding for a couple, but a celebrant who is a ceremonialist knows that it is a marriage of a couple - but it may also be a healing for grief and loss, a thanksgiving, or transitions for all sorts of reasons for all those attending. The skill is being able to weave it altogether without losing the focus for the couple.

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Comment by The Name Change Kit For Brides on August 10, 2009 at 7:42pm

Hello Barbara, thank you for the kind welcome. It is our pleasure to be of help to you and your community. Don't hesitate to keep in touch, and certainly, we shall be visiting the community to read the contributions. Regards, Dr. Linda - The Name Change Kit For Brides.

Comment by Barbara Ann Michaels on August 10, 2009 at 7:35pm

Name Change Kit... good thinking! We welcome co-vendors in our group ~ and since we officiants are the ones who officially pronounce the bride's new name first, this one is quite sweet. Thanks for sharing your resource.

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