Sherrie Gingery Robinson's Blog (4)

It's been a blessedly busy summer of vow renewal ceremonies: milestone anniversaries and couples who are re-dedicating themselves to their relationship after difficult times.  What I find especially touching is that couples who renew their vows do so out of an enduring love based on the experience of their shared joys and hardships; a love that honors what has been while looking forward to what yet may be.



In addition to re-affirming their promises, I always suggest to my clients who… Continue

In addition to poems, music and readings, I encourage Brides and Grooms to choose ceremony verbiage that fits their personal tastes and their "relationship personality". I like to affirm for my clients, "Remember it's your day, your wedding, your ceremony, and you can make it whatever you want it to be."  



As part of the ceremony two of the best places a couple can express themselves and their unique couple style are 1) in the actual vows themselves and 2) at the ring or gift exchange,… Continue

That golden/platinum/silver/(insert metal here) band. For the Egyptians, the most likely originators of the wedding ring, the circle symbolized eternity, time with no beginning nor an end, and it was revered in the forms of Sun and Moon.

 

Legend has it that when Alexander the Great conquered Egypt the wedding band custom was passed on from the Egyptians to the Greeks, and then from the Greeks to the Romans. Various materials like hair and hemp and metals have been used…

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I am often asked by clients how it is that I am able to maintain my perenially “happy day” attitude. What, they want to know, is my secret? And when I really got to thinking about it I realized my happiness is very much a result of my adaptability to life’s challenges. Basically, contentment lies in my ability to turn those proverbial life lemons into lemonade.

In my various professional roles, whether as a minister or yoga teacher, I am witness to very intimate details of my clients’…

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