Let’s pick up where we left off in my last post. After our vows we had a second reading.
Reading 2: Excerpt From 100 Love Sonnets by Pablo Neruda
My favorite line from this reading would most likely be:
Where “I” does not exist, nor “You”, so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.
Exchange of Rings:
Hunter: The wedding ring is a famous and instantly recognizable symbol of the joining of two people in marriage. The tradition has a long, wide spread and mysterious history. Sedges, rushers, and reeds from the banks of the Nile were twisted and braided into rings.
The circle is the symbol of eternity. It has no beginning and no end, like time. And it returns to itself like life. The hole in the center of the ring is not just space, it is a symbol of a gateway, or a door; leading to things and events both known and unknown.
It is not difficult therefore, to see how the gift of the ring began to be associated with love. A hope that this most worth of emotions could take on the characteristics of the circle and capture eternity. In the past and today, the wedding ring is worn on the third finger of the left hand, because of a belief that the vein of that finger directly traveled from the heart.
And so Diane please take Jen’s ring, the symbol of love, life and eternity and repeat after me.
I make you holy to me with thing ring. May it be a sign of my love for the world to behold. I enter with you, my beloved, into this.
And Jen, take Diane’s ring and repeat after me.
I make you holy to me with thing ring. May it be a sign of my love for the world to behold. I enter with you, my beloved, into this.
Breaking of the Glass:
I don’t know if I told you this, but Jen is Jewish. While we were not going to have a strictly religious ceremony we did want to include aspects of both our religious backgrounds.
Hunter: The Jewish tradition of the breaking of th glass has a number of different interpretations and explanations. But the one that has the most meaning for Jen and Diane is the idea that with this act the glass is forever changed. And likewise, from this moment on, you are forever changed. May the marriage last as long as the glass remains in pieces.
And now, by the power vested in me by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts I now pronounce you joined in holy matrimony. Please seal this moment with a kiss.
I love this next picture, but I want to put a disclaimer: we are not running down the isle.
What happened was that we turned around to recess and everyone waved their yay flags. It looked so amazing! It was just this sea of yay flags. Jen stopped, for just a second, to look. That’s why so looks like she’s fallen behind. The skirt blowing effect came from the wind.
Next we go through the reception time line and all the fun that ensued.
Beautiful!
Too sweet. I’m so happy for these girls. They look amazing.