Beach Wedding
The Waves Of Love
From PA To CA To WED!
Beach Vows
With This Ring
Real Beach Wedding In San Francisco
Love Nest
Real Beach Wedding In San Francisco
Renewing Marriage Vows On Wedding Anniversary
25 Years Of Marriage
Renewing Marriage Vows On Wedding Anniversary
Ric & Julie Renewed Their Marriage Vows
They brought their family and friends to San Francisco and renewed their vows of marriage on the beach with the Golden Gate Bridge as their backdrop.When the groom was asked to share his words, he selected the lyrics from Journey’s ‘After All These Years’. The words rang true to his feelings from the heart as tears streamed down his face.
“After All These Years”
A faded wedding photograph
You and me in our first dance
The lives of those
We lost in once sweet embrace
Since those days our world has changed
Our love remains the same
God knows we’ve had our share of saving graceAnd I’m proud of all the blessings
You have given me
The mountains we have climbed to get this far
You learn to take the laughter with the tears
After all these years
You and me in our first dance
The lives of those
We lost in once sweet embrace
Since those days our world has changed
Our love remains the same
God knows we’ve had our share of saving graceAnd I’m proud of all the blessings
You have given me
The mountains we have climbed to get this far
You learn to take the laughter with the tears
After all these years
You make it feel brand new
After the fires that we walked thru
Against the odds we never lost our faithIn our hearts we’ve made our home
Where our children all have grown
Precious moments time can not eraseWe’ve been livin’ up and down the gypsy highway
Seasons that we’ve learned to share apart
Somehow in my heart I always keep you near me
After all these yearsAfter all these years
You stood by me
The days and nights that I was gone
After all these years
You sacrificed, believed in me
And you stood strong
‘Cause with our love there’s nothing left to fear
After all these yearsAfter all these years
You stood by me
The days and nights that I was gone
After all these years
You sacrificed, believed in me
And you stood strong
‘Cause with our love there’s nothing left to fear
After all these years
After the fires that we walked thru
Against the odds we never lost our faithIn our hearts we’ve made our home
Where our children all have grown
Precious moments time can not eraseWe’ve been livin’ up and down the gypsy highway
Seasons that we’ve learned to share apart
Somehow in my heart I always keep you near me
After all these yearsAfter all these years
You stood by me
The days and nights that I was gone
After all these years
You sacrificed, believed in me
And you stood strong
‘Cause with our love there’s nothing left to fear
After all these yearsAfter all these years
You stood by me
The days and nights that I was gone
After all these years
You sacrificed, believed in me
And you stood strong
‘Cause with our love there’s nothing left to fear
After all these years
To stand with Ric & Julie in the solid foundation of their twenty five years together, while they celebrated their twenty fifth anniversary with a vow of marriage renewal was an honor and delight. Thank you for inviting me to be a part of your silver wedding anniversary, it was a delight to the heart.
From England To California To Wed
Italy – England – USA (CA)
From England To California To Wed
Andrea & Federica’s San Francisco Wedding
An Italian couple arrived from London to wed in San Francisco, Andrea & Federica were the perfect couple as they exchanged their wedding vows in the hillside chapel overlooking the San Francisco Bay.
Rev. Ema Drouillard officiated the wedding ceremony in English as it was beautifully echoed in Italian, which not only made it so all the guests understood the wedding ceremony but provided the environment for hearts to be touched. The bride entered to a guitarist singing and the couple left the chapel with more music and singing. It truly was a heart touching beautiful wedding.
The bride was absolutely beautiful with a gown that looked like it was made for her and a veil that was dynamite as well as feminine. The groom was quiet, touched and heart-felt. It was the perfect day for the perfect wedding for the perfect couple.
Rev. Ema Drouillard
Gentile Andrea & Federica, E ‘stato un onore far parte del nostro giorno di nozze . Grazie per toccare il mio cuore con la vostra gioia. Con Amore, Ema
Chapel Wedding
Joy Filled Vows
Wedded Kisses!
Photography Wedding Love Poses
Beautiful Small Wedding Locations
Wedding Vistas
Beautiful Small Wedding Location Ideas
Idea’s for renting a private water view home for your small wedding. Small weddings are usually under forty people and under ten cars.
Each home is unique and each one has different requirements for a visit. A security deposit, cleaning fee, and often a number of nights as a minimum stay is required.
Any venue you select for your wedding ceremony would need ample parking for your guests and an okay from your host.
Here are some listings that offer a private setting for your wedding ceremony with beautiful water vista’s.
A spectacular oceanfront home with panoramic views will provide the perfect backdrop for your wedding photography. You can have some of your family or guests stay with you. Having a small event catered is easy with a full kitchen available. Your wedding officiate will assist you with a memorable wedding ceremony. Everything you need for a memory to treasure for a lifetime.
Family Relationships On Your Wedding Day
Be Surrounded In Support
Family Relationships On Your Wedding Day
Weddings, marriage and relationships all take place within the well established families of our loved ones. What can we do when family members are being non-supportive of your decision to marry?
When a family member holds a mind-set that is non-supportive, you can experience a bumpy ride on the way to the altar that may continue into your married life. The heartache of your loved ones being non-supportive can have a huge impact on your relationship together.
It’s clear that you can’t make people be supportive, once they set a frame of mind it can be hard to find a way out of the defenses that build around a mind-set to defend its view.
The issue at this point is to find a way that you can be supportive to your relationship decisions. Is there something you have overlooked? A way to clarify something that has been misunderstood?
- Are family members being non-supportive because they didn’t feel include in your life decision?
- Does someone disagree with your choice of partner?
- Are they disappointed you didn’t include them in your runaway wedding?
- Is someone feeling left out and not included in your new life?
Sometimes a little clarity can break down the walls of defense. As soon as you are aware of the issue, have a one on one with your family member that is being non-supportive. With a view of hearing them rather than defending yourself or your decision. Find out what is at the bottom of their resistance. You want to do this as soon as you feel resistance, before one person resistance flavors the whole family.
Once you have the information you need, perhaps a new mind-set can be formed. Perhaps not. Either way the best first step is to gain understanding and listen. Sometimes loved ones just need to feel heard and then they can let it go. If not, if they can not find a way to be supportive, should you include them in your wedding day?
Most of the love in our lives come from our family, you surely don’t want to exclude them from the happiness you have in your life. At the same time you don’t want them to create a shadow on your joy. Not being invited can have a lasting effect that can be hard if not impossible to overcome.
Family dynamics can be intricate and involved. You know your family better than anyone outside of your family. Ultimately it is your decision. How can you make a decision that in the long run will be the most supportive of all?
Here’s one view. Be inclusive, be supportive, be caring, be loving. Because after all, that is what you really want. In this frame those that aren’t being supportive may be able to move to a new position as they feel included and part of the love.
As a newly wedded couple you need the support of your family. If you are a young couple, say in your twenties – the statistically odds of your marriage being a success are against you. You need the most support. If your marriage is beginning with a child, you will need more support than you can get.
It is impossible to see into the future but if you want to have a family life that is loving, be loving. That’s the place that holds the most hope.
5 Tips To Be Photo Ready On Your Wedding Day
Camera Ready
Photo Ready On Your Wedding Day
When nerves run high, how do you look relaxed on your wedding day and capture the joy?
Allow More Time Than You Think You Need
Your wedding day is such a special day. It can also be a day loaded with unexpected delays. Hair dresser’s can run late, drivers can get lost, you can have to redo something you didn’t see coming.However long you think it will take you to get ready, add extra time.
If you were planning on beginning your day at 8 am, begin at 7 am. Planning for extra time will give you a way to relax during the unexpected.
Don’t Skip Food, Eat Something
When you exchange your wedding vows, it can be experienced as an altered state. To really enjoyed and remember your wedding ceremony make sure to have a good meal.
When your blood sugar drops so does your joy, which will show up in your photography.
You wedding photography will be a part of your family’s connection with you throughout generations. Eat a good breakfast.
Low blood sugar is not your friend. Especially if you’re planning on drinking after your ceremony. Have some lunch.
Communicate Your Ideas
If you have an idea for a wedding photography pose, let your photographer know, bring a pose example with you.
Decide in advance the group images you would like and how much time the photographer should focus just on the two of you.
Wear Something You’re Happy To Be Photographed In
Your attire can be casual, formal or unusual. Just make sure that whatever you’re wearing is something you’re comfortable to have your picture taken in.
Enjoy Creating Your Treasured Moments
Make your decisions before the day of your wedding, this way you can relax on your wedding day. No one wants a surprise on their wedding day. Once you have made your plans and tended to the details, let go and relax with how it unfolds. Let it have it’s way with you.
Relish this very special time together as you become husband and wife. You are creating some of your most powerful memories together.
Why Millennials Are Waiting To Marry
Millennials And Marriage
Why Millennials Are Waiting To Marry
Revealing Statistics On Marriage Today
Today the average age for a man to marry is 37 while the average age for a woman is 34.
Back in the day when couples would marry right out of high school and some how manage to stay married and raise a family together appears to be a thing of the past.
The statistics reveal the younger you marry the more likely it will not last. Marrying between the ages of 20 and 24, the odds are most likely the marriage will end in divorce.
With 40 percent to 50 percent of first marriages failing, the second time around has a 60 percent fail rate. It would appear that relationships come with an expiration date.
The current research on the Millennials states that 25 percent will never marry. With 22 percent already married 53 percent will marry.
When Millennials are asked what they are waiting for?
- 30% waiting for the right person
- 27% waiting for financial stability
- 22% are waiting to settle down
Most Millennials see long-term marriage as a context for rearing children. Many of them not having a legal ceremony until well after the baby arrives.
While Millennials are waiting to have a legally binding ceremony, many are opting for a non-legal unity ceremony to show their commitment and devotion.
Every generation has it’s way to break away from the traditions of the past and the Millennials are doing it in their way and in their time. It is after all their time.
How To Write Wedding Ceremony Vows
Writing Your Vows
How To Write Wedding Ceremony Vows
Personal Wedding Vows
Before the wedding ceremony I always have a conversation with the bride and groom. During our conversation, I always ask them if they will be sharing personal wedding vows, with the emphasis that it’s not required and there is no pressure to do so.
After years of working with couples on the threshold of marriage, I understand that over seventy percent of people have a fear of speaking in public. The wedding ceremony is a very intimate time filled with unexpected feelings and emotions. The majority of time either the bride or the groom would rather not speak private words in public.
For some people writing personal wedding vows is fun and easy. A meaningful way to enhance their wedding ceremony. For others it adds to the stress of the day and can be overly taxing. There are no rules about personal wedding vows. If only one of you wants to speak your words, that is okay too! Whatever works for the two of you.
What is the personal vow you are making?
Writing personal wedding vows requires focusing on the future of your relationship as husband and wife. The focus is your lifetime together. When things get rough and during the ups and downs of your life together, how do you vow to be in relationship to the other.
As you enter an unknown future together these crafted words can become your anchor in the way you show up for your partner.
As you explore idea’s for your personal wedding vows something will spark your heart and then you just need to refine it to your likely. Speak your personal wedding vows out loud to feel the flow. Try them on. Work on them until they feel just right.
On your wedding day have your words on a piece of paper, it’s a little more personal than an iPhone. If you focus on memorizing them, you may find your mind has gone completely blank. It is after all an altered state at the altar. While you are focusing on remembering your words you will also miss the rest of your wedding ceremony.
Much success with putting your feeling to words.
Example Personal Wedding Vows, To Inspire You
Example Of Personal Wedding Vows From Grace & Frankie 2015 Episode
I vow to always laugh with you and
to never go to bed angry.
to comfort you in times of sorrow,
to always listen to what you have to say,
even when we don’t see eye to eye, and
to remember love is saying ‘I feel differently’
instead of ‘you’re wrong’.
I promise to love you,
happy or sad, easy or difficult,
through the sunshine and through the rain
for the rest of our days.
Short & Sweet
All that I am and all that I have,
I offer to you, my love,
my friend in joy, in service, in sacred union.
A Little More
I love you for who you are and
who I am with you.
From this day forth,
I freely and joyfully join my life with yours.
Wherever you go, I will go.
Whatever you face, I will face.
I will care for you should you become ill.
I will comfort you should you feel sad.
I will bathe in your joy.
I am yours completely and forever.
I take you as my partner for life, and
I will give myself to no other.
Communicating your words is the number one most powerful thing you can do in relationship. In a loving relationship always frame your words in love and you will stay in love. 🙂
European Couple Elope To San Francisco
Ema with The Bride & Groom
European Couple Elope To San Francisco
Romantic San Francisco Beach Wedding
Putting it all together involves working with other vendors. It’s always a joy for me to work with a wedding planner that has tended to all the details and I’m invited me to conduct the wedding ceremony.
Something Blue Wedding Planning recently joined with My SF Wedding to arrange an elopement wedding ceremony at Sutro Baths in San Francisco for a couple arriving from Europe.
Inspired by the couple’s unique story Jennifer of Something Blue designed their dream wedding on a small strip of beach next to The Cliff House.
It was a delight to be a part of their romantic wedding day on the edge of the sea. A joy to a part of their coming together.
It’s a passion for us to create beautiful weddings and making life-long friends while we doing so.
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