Promises to Keep : Crafting Your Wedding Ceremony

Patricia Monaghan, Author of Meditation: The Complete Guide
"This book shows how to create a commitment ceremony reflecting the values of a new age."

Dianne Breivis, Wedding Consultant
"If you want a meaningful, personalized wedding, this book will help you create that."

Book Description
The reason for the whole day is the CEREMONY! So how do you write a GREAT CEREMONY? This unique guide gives you a format for any type of ceremony. It has worksheets to help you think through your words, then it helps you write your vows and promises to say what you really mean. It suggests where to include heart-felt rituals, when to use music or dance. It shows how to enlist your community's support of your marriage, and has a worksheet for your parents. It helps you anticipate problems and shows you how to defuse them. It suggests ways to include your children. INCLUDES CEREMONIES FOR Traditional and Non-Traditional Weddings, Second Marriages, Handfastings, Committment Ceremonies for Lesbians and Gays, and Renewals of Vows.

About the Author
Ann Keeler Evans, M.Div, has been personalizing wedding ceremonies since 1987. A graduate of Union Theological Seminary in new York, she is an ordained minister and a thealogian. She works in the San Francisco Bay Area, specializing in creating ecumenical/interfaith weddings and commitment ceremonies for couples who want their weddings to reflect who they are and the couple they plan to be.


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Promises To Keep: Crafting Your Wedding Ceremony is an indispensable, thoroughly "user friendly" guide to creating a truly memorable wedding ceremony and event. Beginning with sorting out why you want to marry, Promises To Keep goes on to advice on writing personal vows that say what you mean; how to enlist community support for the marriage; and the use of heart-felt rituals to reveal and document commitment. Rather than just another survey focusing on flowers, dresses, and reception menus, Promises To Keep is dedicated to the reason for the ceremony itself! If you are planning and preparing for your own wedding day — or that of a loved one — then begin with a careful reading of Ann Keller Evans' Promises To Keep!


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