I seem to remember that Nicola and Sean didn’t want their wedding to be too serious, “we should have a bit of a laugh” they said and we certainly did have an emotional day. The thing that stays in my memory of the day were the readings that their family and friends gave. We started the ceremony with Sean’s sister Emma reading one of the most difficult poems – ee cummings, “I Carry Your Heart With Me”
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| I think this was during the story of how they got together |
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
and she absolutely nailed it, not a dry eye in the audience. Later in the ceremony, after we had a bit of a laugh about Sean’s romantic proposal, “Do you want to look at some rings?”, their friend Jamie read an Apache Blessing before the serious and formal marriage ceremony itself. We signed the schedule and the bride and groom exited to the strains of, what else, but the Cantina Band theme from Star Wars played by the Apollo Strings. Well, what else do you end a marriage ceremony with?
Humanist Brian 