More than 50% of my couples initially tell me that they intend on writing personal vows. Of that 50% I’d say 49% eventually reach out to me in something of a panic – “How do I write my vows? What should I say? How long should they be?” Well, here is what I tell my couples. . . Begin with a memory, an image, an anecdote, that brief story you cherish because it captures so much of the two of you …
What Helping High School Seniors with Their College Application Essays Taught Me About Wedding Vows!
A human life is not a life until it is examined; it is not a life until it is truly remembered and appropriated; and such a remembrance is not something passive but active. . . the creative construction of one’s life. Oliver Sacks Occasionally, I like to offer a post that isn’t directly related to weddings BUT is kinda, sorta wedding themed and THIS is one of those “odd” postings! This past week I was an instructor at a three-day …
What 1 Word Describes YOUR Partner?
photo: anne edgar “Mr. Fleiss said that he has a French aunt who settled upon a word that best describes JoJo (his wife): ‘chaleur.’ ‘It means having the quality of warmth,’ he said. ‘Imagine a snowy evening in the mountains, you see a log cabin with a fire roaring — a feeling of home, of warmth and heart. For me, that’s what JoJo is.’” Yet another quote I picked-up from somewhere and have no record of where. But I love …