Your wedding day is one of the most important days of your lives. Your wedding ceremony is the keystone event of your wedding day. It sets the tone for your entire celebration. Our goal is to create for you a wedding ceremony that is a reflection of your love and your relationship.

Monday, December 17, 2007

Blending Traditions

Many of the couples that we work with come from different religious and ethnic traditions and we love to blend their backgrounds into their weddings. I can best illustrate this by describing the wedding of Rosa and Jonathan.

Rosa's mother is Mexican and Catholic. Rosa's father is Hawaiian and had a Protestant Christian upbringing. Jonathan comes from a Jewish family.

After discussion and some research we decided to honor and include the traditions of the families in three places. After the couple made their vows, we used the Mexican Catholic tradition of the Lazo (a braided rope) to encircle them and to symbolize their new unity together. After the rings were exchanged, we included the Jewish custom of breaking the glass by the groom. Finally, we asked Rosa's father to honor the couple with a traditional Hawaiian blessing as the wedding was completed.

Their wedding ceremony was a great success. The parents and grandparents were especially delighted and grateful that their children wanted to include these marvelous traditions. By mixing religious and ethnic symbols we were able to give real depth of feeling and honor to this wedding ceremony.