Friday, January 27, 2017

Renewal of Wedding Vows Book


Australian Celebrant Resources
Renewal of Wedding Vows is a popular way of celebrating a wedding anniversary. 

But whether you renew your wedding vows as part of other celebration, or just as a personal ceremony to remind you how lucky you are to have such a wonderful marriage partner, this book will help you to celebrate the event in a uniquely personal way. 

With over 200 renewal of vows ceremony samples it will provide you with plenty of inspiration.

Among other thing, it explains the meaning of wedding anniversaries from the first wedding anniversary to the 75th, and how you can celebrate them. 

Ceremony text for a Renewal of Wedding Vows Ceremony includes:

·              Introductions

·              Conclusions

·              Wedding Anniversary Vows as a question

·              Wedding Anniversary Vow as a promise

·              Wedding Anniversary Ring exchange

·              Renewal of Vows by Guests

·              Support for the husband and wife by guests

·              Husband's and Wife's commitment their children

·              Children's dedication to their parents

·              Blessing on married couples present at the Renewal of Vows Ceremony

·              Wedding Anniversary Readings

·              Readings on a variety of subjects suitable for a renewal of wedding vows ceremony

·              Blessings 

Symbolic rituals which include text include:

·              Candle Lighting Ceremony

·              Blending of Sands Ceremony

·              Rose Ceremony

·              Sharing Wine Ceremony

·              Handfasting Ceremony

·              Planting a Tree

·              Seven Blessings

·              Blessing of the Hands 

All sections are divided into accessible subject matter to make the compilation of your renewal of wedding vows ceremony easier than you can imagine. 

Renewal ofWedding Vows is available as a PDF and Word Document. When you order the book both the PDF and Word Document will be emailed to you so you can use which ever version you prefer. 

You download them to your own computer, print and bind them yourself or have Office Works do it for you.  

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Twenty Complete Wedding Ceremonies Book

Australian Celebrant Resources
Planning a wedding ceremony? Here are complete wedding ceremony samples. 

Included are bride and groom's special situations

  • marrying for the first time
  • a second marriage
  • marriage with children
  • marriage involving parents of the couple
Aspects of the wedding ceremony includes

  • meaningful wedding rituals
  • wedding vows personalised or with a wedding theme
  • exchanging of wedding rings
  • wedding readings including love poems, and readings with a theme
  • wedding ceremony introductions
  • wedding ceremony conclusions
Also among these twenty ceremonies, there are many ceremonies involving visual symbols such as:-

  • handfasting
  • rose ceremony
  • candle lighting
  • sharing a drink
Each ceremony is different and is summarised at the end in step form as follows 

Ceremony No.20

  1. Introduction
  2. Parental Support
  3. Reading by Family Member
  4. Vows of Intention posed by Bride and Groom’s siblings
  5. Exchanging Wedding Vows
  6. Exchanging wedding rings – prelude by Celebrant
  7. Declaration of couples as Husband & Wife
  8. Exchanging a Kiss
  9. Signing of the Marriage Register
  10. Blessing
  11. Reading by all family members
  12. Introduction of Couple as Husband & Wife 

20 Complete WeddingCeremonies is available as a PDF and Word Document version. When you order the book both the PDF and Word document will be emailed to you so you can use which ever version you prefer. 

You download them to your own computer, print and bind them yourself or have Office Works do it for you.  



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Sunday, January 15, 2017

Let Them Eat (Wedding) Cake


When it comes to wedding cakes, like everything else, they have evolved. Initially two types of cake were introduced into the modern wedding. One, considered the groom’s cake, was a rich fruit cake; the other, a light cake mixture heavily decorated with icing and sugar ornaments, belonged to the bride.

While normally either one or the other is used, in some countries both make their appearance at the same reception. The bride’s cake, which is unlikely to keep well, is eaten at the reception, while the groom’s cake is kept for the first wedding anniversary. In Australia, as in England, the wedding cake is a combination of both. From the groom’s cake comes the rich, fruit mixture, from the bride’s the decoration and ornamentation. 

Wedding cakes are shaped into squares, circles, hearts, wedding bells or horseshoes. For a large gathering a number of tiers are used each supported on decorative plastic or ceramic holders shaped as pillars, doves or bells. Even wine glasses, tipped up-side down, are used as supports for the various tiers. 

The tiers are placed on top of each other in decreasing sizes. Some couples prefer to place each cake directly on top of the other, each layer supported by its own hidden platform. Those who like to get away from the pyramid shape have three individual cake stands of varying heights for each cake. Another arrangement is to have two cakes placed side by side on one level, with the third on top of them both. Others still arrange their cakes as stepping stones leading to an interesting top piece.

While Elvis Presley, for example, had a six-tier wedding cake, for most people a three-tiered cake has become a standard. The first, and largest tier is cut up and distributed at the wedding reception, the second layer is used by the bride’s mother to send to absent guests, while the third is stored by the bride and groom for their first anniversary. Alternatively, a couple may decide to store the largest layer and use only a small portion of it for each of their subsequent anniversaries. For storage purposes the cake is either placed in the freezer or wrapped up loosely and placed in an air-tight container.

A slice of the Queen and Prince Philip's wedding cake was sold at auction, 68 years after the couple got married. The fruit cake is wrapped in its original baking parchment and is still edible thanks to its high alcohol content.

A theme wedding is likely to influence the decoration, and even the shape of a cake. As well as, or instead of such decorations as hearts, flowers, cupids, horseshoes and love knots, the cake will be decorated with symbols of couple’s hobbies, sport or profession. The Wedding Cake with which the current Queen Elizabeth celebrated her wedding was not only 2.74 m tall, but was decorated with plaques modelled in sugar depicting various castles in which the queen resides, as well as figures illustrating the sporting activities of both the bride and groom.

The four-tier cake was made with dried fruit from Australia and preserved with rum and brandy from South Africa.

Imitation cricket bat and ball enhanced the cake of a famous English cricketer while a patriotic Irish couple decorated theirs with harps and shamrocks. Even policemen show sentiment on their wedding day by covering their cake with coloured sugar police badges. 




Some wedding cakes are not only decorated in a non-traditional manner, but are conceived in a wholly unique way.  An unusual wedding venue resulted in a wedding cake being baked in the shape of the building where the wedding took place; while an American politician had his wedding-cake made as a life-sized portrait of himself. The cost of the cake can go from one extreme to the other, one couple enhancing theirs with 14 carat gold decoration, the other creating a simple pyramid by stacking couple of dozen doughnuts one on top of another. 




Currently revived is the old tradition of dropping a number of lucky-charms into the cake mixture. Going as far back as the wedding of QueenVictoria, into whose cake seven lucky charms were baked, charms come in the shape of hearts, coins, thimbles, rings, buttons and even wish bones.

Check out the different ways you can Celebrate your Wedding and how to begin planning your Wedding Day.


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Wednesday, January 11, 2017

We can't All be Beautiful

It’s a sad fact of life that some of us – many of us, in fact – have not been born beauties. Not only that, some of us are just plain – well, just plain Jane. We don’t have ravishing locks, or incandescent skin, or kissable lips, or anything to show us as beautiful. 

Being aware of how that affects us, there have always been people who’ve tried to cheer us up. 

There’s the grandmothers’ encouraging words, ‘It’s not what’s on the outside, dear, that matters. It's what's on the inside’. Yeah. Right. Tell it to the thick-headed numbskulls who practically tear off their heads as they follow the progress of a woman definitely not plain. 

And there’s ‘Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder,’ and ‘Beauty is only skin-deep’. But really, do plain Janes find these saying reassuring? 

Of course, historically there has been the odd plain Jane who managed to snare a Prince Charming. But historically beauties have been numerously more successful in that field. 

Still, how does a plain Jane compete? 

One of these successful ladies has been Wallis Simpson. Not a beauty even to her friends who also suggest that her ‘inside’ like her ‘outside’ was not particularly attractive. She has been described as abrasive, aggressive, and rude. 

What was her secret weapon? ‘I am nothing to look at,’ she has been quoted as saying, ‘so the only thing I can do is dress better than anyone else.’  She explained her philosophy as 'You can never be too thin' and 'if you're tired of shopping you are using the wrong shops'. 

When King Edward V111 abdicated to marry Wallis Warfield Simpson, like all brides she decided to adhere to wedding traditions. 

For ‘Something borrowed’ she carried a lace handkerchief which her aunt lent her for the occasion. 

For ‘Something new’ she slipped inside one of her blue suede shoes a gold coronation coin emblazoned with the face of her husband to be. 

No one could see what she had for ‘Something old’, because that happened to be underwear trimmed with antique lace. 

But as to ‘Something blue’ she decided to make it her whole new wardrobe. This included her bridal outfit of a cocktail dress with a fitted jacket, wrist-length gloves, high-heeled sandals, and a hat. The rest of her trousseau of 80 dresses and 40 hats was in the same shade of blue. 

Now that you know the secret, ladies.............(Based on 'Honeymoon! A Sizzle or a Fizzle?').
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Monday, January 9, 2017

Readings for Your Ceremonies

Australian Celebrant Resources
600 Readings - Wedding, Baby Naming, Funeral, House Blessing

Comprehensive book of poems and readings suitable for Wedding, Baby Naming, House Blessing and Funeral. 

There are more than 100 poems in each category.
Many of the wedding pieces can also be used for Renewal and Commitment Ceremonies. 

For ease of use, the Wedding Poems are categorised as:
  • Readings about Love
  • Readings about Marriage
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  • Readings for Partners
  • Blessings
Check out the different ways you can Celebrate your Wedding and how to begin planning your Wedding Day.



The naming ceremonies have been divided into

  • Blessings
  • Readings on behalf of the Child
  • Babies and Angel readings
  • Adult readings

For the house blessing ceremony there are

  • Blessings for the House
  • Blessings for Family Members
  • Poems of Gratitude
  • Readings about Family and Friendship
  • Spiritual Readings
  • Invoking the Elements
  • Final Words


For a funeral service, the subjects of the readings include

  • Consolation and Acceptance

  • Mourning and Remembering
  • Elderly and the Ill
  • Family and Friends
  • Children
  • Inspirational, Spiritual and Philosophical
  • Committal
  • Pets
       





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