Steven and Nancy 03 Nov 2007
Jan
25
Written by:
25/01/2012
Dear John & Patti
Greetings from Nancy & Steven.
We thought it about time we expressed into words how important your guidance & friendship was to prepare us for our wedding & marriage.
I proposed to Nancy in the moonlight of Orient Beach in St. Marten, the Carribean.
After some celebrations & discussions we both made the decision to have our wedding in my home town of the Gold Coast.
After doing some research on our choices for venue, date, time & location, the next step was of course to contact a celebrant. I had your card from a wedding show that I attended & Nancy thought that you would be a good candidate. After talking with you, Nancy & I were very impressed with your questions and flexibility to our needs.
The thought of sitting through 4 meetings of 1-2 hours of religion didn’t really appeal to me but I was impressed when you told me you were not a religious man & found that with every visit I wanted to ask you more & more about religion, love, friendship, marriage, relationships & a lot more things that were concerning us before our big day.
Coming over to your home for the meetings was such a great sanctuary. Every time Nancy & I left we felt more empowered & relaxed with the knowledge & wisdom that you gave us. I felt that the meetings were somewhat of an awakening for me, they put marriage, relationship and friendship into context. Even the prayer that we did before & after each meeting had great merit & felt like meditation to me more than that of prayer. We both really felt that this was the best preparation that we could have had before our wedding & marriage. Your candidness and honesty during our meetings answered so many questions & we really appreciated the extra hours & days that you spent with us both.
People say that their wedding is the most special day of their life & now I know why. Nancy looked so beautiful and the service and reception went perfectly. We feel that our wedding was perfect in every way; we were floating from all the love in the room. I still smile when I think of our wedding, every time we tell the story of our day, one of the first things I say is how amazing it was to have John & Patti there. It was important to have only our closest friends & family attend so that is a testimony to how we feel about you both.
I personally loved that you asked our guests to be accountable and witnesses to our union, as I had felt the power of this sentiment when I stood by my best friend at his wedding a few years earlier.
Thank you John & Patti for helping make our special day as perfect as it could be & for showing us both that the love that you & Patti share is the most important gift that you can have.
All our love & friendship
Steve & Nancy