Ceremonial Plans

Our fried Huck is helping us plan our wedding ceremony. Last month we spent an afternoon at Picchetti Winery in Cupertino hiking and talking about ideas for the ceremony that blends our Spiritual ideas from Buddhist and Naturalist traditions to weave a tapesty for our celebration.


Huck taught at Washington Manor Middle School with Margo and once retired, he's expanded his expertise in world travels, wood carving, drumming, massage therapy, alternative healing, and officiated at several weddings. Huck manifests spirituality in so many delightful ways. Here he holds his Emissary of the Doll card, which requests that we send him stories of how "worry dolls" manifest good energies to our lives.

During his last visit, Huck had each of us select a "worry doll" from a small bag, explaining the custom of Guatamalan woven dolls that "carry" the worries of their holder and promote healing. Margo put her worry doll to work when she took Greg to the ER for his kidney stone. Rather than worry about the complications in the past of the lengthy hospital procedures and healing time for kidney stones, she handed it over to the worry doll. The next day Greg passed his stone, which was quite unusual for him!


This Friday, Huck came down to help us finalize the ceremony details. We planned a Flower Ceremony, in which each guest will select a flower from the table bouquets and place it in a ceremonial bowl. The flowers transfer their energies to the water, which Huck distills into a special marriage aromatherapy for us. If you would like to select a special flower, you can check this list of flower essence qualities at this website: http://www.sacred-space.com.au/bach-flower-essences.html

Greg, Isaac, and Huck practiced a Drum Ceremony for the beginning of the wedding ceremony. Isaac and Gavin will be practicing to play a special Didgeridoo Heart Blessing.

After teaching two summer school Drawing classes, Margo got the idea from her students to make a wedding mandala for the program cover. Mandalas are spiritual icons fromBuddhist tradition. Their circular patterns and designs represent unity & completion to establish a sacred space. Students designed personal mandalas using favorite colors, shapes, animals, gem stone, and flowers. This student works on her mandala that incorporates a dolphin, sapphire, and sunset to represent her personality.Our wedding mandala will include a star sapphire, which represents heaven and loyal devotion, the lotus flower pattern from our wedding vests which represents enlightenment, the sun and moon for timelessness, and a pair of frolicing otters, which symbolize play, creativity and laughter.