Description
Handfasting & Wedding Rituals. $25.00.
Your wedding day is one of the happiest and most memorable days of your life. Yet for many Pagans, planning a wedding presents a unique set of challenged. You don’t want to alienate your friends and family by freaking them out with your “alternative” religion. Yet, you still want to declare your love for each other in a way that honors your beliefs.
Maybe you’re Pagan, but your beloved isn’t– how are you going to come up with a ceremony that honors both of your spiritual paths? Perhaps you want to incorporate some Pagan elements into your ceremony, but don’t want to ruffle the feathers of your conservative family. Or maybe you want an all-out ritual, but you just can’t find many good examples to give you ideas.
Help has arrived in the form of two Pagan authors who have performed dozens of handfasting ceremonies. Handfasting and Wedding Rituals has everything you need to plan the perfect Pagan wedding! You’ll find advice and examples to help you with planning the basic wedding, writing the vows, and constructing rituals. You’ll find practical tips and great ideas about everything from low-cost wedding favors to candle and bonfire safety.
This book also includes sixteen full rites honoring a wide variety of Pagan traditions. Modify rituals or use them exactly as is to fit your needs.
Wedding ideas include:
- Pagan handfasting vow renewal
- Celtic sacred grove handfasting
- Tarot inspired
- Peasant traditional
- Druidic and Celtic
- Grecian
- Warrior
Also, you will find three examples of handparting rituals if you and your partner wish to formally part ways. Rituals are labeled level one, two, or three depending on their level of overt Pagan content and degree of participation expected from guests.
All you need is love– and a little planning– to have the perfect Pagan wedding.
This is a soft-cover copy. Written by Raven Kaldera and Tannin Schwartzstein.
