YOUR LOVE STORY,
STARRING YOU
THE PROCESS:
Step one: find somebody who wants to spend the rest of their life with you.
Step two: call me.
I have had a lifelong relationship with the written word, a relationship of ease and mutual appreciation. As we create your ceremony, I will use my skills to illuminate the turning points, the emotions, characters, decisions and magic that brought you together from your two paths into the divine space where you become one. We may stop for a quick ice cream cone, or a coffee. We may double back to revisit a highway or choose a helicopter where before we had only a tractor - we'll get there together, and it will be fun.
I engage an artistic approach to discovering gems in your story, serving as your scribe or reporter, listening to you as you unpack the many details of personality and circumstance that you found along your journey toward each other. Believe me: several years of marriage has trained me to be a terrific listener.
I begin by sending you a questionnaire to fill out individually. I then gather your responses together and use them to create a draft of your ceremony. Via phone and email, we edit the piece, selecting readings to add, discussing logistics and adjusting language.
The script is only complete when you are completely satisfied with it.
Crafting your ceremony can be a time for valuable reflection on how you met, what qualities attracted you to each other, what keeps you together, who played or plays a role in your relationship. Further, it is a chance to consider your place in life, the change that comes with joining your life with another. What does this mean to you? Who were you before, who are you now, and who do you think you will be?
This is your story. I will help show what you want the world to see, make clear what you want the world to understand, illuminate shy facts and highlight what everybody already knows.
Being single can be a bit like being in the dark - alone, without a clear sense of direction or balance. But to be in love is to be in a clear place, one with vivid detail and meaning so deep it rests in your bones.
Your wedding will be a celebration of this clarity, bright, open and ready to be shared with all.
Step one: find somebody who wants to spend the rest of their life with you.
Step two: call me.
I have had a lifelong relationship with the written word, a relationship of ease and mutual appreciation. As we create your ceremony, I will use my skills to illuminate the turning points, the emotions, characters, decisions and magic that brought you together from your two paths into the divine space where you become one. We may stop for a quick ice cream cone, or a coffee. We may double back to revisit a highway or choose a helicopter where before we had only a tractor - we'll get there together, and it will be fun.
I engage an artistic approach to discovering gems in your story, serving as your scribe or reporter, listening to you as you unpack the many details of personality and circumstance that you found along your journey toward each other. Believe me: several years of marriage has trained me to be a terrific listener.
I begin by sending you a questionnaire to fill out individually. I then gather your responses together and use them to create a draft of your ceremony. Via phone and email, we edit the piece, selecting readings to add, discussing logistics and adjusting language.
The script is only complete when you are completely satisfied with it.
Crafting your ceremony can be a time for valuable reflection on how you met, what qualities attracted you to each other, what keeps you together, who played or plays a role in your relationship. Further, it is a chance to consider your place in life, the change that comes with joining your life with another. What does this mean to you? Who were you before, who are you now, and who do you think you will be?
This is your story. I will help show what you want the world to see, make clear what you want the world to understand, illuminate shy facts and highlight what everybody already knows.
Being single can be a bit like being in the dark - alone, without a clear sense of direction or balance. But to be in love is to be in a clear place, one with vivid detail and meaning so deep it rests in your bones.
Your wedding will be a celebration of this clarity, bright, open and ready to be shared with all.
Caffe Bene is a good place to meet up with me. Their seating areas are designed to resemble libraries. It's a big enough place to have a private conversation in public. Corner of Broadway/49th.
Espresso macchiato in Florence, Italy
718.222.0110
Illuminating Ceremonies Christopher Shelley
