It
will take another thousand weddings before a young, intrepid
groom tugs on my sleeve and says " In our wedding Tom,
we would like to face our guests."
This website is dedicated to him, and the thousands of brides
and grooms who changed my life- and maybe with it your ceremony
- with their courage, with their art, and with their sharing.
More so, this website is dedicated
to the hundreds of couples who allowed me to use these images
of their ceremonies. With their new and creative ideas, they
mentored me, just as they are mentoring tens of thousands
of couples worldwide, for there are thank you notes on this
website from Ireland to Australia, and from Boston to California.
You are looking at version
3 of my website. The first version was posted to the Internet
in 1999. Though currently about 55 pages in length this website
may, in the future, expand out to several times that size.
Trust me, there is far more that I have yet to share with
you.
This website is intended to
both attract and repel, for I truly am not attempting to work
for everyone, nor will I do anything to get a couple's business.
You will find no one on this website getting married in a
swimming pool, or dressed as The Green Hornet and Cat Woman.
Everything I do in a wedding ceremony honors and dignifies
marriage. And it is those couples whom this website resonates
with that I want to officiate for.
The publication Real Simple
Magazine published their first ever issue on how to design
and create beautiful wedding ceremonies. Myself and others
were asked to be consultants to this work, and are listed
in the credits section of that publication. One of their journalists
had found this website. Again, I want to thank all of you
who through the years showed me a better way, and rescued
me from performing wedding ceremonies that were in many ways-
truly black and white.
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