SANCTIFY THE DAY MINISTRIES 

Weddings, Holy Unions, and Commitment Ceremonies
for All Couples

Based in Campbell, in the South Bay Area of Northern California, I serve Silicon Valley and beyond. I am available to consult with you, attend your wedding rehearsal and officiate at what you and your family will remember long after as 'the most beautiful wedding ever'.

Your wedding day is more than a joining of two people in love. It is the culmination of a journey toward the fulfillment of a soul contract. Once the connection is made between the two of you, you begin to live with a reverence for the divine spark within your beloved that struck the divine spark within you, resulting in the fire of love. This is the mystical union.

The great Sufi poet Rumi wrote:

"The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere; they're in each other all along."

(Translation by Coleman Barks)

As an independent Interfaith Minister, I honor all faith traditions and I can work with you to create a meaningful ceremony that reflects your spirituality.

My services include:

• A consultation with the couple
• Attendance at your rehearsal
• Ordained minister to officiate on your wedding day
• A beautiful custom ceremony (may incur additional fees)

Sample wedding ceremony components:

Invocation
Circle of Life*

Sacred Music

Processional

Couple's Declaration of Intent
Inspirational Readings

Honoring of Ancestors 

Exchange of Vows

Children's vows

 Lighting of the Unity Candle

Family and Community Pledge

Ring exchange

Recessional ~ with Prayer Chamber **

* The “Circle of Life” is a circle made from stones, flowers, shells, or any creation the couple desires that is laid in the space where they will stand during the ceremony. It serves to represent the sacred space into which the couple now enters. When they step into the circle together, they signify the body of their marriage: the sanctity of their intimate relationship that is shared only by the two of them. The friends and family that have laid the circle acknowledge and honor this new perspective and commit to honoring the boundary and sanctity of their union.

** "Prayer Chamber " is simultaneous prayer offered by all guests in attendance as the couple passes through. It is an outpouring of blessing where everyone prays from the heart as if they were whispering into the ear of the couple. A "chamber" is created by the participants forming two lines on either side of the aisle where the couple pass through to exit the ceremony.

From This Day Forward

From this day forward,
You shall not walk alone.
My heart will be your shelter,
And my arms will be your home.

Author Unknown

A truly spiritual marriage begins with Self love. Love of the One true Self destroys the ego's ability the divide and contrast, and the two truly live as one; small self interest is banished and the highest true Self is served by the marriage.

  

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Weddings for All Couples!

I affirm that the California Supreme Court will overturn Proposition 8 and restore the legal right to marry for
same-gender couples!
Read the 2009 Judicial Court of California News Release

While we work toward the legal acknowledgement of all marriages, we continue to enter into sacred unions that transcend these perceived limitations. We are all children of The One and to form loving families is our birthright.

On May 15th of 2008 the Supreme Court of California made a historic decision that overturned the ban on same-gender marriage in California, stating clearly that sexual orientation, race or gender, "does not constitute a legitimate basis upon which to deny or withhold legal rights."

Read the 2008 ruling 

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