Life Threads Ceremonies
Celebrations of lives beginning, coming together, moving forward
Weddings
Celebrating love, one couple at a time
Wedding Ceremony Types and Details
You’re in love!
You’ve declared it to one other, to your friends and families, and to anyone who can see how radiant you are together. Now, how will you say “I do”?
In the way you want, in a way that powerfully reflects you, telling your story…your true, one-of-a-kind, extraordinary story of love.
Red Rose, Golden Rose & Rosebud Weddings are our masterpiece ceremonies, each one dynamic and engaging.
Extraordinary Beauty. Premium Service.
Golden Rose Wedding Ceremony Includes:
- Our insightful Meeting the Beloved interview process
- Your ceremonial script written and edited to your 100% approval
- Our e-zine: Writing Your Best Vows with 40 Samples to inspire you
- Shaping unique wedding rituals and traditions to your liking·
- Unlimited consultations: email, Zoom, phone, meeting in person
- Professional coaching for all ceremony participants
- Full rehearsal on site: engaging, helpful, crazyfun!
- Professional mic and amp provided
- Arriving 2 hours early to greet and coordinate everyone
- A full array of beautiful artistic enhancements for your ceremonial space: Persian Wedding carpet; vintage signing table with white linen cloth; crystal vase and bowl for candle rituals; artisan cedar & cast-iron ceremonial stand; and, beeswax candles created at www.cascadiasociety.org
- Providing all requirements for your chosen wedding rituals: Handfasting, Ring-warming, Personal Wedding Vow cards, Rose petals, a Copper Saptapadi vessel
- Ring Out! A World Collection of 70 Bells, Chimes and Singing Bowls for your guests to make a joyful noise when you are presented. Festive!
- Your Celebrant’s Personalized Gift presented at the closing of your ceremony.
- Vintage linen hankies for those tears of joy
- Wedding Party Certificate
- Completed license mailed same day
- Handcrafted Keepsake Book created within a month of ceremony
Simple Elegance. Full Service.
Red Rose Wedding Ceremony Includes:
- Our insightful Meeting the Beloved interview process
- Your Wedding script written & edited for 100% approval
- Our e-zine: Writing Your Best Vows with 40 Samples to inspire you
- Shaping your 2-3 unique wedding rituals
- Unlimited consultations by email, Zoom, phone
- Professional amp and mic provided
- Vintage linen hankies for those tears of joy
- Wedding Party Certificate
- Arriving 1 Hour before your ceremony
- Marriage license mailed same day
- All services 100% Guaranteed!
Short & Sweet Elopement Ceremony
Rosebud Wedding Ceremony Includes:
- Our 2-page Simply Us, Simply Love couple questionnaire
- Beautiful ceremony including 1-2 rituals and readings
- Finding the venue and providing witnesses as requested
- Recommending a photographer, purchasing a bouquet or other local services as requested
- Vintage linen hankies for those tears of joy
- Wedding Party Certificate
- Marriage license mailed same day
Support for your crafted script
Rose Petals Wedding Consulting Includes:
- Reading and editing your personally written wedding script
- Reshaping your text into a smooth ceremonial structure
- Advise on rituals, elements, readings, etc
- Including extra wedding services as requested
- Presenting your ceremony with professional flair
- Wedding Party Certificate
- Marriage license mailed same day
The tender words we speak to one another are stored in the secret heart of heaven.
And one day, like rain, they will fall, and our Mystery will grow green over all the Earth.
– Rumi
Family & Community Ceremonies
“The more you praise and CELEBRATE your life, the more there is in life to CELEBRATE!”
– Oprah Winfrey
Baby blessings, child naming, welcoming ceremonies for blending & extending families, entrustment ceremonies, coming-of-age celebrations, birthdays, family reunions and wedding anniversaries.
Family life is abundant life; there’s rarely a dull moment. And so much to celebrate! Love for our families inspires endless possibilities for ceremony…
Welcoming ceremonies for new family members, whether by birth, adoption or marriage, have existed in virtually every culture. Publicly marking the entry of new members into our families is a joyous celebration to create together. Giving voice to our commitment to guide a child through life is powerful and enduring.
Families who regularly include ceremony in their busy lives are the stronger for it, even simple blessings at mealtime, creating a birthday nature table or preparing a farewell ritual for a beloved family pet.
Family ceremonies are especially close to my heart, as they nourish our children now, and the generations to come. Through family ceremonies, children learn that deep comfort and joy can come from sacred time.
House & Home Blessing Ceremonies
“Home is where your story begins.”
– Annie Danielson
Rituals to help us to say goodbye to a beloved home, or to ensoul a new one – in a house blessing, smudging can cleanse the space and open it to new possibilities. Sage for healing prosperity, rosemary for clarity, cedar for purifying, and lavender for balance.
We can see our house as a structure, or recognize it as a place of heart and soul. How many ways are our lives supported by our home, whether we have lived there for decades or are starting anew?
One of the things that makes a house a home, that transforms it from walls and pipes and wiring, is the inclusion of family and friends.
It is in the shelter of one another that people live. – Irish Proverb
Leaving a house can be traumatic, especially after many years. Telling the story of the house can be important in the farewell process.
Perhaps moving out of a place we have lived in for a long time into a new, different place is like listening to a different piece of music. We’re not sure if we will warm to it. It has a different melody and tempo; we’re used to classical and maybe it’s jazz.
We tend to carry our house with us, emotionally, on our back, like a giant snail. Perhaps it’s the idea of home, or our longing for the perfect one. Or just a matter of destiny. As described here by the Irish poet John O’Donohue.
Your soul knows the geography of your destiny. Your soul alone has the map of your future, therefore you can trust this indirect, oblique side of yourself. If you do, it will take you where you need to go, but more important, it will teach you a kindness of rhythm in your journey. – John O’Donohue / Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom.
Sometimes an elderly person resists moving out of their longtime home into a seniors’ residence, then is surprised by a renewed feeling for life, engaged in a lively community environment and no longer alone.
On Moving
We toast to new things and to glorious change.
To change ourselves and to change our world.
To know the need for it.
To deal with the pain of it.
To feel the joy of it.
To undertake the journey without
understanding the destination.
The art of gentle revolution.
– Michael Leunig
Healing Ceremonies
“Let us remember that within us is a palace of immense magnificence.”
– Teresa of Avila
In the chaos of an unexpected and big life change, gathering for an hour of peace to speak from the heart may be powerfully transformative.
Can ceremony be healing? Yes. In my experience, absolutely and emphatically, yes.
Often, a ceremony may be the only thing which can ease us from the grip of a shocking soul experience and help to transform our shattered sense of self.
A ceremony can support us as we work to let go of what is painful or what is passing, and to cultivate gratitude, acceptance and even celebration.
Ceremonies of Healing may support:
- Closure of a business, experience, community event
- Aging
- Divorce
- Losing a job or a home
- Health changes
- Empathy rituals with those in great pain
- An experience of woundedness
Squamish elder and storykeeper Wendy Charbonneau collaborates with Life Threads, offering traditional praise songs and blessing rituals.
