Welcome to your wedding day. That’s the opener when you both arrive to the top of the aisle. Perhaps this is the first time you see each other in your wedding finery. Perhaps you arrived together. Perhaps you decided not to have an aisle, or an aisle moment. In any situation, at all, there will always be a start to your wedding day – and that is likely to be at the start of your ceremony.
Recent Feedback to me from a couple was
“We loved having you. From start to finish – we loved it all with you. Thank you for being the key that unlocked the whole day…xo”
…and that, is exactly what I hope I achieve in all ceremonies – the key to unlock the whole day – just as you want it to be.
From the first words I speak to your guests, I am setting forth to create the atmosphere you want for your wedding day. These initial words are likely to be said before the ceremony starts. Good afternoon sets a formal, elegant tone. Hello folks sets a casual and connected tone. Welcome, one and all, short and tall – has a certain whimsy (I’ve never used this last line – I’d love to hear what you think of it!).
When choosing each and every word I prepare, select of on the hoof use, I later reflect on my lovely mum. She instilled in me- a love of words and language. She would NEVER spell a word, always nudging the battered dictionary over to me instead. Sometimes tho, I would get distracted from the word I was looking for to uncovering other, melliferous, erudite, superfluous, archaic… words. Her gift to me of language, of words, of interest and wonder in people have stayed with me.
So when couples want to thank their mums – I listen to them – thoroughly. I hear what they say. And in a wee corner of my mind, I bring Mum, Rusheen, back into focus and remember her with love and gratitude.
