Ring in Love Wedding Officiant

02/11/2021

To all the beautiful couples that Rev Bonnie cared for, you are welcome to bring your heart and spiri to her memorial service this evening at 7pm.

All are welcome ❤️💙💙🦋🦋🦋

https://www.1.rememberyours.com/bonnieberger

Reverend Bonnie J. Berger (4/10/1955 – 08/14/2020) was a human rights advocate and a highly accomplished interfaith clergywoman, wedding officiant, musician, trainer, speaker, and activist. She was a powerful spiritual figure who was devoted to healing the collective residuals of poverty, trauma, ...

02/11/2021

To all the beautiful couples Rev. Bonnie cared for, please know that you are welcome to bring your heart and spirit to her memorial service, tonight at 7 pm.
🦋💙🦋💙🦋

Details and link below

https://www.1.rememberyours.com/bonnieberger

Reverend Bonnie J. Berger (4/10/1955 – 08/14/2020) was a human rights advocate and a highly accomplished interfaith clergywoman, wedding officiant, musician, trainer, speaker, and activist. She was a powerful spiritual figure who was devoted to healing the collective residuals of poverty, trauma, ...

04/23/2020

"Each of us must ask ourselves one question: What am I doing to increase
the sum of hope in the world?"

— Arthur Burns

01/22/2020

"People say that walking on water is a miracle, but to me, walking
peacefully on earth is the real miracle."

12/22/2019

12/06/2019

I have never and will never officiate a wedding ceremony on a plantation. When I moved to North Carolina three years ago I truly was horrified to learn that plantations were wedding venues. I had no idea that there was a movement to decrease the influence of plantations on wedding sites. While I hate for these businesses to lose money, that’s the least that can happen given the blood that was shed on the land.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/wedding-planning-sites-change-policies-on-slave-plantations/2019/12/05/de3628d4-17b3-11ea-80d6-d0ca7007273f_story.html

Four major companies used for wedding planning are revising content that promotes former slave plantations as venues

10/09/2019

It may seem like a good idea at the time, and you get what you pay for has been my experience. A professional officiant is someone who has been seminary trained. Not Internet ordained. I don’t think a couple would hire a friend as a caterer just because they like to cook at home. Same with an officiant. Go for the professional.

These couples had to deal with now shows and puking officiants when they had their friends officiate their wedding

10/05/2019

I thought I’d do a wedding for a change. Please congratulate Emily and Brian.

09/21/2019

Nothing is inconsequential. Every grain of sand holds amazing secrets.
Each event contains mysterious messages. Every encounter with another
being is a point of contact upon which the universe pivots. . . . From
this perspective, we come to the realization that every piece is
integral in the unfolding of creation, including us."

— Rabbi David Cooper

07/20/2019

07/12/2019

This is from master teacher Brene Brown. Relationships take ongoing work. Communication is a core skill. And choosing love over fear.

04/29/2019

Congratulations to Emily and Clif.

04/27/2019

So, what are your feelings about destination weddings?

Yes, it's your 'big' day. But it's our money and vacation time.

04/24/2019

What do you think about this? I did have a couple who were not Jewish who asked to break a glass at the end of their ceremony to symbolize the end of LGBTQ discrimination. Couples use the pagan handfasting ceremony all the time. How would it be if a white couple jumped the broom? What are your thoughts?

Our wedding rituals, while beautiful, aren’t about photo ops and guest reactions.

02/20/2019

Some very good points here…

Here's what it takes to have a long and happy relationship.

04/30/2018

May God make you holy when you feel numb and immobile,
paralyzed by fear or anxiety, anesthetized by compulsion or trauma.
May God lift you up and out of your dead places with loving arms
and breathe into you hope and life beyond measure.
Held by the hand of God, may you see your life in a new way
and with new possibilities—
with the eyes of the Creator who sees the whole of you
and loves it unconditionally.
May the God of Vitality bless you.
Amen.

-- Maxine Shonk, OP