Wedding of Caroline and Mike : North Shore of Massachusetts

Recently, I had posted a entry called home that mentioned a reading during a ceremony that struck me.  I discovered that the reader actually wrote this incredible-ness and has granted me permission to share this with you.  Caroline and Mike were married on June 26, 2010 at the beautiful First Church in Wenham, Massachusetts.  Stepping into this church, you feel history, you sense the past and I felt aware of what came before us.  Leaving this church, I was so moved by this place and their heartfelt ceremony.  Here is the reading by the writer and reader, Nathaniel Boyle.

{Home}

Consider your home. Ask yourself how many homes you have had in your life. How many times have you thought “I am at home.” And I don’t mean how many houses, or apartments, or walls you’ve lived within but instead how many moments in your life have you felt at home within yourself. Because a home is more than a place.

Consider what makes a home. If something brings you happiness, if it provides a warmth, if it gives safety, and if inside you find peace, then, are you home? You can find those feelings and still not find yourself at home. This is because we don’t find homes, we create them. And a home requires a special response — a unique, very rare ingredient — from you.

Love. Love is the reciprocal value that transforms those feelings into something greater. You’re never truly home until you love something. Love makes a home.

Don’t just make each other happy, embody each other’s happiness at the end of each day.
Don’t just keep each other warm, light fires in the winds of your hearts and burst stars in the nights of your minds.
Don’t just bring each other peace, declare armistice for the great wars within yourselves.
Don’t just keep each other safe, make each other invulnerable.

You will always have two homes in your life. Where you come from and where you are going. As you will always love the place you came from, you will never stop loving one another. Make a temple of the place that you have created between your hearts and call that home.

Imagine knowing that no matter which direction the world turns, no matter how hard it shakes you, your future will always be your home. Makes you the luckiest person in the world.

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I think it is such a nice touch to allow someone close to you to create something so meaningful for your wedding day.  It’s a great way for your guests to remember your special day and creates a special connection with the person who delivers the message.

Please feel free to view Caroline and Mike’s wedding day slideshow.

A full post, coming soon . . .

xoxo . . .