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Coffee Hour — Thu, 14 Oct 2004 13:49:25 +0000

Introducing ChaliceChick
ChaliceChick thinks she is exactly as qualified to judge blogs as she is to judge the pig competition at the county fair. As in, not. She still thinks she will be pretty good at it, but she�s just saying. She�s been a Unitarian for about five years now…

By: Philocrites

Philocrites — Sun, 26 Sep 2004 00:39:35 +0000

I should have mentioned that I have used the same service each time, too — with slight modifications. (I wrote it in my UU polity course, but I can’t remember all of the models I used. (Imagine a BCP-based structure but following the modern language of the Church of the Larger Fellowship Handbook of Services. Two of the couples preferred the theistic version I had prepared; the others preferred the less overtly theistic language.) The personalization that really matters are in the sessions with the couple talking about the meaning of the ceremony and of marriage in general. There’s so much ceremonial in a wedding — so much more than exists in the wedding ceremony itself — stuff like the reception and the toasts and the dj and the flowers and the honeymoon, that adding even more to the marriage ceremony always strikes me like suggesting that there be a dessert bar in addition to the cake. I mean, what’s the point?

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