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Ceremony Choices
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When you book your Dream-Maker Wedding you will receive a choice between two different, nondenominational wedding ceremonies and an optional Paiute Indian Blessing. The below explanation touches on the general theme of each ceremony, but after booking your wedding with The Dream-Maker you will be given the web address of the actual ceremony verbiage to review in detail. Ceremony #1 is a contemporary ceremony that speaks of love and individual and marital strengths, some of the vows would be "to have and to hold as an equal partner, in my life, to whom I give my deepest love and respect." Ceremony #2 is the traditional ceremony beginning with "Dearly Beloved, we are gathered here" and some of the vows are "For better, for worst, for richer, for poorer", has a nondenominational prayer, etc. The Paiute Indian Blessing is an optional poem that could be added to either ceremony, or not at all. It has some local Tahoe wedding history, performed at the first Lake Tahoe wedding.
Changes:
1. If you like; you can paragraph hop
between ceremonies (marking the paragraphs beginning with one of the
ceremonies paragraph/s #1{, jump to the other ceremony paragraph/s
#2{, then back to the original ceremony paragraph/s #3{, etc.),
creating a customized ceremony. A popular paragraph hop would be to
add the nondenominational prayer from Ceremony #2, to Ceremony
#1.
2. We also offer an optional "Paiute
Indian Blessing" that you may to either ceremony or not at all (the
Paiute Tribe used to inhabit the Tahoe area, beginning in late
spring and on into the summer and in fall they would migrate to the
Washoe Valley).
3. In
addition to our ceremony vows, you may want to write your own vows.
If so, please bring them written on a card (notify the minister) and
the minister will stop and prompt you to read your vows, to your
mate, at a particular time in the ceremony.
4. You may also want to have a friend
or family member read a special poem or passage, at a particular
time in the ceremony. If so, let the minister know and your friend
or family member will be prompted to begin their reading.
Most couples find that the ceremony
choices are fine without changes and will just pick one or the
other.
Warning: If you
change individual ceremony words then the minister has to read the
ceremony carefully to not pass over these changes. There is a big
difference between "Performing" a ceremony, with all of the proper
pauses, inflections, etc., and reading a ceremony, which can sound
more like reading a newspaper, out loud. Please note that if changes
are extensive, there could be a Customizing Fee ($ Ministerial
Rewrite $) added to your package.
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Clients may come by for a complimentary consult by scheduling an appointment
with one of our wedding/event specialists. The Dream-Maker® is located at
865 Tahoe Boulevard, Suite 104 • Incline Village, NV 89451