For all the fun, stress and planning, mingled with the care and dreaming that goes in to creating your ceremony, there’s only one experience of actually sitting, standing, being within it.

Here we are, friends and family gathered, clothing and colours all decided, joy mingles through the crowd, sadness, grief, relief to be here at last. Some of us aware of all of these things, some focused on the job in hand.

We hold an order of service, we know what’s coming, but lets just take a breath here. The weather and temperature, the sounds in the room or around us if we are outside, feel the weight of your body in your shoes, on the earth. There is only now.

All the strength, the vulnerability, the clarity and the unknown, its all here. We breathe together, imperceptibly as the whispers of love, of the future and the past come together in to the moment.