My rehearsal is booked and in under a fortnight, we shall traipse off to a park, to practise getting married, before coming home, freaking the fuck out about details and shouting at each other. I can accept this, just as I can accept the fact that we will still get married, because love is shouting at each other and still wanting to see their face.
Eventually.
The hardest part here is now I have to write a wedding ceremony, because everything I had read, all of the samples, all of the words, they all feel plasticky and cardboard, not real and made with parts of soul. Is that weird, that I think words can have souls?
I suspect that writing my wedding ceremony will be harder than anything else I’ve done, but then, this is what I do. I write things down and make people read them.
But.
This isn’t a blog post, or words that I hide in the back of my computer in the hidden files – no, this is something to be read in front of EVERYBODY and help?
Give Children to Nathan, hijack your mother to pick you up, go to cafe with pen and paper, have a coffee and write what is in your heart.
Write about how Nathan makes you feel,
Write about what he means to you.
write about how you would feel if he left…
write about love, write about family, write about connectedness.
Tell us, the people who will be (or in my case WANT TO BE but cant be) at your wedding why you are doing this, what it means for you as a person to commit your life to someone else.
Hope this helps….
You will be fine. You are a wordsmith, it is what you do, You inject soul into soulless words and make me hold my breath at the beauty of them.
You’re a fantastic writer…you’ll do a great job! But if you want some inspiration, watch this. I initially watched it for the videography which is fantastic, but the words? Wow.
http://www.jeffwoodvisuals.com/shortform/jen-chris/
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