Our Handfasting

As I have been a Wiccan for over 12yrs I decided that I wanted something truely more meaningful than the usual civil wedding but I didn't want to be a hypocrite and marry in a chruch or venue where I couldn't have the input I wanted. We had already booked our intimate but well dressed civil ceremony, for legal sake and for my parents as dad is not as understanding as mum about the whole Wiccan thing (as he puts it).

One of our favourite films is Braveheart and as we researched into Stuarts ancestors and mine we discovered that both of us had links to scottish clans and that just seemed to make the idea of a traditional Handfasting ceremony more inorder. It took weeks to work out what we wanted it to include, and to get together the bits and pieces to make it work. Firstly was my gown, I had seen many on the net and loved the ones in E bay but there never seemed to be the right one there. So one day I was looking again with feeling of dispair when this gorgeous gown appeared in my size in my price range and to top it off very much like what i was looking for and then some!!! so without hesitation I bought it, it arrived a few days later and all it needed was to be taken up two inches!!!! It was perfect, now to find Stuart something to wear lol, he didnt want to go to all the fuss of the jerkin styled stuff so I found him a lovely loose shirt from a fancy dress stockist.

The day arrived and it was chaos, guest arriving, food cooking, energy circles being worked, rooms being cleansed for the ceremony and the music being put on.

Meanwhile I was bathing in a ritual bath with my attendants for the day helping me through every step. One was doing my hair, the other painting my toenails and keeping me calm. \then on went the delicate make up, a two person job that was, one to get the base on then swap so she could get her clothes on and the other who was ready finished the makeup off. Off they went downstairs sending up my son who was to walk me into the ceremony. I walked in to the sounds of Harrys Game by Clannad and the celtic soft music continued throughout the ceremony. We had made our own cords and promises and where bound by the hands and jumped the broom from the old life into the new. It was very moving and all where in tears and then laughing. We feasted gave thanks to the gods and goddesses for being with us and cut a cake we had decorated ourselves with the help of the children involved in the ceremony.

It might have not been our legal wedding but this is when i truely married my husband two hearts one soul blessed be my love xx