Over the years it has been a great honor and joy for me to have had the opportunity to be chosen as the Wedding~Commitment Celebrant by Gay and Lesbian couples.

I feel privileged to be part of a movement that enables same gender couples to benefit from a dignified and meaningful ceremony, especially today in a society that too often denies them the legal right to marry. Just the thought that anyone is denied a basic human freedom makes me, as it does most everyone, very upset.

I’m proud to say that many of our Celebrants have expressed the desire to specialize in same gender ceremonies. They tell me that they’re deeply moved by the thought of empowering Gay and Lesbian couples as they express their life, their love and their ceremony together as a couple, with their community of friends and family - ultimately effecting and changing our culture and society. Same gender ceremonies have a special characteristic that other ceremonies don’t seem to have that transpire within the ceremony itself - with every breath, traditions are being broken and new ones are being established in a most profound way.

Today’s couples are bravely paving the way for future same gender couples to voice and ritualize this most important rite of passage in their lives. It is an exhilarating experience to be the Wedding~Commitment Celebrant or a guest at the ceremony. You will undoubtedly feel the pride, the respect and transforming effect this ceremony has on everyone that is close to the couple, and even the passersby! Within the content of the ceremony, you hear the couple’s voice, they are making a stand, against all odds, with laughter and tears about how they feel about their commitment and how important it is to them to be together in a loving bond as spouse and spouse.

The Lesbian and Gay couples that wed epitomize pioneers of our time. They have, through trials and tribulations, gloriously traveled the hero’s journey. And, we as Celebrants, make their stories known through a personalized and authentic wedding ceremony…an ode to their joy!

In time, it is my hope that all of Celebrants, coast to coast, get the opportunity (the gift) of being a Wedding Celebrant for a same gender couple. In the world we live in, creating ceremonies for same gender couple’s are steps in the right direction for human rights and self expression – validated!

Here is an excerpt from one of my favorite Commitment/Wedding Ceremonies…

MOTHER’S PRESENTATION/Same Gender Ceremony

Celebrant:

"If there was ever a truer measure of person than by what they do it must be by what they give. With that, we must declare that “mother’s” epitomize this ideal and have throughout our civilization, for mom’s sure do give of themselves – completely!

Here, this afternoon, Ken’s mother June, and Ted’s mother Patricia, presents their beloved sons at this Commitment Ceremony. June and Patricia represent all mom’s today. They symbolize the hearth, the home, the generation of family members that were and will be. The couple and their moms have a bond of love that’s ever-strong, neither time nor miles can diminish their relationship of...mother, son, and friend.

This is the time and the day, that both Patricia and June wish their sons a wonderful and blessed married life full of peace and joy!"

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