| If you're getting married in the summer, you | | | | celebrate the bounty of the garden. Share your |
| might as well use summer's rich vocabulary of | | | | abundance: Your Love is overflowing on this day. |
| metaphor to enrich your wedding ceremony, | | | | Promise to do the work to keep the Love |
| strengthen your wedding vows and steady your | | | | growing and flowing. In your wedding ceremony |
| life-long marriage. | | | | commit to celebrating abundance and doing what |
| Metaphor really can do those things. Our psyche's | | | | is necessary for keeping it growing. |
| have an odd way of assimilating and connecting | | | | - Warmth: Warmth expands us and softens our |
| an idea of something with the truth of something | | | | boundaries. These are very important metaphors |
| else. So if, at your wedding, you talk about a cool | | | | that can also be attributed to Love. We warm our |
| glass of lemonade that can cool tempers, and you | | | | hearts at the flame of Love. |
| drink a glass of lemonade at your wedding | | | | - Relaxation: It's time to let Love help us slow |
| ceremony, from that point on, it will be able to | | | | down. So much of our life is focused on doing |
| assist you in cooling tempers. (Keep it handy! | | | | more, building speed and capability. Love is sweet |
| Marriage is challenging!) | | | | when we accomplish tasks in its name. But it is |
| So what are some of the more common | | | | also sweet when we settle down side by side and |
| metaphors that summer offers you? | | | | drift through the day as we float in a pool. Let |
| - The Sun: The sun speaks about openness and | | | | Love slow you down. Talk about this in your |
| the ability to see exactly what's going on. It is | | | | wedding ceremony, keep your activities at your |
| active and causes the earth to produce its | | | | reception to a minimum so that guests have a |
| bounty. We bask in the sun and are discovering | | | | chance to enjoy one another. |
| that despite the harm the sun can do us, we still | | | | - Play: It always seems that in winter the games |
| need that light pouring over our senses and our | | | | we play are more mental. (Can you hear your |
| faces. Pledge to be open with one another. Pledge | | | | mother screaming no rough-housing in the house?) |
| to take advantage of the light and productivity of | | | | When summer comes it's time for games that |
| the summer. Let your wedding vows benefit | | | | involve our bodies as well as our minds. Humans |
| from these metaphors. | | | | need play. Marriages need play for sure. Couples |
| - Abundance: The summer is full of bounty. Foods | | | | who are playful and light with one another |
| are fresh and wonderful. The fields are producing | | | | succeed in marriage. Find a metaphor that works |
| the supplies that will keep us fed and clothed | | | | for you. Don't use all of them, you don't want to |
| throughout the year. Share the abundance with | | | | jumble things up! Keep things simple at your |
| your community. At your reception, give them | | | | wedding and in your marriage! Summer is a |
| fresh food to drink and refreshing drinks to drink. | | | | celebration of the simple and the elemental. Drink |
| Shove huge bunches of flowers in vases to | | | | it in! |