Need a History Lesson Here

[gardo]

Ok I need something kida last minute. I ned a history or a direction on Handfastings and Jumping the Broom. can you lovely ladies assist a Brother of Nature?


8)

[Jeannie Fitzgerald]

Check out these web sites:

http://www.handfasting.com/

http://www.witchery.com/handfst1.html

http://www.medievalscotland.org/history/handfasting.shtml

For more info, use handfasting for a search word in your favorite search engine.

[Athalia Jewel]

You can also go to:

http://www.theknot.com/index_main.shtml?HP=azindex, it has information on both handfasting and jumping the broom (and any other wedding traditions you want info on)

[emalia]

Gardo,
Is this book related?? Do I need to read faster?? :lol:

You getting excited or nervous yet??

hey gardo, if you want I can send you a copy of ours tonight....we are having the handfasting during our ring ceremoney. I have an entire copy of the officiants ceremony I can send you, but it is at home and I am at work..

Muffin

[gardo]

Gardo,
Is this book related?? Do I need to read faster?? :lol:

You getting excited or nervous yet??

No sweetie it's not book related LOL ... as for being nervous :shock: nope I'm in too deep for that now :augh:

I had realized that here I am Pagan and Proud and yet most of my family and Terri's will wonder at certain things so I wanted to incorporate them into the Wedding program with a bit of backround and history so that they could understand more clearly

i really do appriciate you ladies for helping out on this.

Terri and I did our Betrothel 2 years ago and now we are making it legal and all 8)

[Nevada]

Gardo...an alternative to hopping the broom is the exchange of keys and sword....your bride hands you your sword and acknowledges that you will protect hearth and home...you hand her the keys as the person who basically manages the home and estate....

that is so cool Gardo...we just basically said (to my Italina family that I am adopted into) we will have a Celtic Handfasting during the wedding ceremony. They asked and I explained what it was. I figure if people at the wedding want to know, they will ask me since we only invited close friends and family, so knowing them, they either already know what it is, or believe me they are not ashamed to ask what the hell was that all about!!!

Muffin

[gardo]

Here's a website I did in the Knot like forever ago
http://www.theknot.com/co_pwpa.htm?coupleid=104456506654764

[Isabella]

Something I've done in the past is help write wedding/handfasting ceramonies for people, to help incomperate the flavors of both into the ceramony.

Ideas that I can remember are simple things like: Tying the hands together loosely (loose enough so that rings can still be exchanged.) Creating a Handfasting Ribbon. (looks like a Priest's Sash but decorated with symbols, sayings, and peices of clothing that maybe you/she wore the first time you met, and other important things. I've had friends sew on buttons, punch holes in coins and sew those on, add photos that have been printed on fabric.)

The one that I wanted to so, was starting at the two ends, I wrote our birthday, then for each year, placed something that was important, and segnifigant to us as individuals. Then marked the year we met. I then took the two colors I was using as a boarder and ran them together into a circle, creating a spiral that marked every year we were together, what we did, to the day we were supose to be married. The center of the Spiral I created two circles that looked like a two Wedding rings, that marked the day we were to take our vows. I over lapped the two colours, so signify the binding and connecting of two souls into one life.

We never were able to use ours, because our wedding was postponed, and when we did get married last year, we eloped.

I've worked with a few couples on creating their ceramonies and handfasting ribbons, because it was in my intention to marry folks based on their spiritual desire and need. I still have the ablility to marry people, it's just that those plans go segwayed, but I still help create handfasting ribbons.

Maybe that will give you an idea. The ribbon can also double as the "Ring barer pillow" and have two draw string pockets in the ends to carry the rings. We would just mark them in two different shades so that we knew who's rings to remove from the pocket, and not get the two confussed.

[emalia]

Verry cool Gardo. A friend of mine did that as well when they got hitched..

They included some history aobut the handfasting ceremony, the besom they used (including how and who made it), the handfasting ribbon, and a bit about the elements.

They also did this explanation in a fashion that tied it in with modern religion so no one was lost or put off. Josie's family is Cuban, and Catholic, and not one of them was upset, or spurting.. But all said how beautiful it was..

The officient summoned in Gaelic (on my gosh.. I am so sorry.. I forgot that Nerak speaks Gaelic..) Do you still need?

[Athalia Jewel]

My husband was part of a Renaissance Faire wedding of friends of ours last year in which the minister adapted the handfasting into a more Christian ceremony. It was very beautifully done; after each of their vows, he wound a cord around their hands and by the end I believe they had at least 6 or 7 cords binding their hands.

[gardo]

Thanks for the input the Cerimony went great. My wife and I appriciated it. 8)

hehehe, Gardo said wife!!!!

Congrats you Rogue you.....

Muffin