“Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” - Robert Heinlein

email: rpowersrev@aol.com P.O. Box 2595 Leucadia, CA 92024 760-929-1001

Reverend Richleigh Hale Powers
San Diego's favorite Wedding Chaplain for over 18 years Powers Ministries

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PREFACE & INTRODUCTION

Rev Richleigh Hale Powers, San Diego California’s premier wedding celebrant for nearly 20 years, now announces the release of the exciting latest edition of his acclaimed book, “The Romance of the Wedding Ceremony”, an informative step by step guide on how to compose and personalize your wedding ceremony.

Taking time for decisions concerning cakes, florists, caterers, photographers, musicians and entertainment is obvious when planning your Special day. Remember to dedicate some time to your wedding ceremony itself. It is the pivotal time in your lives when you are choosing that one person to the exclusion of all others with whom you are sharing your sacred vows.

The purpose of this book is to help you reflect the Romantic journey of Love that each couple has traveled to bring you to this moment of commitment.

Many books have been written about the social aspects of planning a wedding ceremony, however, until now, one would be hard-pressed to find a book dedicated to the actual composing of the wedding ceremony.

Reverend Powers’s book provides a breakdown of the typical ceremony and a collection of wedding ceremonies, poems, readings, and prayers, as well as wedding traditions, wedding timetable, and ceremony line-up to assist in stress-free wedding ceremony planning.

The reader may compose a personalized ceremony by choosing selections of choice from each chapter, combining their choices into an easy to follow personalized wedding ceremony worksheet to reflect your own unique wedding ceremony celebration.

You will also find many completed ceremonies which m ay be used “as is” or take parts of each ceremony to “mix and match” into something new!

As a chaplain officiating more than 200 weddings each year, he is aware that wedding planning can be stressful, and your time is very valuable; therefore, he has attempted to provide the “very best of the best” in his experience of marriage vows, wedding address, ring exchange, traditions, rituals, prayers, readings, and blessings.

“Your unique wedding ceremony is a Special time, a joyous celebration, a day to cherish always.
May you be blessed in your commitment and it is my hope that this book will enhance
“The Romance in Your Wedding Ceremony””

Rev Richleigh Hale Powers, Ph.D.
Chaplain

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Holly Peterson – Day of Perfection – Event Planning & Coordination: Your book; “The Romance of the Wedding Ceremony”; this is going to be helpful to a lot of brides who are at a loss as to the ceremony and the wording. It is often up to the officiant as the couple doesn’t know what to do or where to look for inspiration.