http://www.thubtenchodron.org/DailyLifeDharma/wedding_ceremony.html
Thubten Chodron : a Marriage Blessing/Wedding
A Marriage Blessing
I was asked by a couple in USA to lead a marriage blessing
(This is different from a marriage ceremony, which monastics are not allowed to
perform) and prepared the following. Others may use or borrow from it according
to their needs.
Thubten Chodron
and
Wedding Ceremony
by Steven Vannoy and Samia Shalabi
The following "ceremony" was performed as our
celebration of our wedding. We were married in a private ceremony by a
magistrate and then arranged to invite extended family and friends to our
"celebration of love". We had our friend facilitate the ceremony, while we stood
holding hands, facing the guests with the main facilitator read what follows off
to our left. The crowd was more Christian than Buddhist, but we received a lot
of positive feedback from people, particularly of the kind, "that really made me
think!"
First names were replaced with generic pronouns
in order for people to adapt this to their own use. |
No comments:
Post a Comment