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A garden offers so many metaphors for a loving relationship. So if you’re either a foodie or an organic person, consider getting married at your local CSA (community supported agriculture) or at a small organic farm that supplies food to your favorite restaurant or caterer. (and then, of course, turn around and use that caterer or restaurant for your food!)
The garden offers the images of abundance. The love you have transforms your life and makes it bloom and expand. The organic images are powerful metaphors for healthy living and growth. And then, of course, there is the image of the garden as a community – look at the number of vegetables or flowers that grow better in the company of other vegetables and protect each other from pests. Gardens are both functional and beautiful. You know what? Marriage is like that too!
Summer is coming. Why not get married on the edge of a garden (keep your skirts a little shorter)? Not a flower garden, a vegetable garden. One in full production. Onions and peas sticking out of the ground, just as they should. And lean on the metaphors the garden provides to create a beautiful wedding.
- Your wedding ceremony: Talk about the ways love supports and enriches your life. Talk about the importance of crop diversity and how community keeps you healthy and growing. Remind yourself and your community that a relationship, like a garden, must be carefully tended to thrive. And if you hope to add children to your life, your marriage is the garden in which your children will thrive.
- Your wedding vows: Part of your commitment to each other is to take care of yourself and your partner by eating healthy. If you are people who care about the planet, you can work together for a healthier planet. Marriages with shared interests are doing well.
- Wedding ritual: Share healthy food with the understanding that part of what you offer each other is abundance and health. Whatever food you choose will become an important metaphor for the two of you. Every time you eat it, you will remember how you felt when you did that food the day you promised each other.
- Food: obviously this is going to be important. Consider making a booklet about the foods you will be eating and the foods that are part of it. If the caterer is willing, share one or two of the recipes. If you have family recipes, this is always a good idea for a wedding.
- Table decoration: Jars of greens or herbs, or an abundance of food that won’t spoil and can be used later. (even donated). People can search the tables for the photo that matches their plant!
- Charity: donate to the farm or give a box of vegetables to a shelter.
In good weather you can sit outside at tables where you have a good view of the garden and the wildlife that keep it buzzing. If it’s right for you, it’s going to be a beautiful wedding. Your community will walk away saying, I’m so glad they did this because it was perfect for them. That’s what you want. A perfect wedding that gives your marriage metaphors to live on forever!
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