Jumping The Broom Wedding Tradition
Jumping the Broom symbolically represents sweeping away your single lives and jumping into your married future. The wooden handle represents the strength of your commitment, the straw represents family, and the ribbons hold you together. The act itself represent love, togetherness, loyalty and respect – all key ingredients for the recipe of a successful marriage!
A colourful Naming Day – children are the rainbow of life
I grew up in South Africa where the following old African proverb was popular: “It takes a village to raise a child: the more people to whom the child relates, the more balanced and rich its growth will be.” What a fitting tribute given the colourful sand...
Ciao Bella! A heartfelt and fun Italian Ceremony
Once in a while love gives us a fairy-tale; Once in a while I get to officiate a destination ceremony; I’m delighted that Yvette & James’s Lake Como wedding at Villa del Balbienello features on the award winning blog Engaged & Ready. Everything...
Waterbugs and Dragonflies – Explaining Death to Children
“Look!” said one of the water bugs to another. “One of our colony is climbing up the lily stalk. Where do you think she is going?” Up, up, up it slowly went….Even as they watched, the water bug disappeared from sight. Its friends waited and waited but it didn’t return…
