| Spring is a season rich with metaphor. There is no | | | | relationships. Celebrate this: Give people a decorated |
| reason not to capture that metaphor for your | | | | egg (preferably blown!) as a favor. (It will need a |
| wedding. Here's the thing. If you use metaphor at | | | | good box to get it home, too, so it doesn't get |
| your wedding, those images will remain your whole | | | | crushed in the packing! |
| life as reminders of the richness of your love. | | | | 3. Life-giving: There's new life everywhere during the |
| Exploring those images with and before your | | | | spring. Love gives us a new lease, a new chance and |
| community also plant them in your mind. So every | | | | a new beginning! It's amazing! Celebrate this: with a |
| time they eat those foods or see those flowers | | | | Kiss of Love! Practice, it's good for you! |
| sprout or do that ritual activity they will remember | | | | 4. Thawing: For many of us, the love our beloveds |
| your wedding. That makes a marriage prosper. | | | | offer bring us back to life. It's a rare person who |
| Here are some of the richest metaphors to explore | | | | gets to marriage these days without some major |
| during Spring: | | | | disappointment. And then when we meet the right |
| | | | person, our hearts melt. (did you know that kisses |
| 1. Rebirth: Your wedding moves you from being a | | | | could soften your cells? Whew!) Illustrate this: Use a |
| single person to a person committed to another. Yes | | | | melting Ice Sculpture in a fountain. |
| you've been with your partner for a while, perhaps | | | | 5. Abundance of Joy: Everywhere you look life is |
| even lived together, but now, with your wedding | | | | laughing. Birds and creeks are singing, trees are |
| vows, you are committing to sharing your life with | | | | leafing, animals are snuffling around in the soil. There |
| your beloved. There is rebirth in that. And every year | | | | are more baby bunnies than you thought possible. |
| that rebirth spirals a bit deeper. It's not that you're | | | | Life is reminding you how good it is to be alive. |
| not still an individual, but you are a committed | | | | Illustrate this: let your first dance be something |
| individual. Only love has the power to move us, time | | | | Joyous: dance to a cartoon song or something that |
| and again, to be called back to life by love. Illustrate | | | | makes you laugh and spin in circles. |
| this: Give everyone a potted plant with a bulb just | | | | Weddings are solemn because of the importance of |
| slightly sprouted as a favor. That bulb can be planted | | | | the vows you're exchanging. They are joyous and |
| and will grow again. | | | | exhilarating as well. The more you celebrate those |
| 2. Fertility: If you're hoping to have babies, this | | | | qualities, the more you will call those qualities into |
| metaphor is a pretty obvious one. Spring is the time | | | | marriage. You want to take your vows seriously. But |
| of the birds and bees after all. But Fertility is also | | | | you want to enjoy and revel in your life together. |
| about the richness of creativity and life. We are more | | | | Let Spring help! |
| fertile in relationship. This is particularly true in intimate | | | | |