Category: Traditional Ceremonies

• Speaking From the Heart ❤️ 

  Consider omitting this from your wedding ceremony: if anyone has anything to say about this union, speak now or forever hold your peace. Most witnesses don’t hold their tongues after you’ve been married for a bit. Especially if they haven’t been holding their tongue since before the wedding.  This is NOT the time to say anything…

  dora morse

  July 19, 2017

  Celebrant sister dora, Commitment, Non-Traditional Ceremonies, Traditional Ceremonies, Wedding Inspiration

  celebration, event planning, family, inspiration, love, marriage, pride, tradition, wedding

• Nelsan Ellis: Eulogy for a True Blood

  Nelsan Ellis (1977-2017) is best knows for his iconic work on the hit HBO show True Blood. He plays the short order cook with a penchant for telling you about yourself. Truly a great encapsulation of a queer person of color in a small Southern town. Lafayette was a character created to die in the…

  dora morse

  July 11, 2017

  Celebrant sister dora, Faith, Spiritual and Religious Motivation, Traditional Ceremonies

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• Small Affairs

  A wedding isn’t the only occasion to celebrate a time-honored tradition or adopt/create a new one. For me, weddings began to change when women began marrying themselves. This was not so much because they reached a certain age and hadn’t found “the one”, but because they wanted to acknowledge their personhood and validate self love.…

  dora morse

  March 29, 2016

  Celebrant sister dora, Other Ceremonies and Rites of Passage, Traditional Ceremonies, Wedding Inspiration

  ceremonies, event, funeral, naming, small affair, wedding