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HANDFASTING AND WEDDING RITUALS

Your wedding day is supposed to be one of the happiest and most memorable days of your life. Yet for many Pagans, planning a wedding presents a unique set of challenges. You don’t want to alienate your friends and family by freaking them out with your “alternative” religion, but you want to declare your love for each other in a way that honours your beliefs.

Maybe you’re a Pagan, but your beloved isn’t – how are you going to come up with a ceremony that honours both of your spiritual paths? Or perhaps you want to incorporate some Pagan elements into your ceremony, but don’t want to ruffle the feathers of your conservative family. Or maybe you want an all - out ritual, but you just can’t find many good examples to give you ideas.

Maybe you are planning to become a Wiccan, Pagan or Druidic minister for your friends or coven?

Well now, help has arrived in the form of two Pagan authors who have performed dozens of handfasting ceremonies.

Handfasting and Wedding Rituals has everything you need to plan the perfect Pagan wedding. You'll find advice and examples to help you with basic wedding planning, writing vows, and ritual construction, along with practical tips and great ideas about everything from low-cost wedding favours to candle and bonfire safety.

Handfasting and Wedding Rituals also includes sixteen full rites honouring a wide variety of Pagan traditions. Rituals in their full form can be used exactly as printed or modified to fit your needs, whether  you are interested in a faery wedding, tarot handfasting, peasant traditional handfasting, Druidic handfasting, Celtic sacred grove handfasting,  heathen marriage rites, Grecian weddings, warrior’s wedding, or even a Pagan handfasting vow renewal.

There are also three examples of handfasting rituals if you and your partner wish to formally part ways.

Each rite is categorized as level one, two, or three depending on their level of overt Pagan content and degree of participation expected from your guests.

All you need is love – and a little planning – to have the perfect Pagan Wedding.