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Pocono Wedding Talk is written by Lois Heckman (www.LoisHeckman.com) a certified Celebrant who officiates at weddings, funerals, and other ceremonies in the Pocono Mountains and beyond. She also contributes a column, Pocono Bride, found under the ... Read FullCategories
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surprise wedding
As promised the pictures that tell the story of last weekend’s ‘surprise’ wedding.
Thanks to Jane for sending them so quickly!
Here comes the rain again…
Today – one of my favorite topics… rain and weddings. It is a big issue for outdoor ceremonies and as I always say, if the whether is nice, no problem, if the weather is bad, no problem, but when it is ‘iffy’ … problem.
There is an old saying that rain on your wedding day [...]
cell phones and cameras and texts… oh my!
Today I’m not going to blog about specific weddings… what I do want to talk about is something I see happen at many weddings. Cell phones and cameras.
First cell phones. Please, please, please turn them off! This may sound obvious but its easy to forget. The ubiquitous phones have become so much a part of [...]
Three weddings…
There is always something to learn from every experience. As I look back on the three weddings I officiated this past weekend I am struck by how different these couples were and how their energy and personalities truly informed the ceremony.
Couple number one brought together an Irish family and an Italian family. The guests were [...]
Outdoor weddings in the heat
It’s been an unusually hot summer so far and many of the outdoor weddings I’ve officiated have struggled with it. People always have a rain plan, but no one has a heat plan!
Here are a few things I’ve noticed and some suggestions for dealing with it.
Guests tend to wait until the last second to go [...]
One wedding… many ideas.
What a great wedding this past Friday night. It was held at the River View Country Club near Easton, PA. I’d officiated there before and it was just as lovely as I remembered it.
The couple had quite a few special touches that I want to share with you. For our ceremony we put together a [...]
could this be true???
While listening to one of my favorite NPR shows, the very funny quiz show ‘Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me,’ I was intrigued to hear one of the segments revolve around wedding trends. Naturally that got my attention. The premise of this particular quiz is that the panel tells three different stories (in this case about [...]
Happy Anniversary…
It’s the 4th of July – our nation’s anniversary! And the date you choose for your wedding is, of course, your anniversary. Many couples keep that in mind. I have had many inquires (and of course am booked) about 10/10/10.
I officiated two wonderful weddings yesterday, the 3rd of July, and both of these couples chose [...]
wonderful wedding weekend
I often write about what goes wrong at weddings and how to deal with it all, because it’s a great way for readers of this blog to learn. But today I want to write about what went right.
This weekend I officiated at a backyard wedding for a cool, laid-back couple with two children, a relaxed [...]
Happy September