A Celtic Blessing for Sam and Lucy

(Set to the tune of ‘To make you feel my love’ by Bob Dylan)

May God Bless you with the things of Grace
Celtic sunshine always on your face
May the Spirit be your homing place
Where you belong to Love

May your people always hold you near
Greet your joys with their vital cheers
May they offer you their listening ears
May you be held in love

You’ve been my pebble since the day we met
On this beach so wide and long
I came home and found my room was let
And there we turned that place into our song

I will always be your Loopy Lou
Leap off cliffs so I can swim with you
Where crystal waters are singing true
Of how we need our love

A glowing campfire by the salty sea
Warms a future we don’t know yet
Lights a cove for all our memories
So we can never let ourselves forget

We pray the Greening of the Trees for you
May there be peace and joy in all you do
May the One God enfold you two
Our tender God of Love, Our tender God of Love.

Written by Jess Boulton on the occasion of Sam and Lucy’s wedding 28th July 2012

Wedding Word Weave for Giles and Laura

 A Wordweave for Giles and Laura

There’s a feeling like the buzzing of the frothing foam from a recently smoothed out wave

Like the leaping of the white sea- horses, riding the waves into the security of shore

When your feet tingle as the sea sucks away from the sand softening the mould of your tickling toes

When hilarity bubbles from the place of hiccups

outrageous comedy flooding the seascape with scandalous colours

This is how we feel when we are with you

It is corks popping from champagne, fizzing charisma over brimming glasses

Foaming baths and pink lemonade, crunchy meringue, the shock of sherbet as it hits the tongue

It is blowing magic bubbles on a rainy day,

The warmth of happy memories and a hug the size of the future

This is how we feel when we are with you.

It is the twinkling of a charmed heart, a hint of mischief in a dimpled cheek, a smiley wink

An effervescent energy bouncing our steps, bubbling out, infectious

It is supercalifragilisticespialidocious

It’s Blooming Marvellous

It’s how we feel when we are with you

Written and read out at the ceremony for my nephew and his wife Laura on the occasion of their wedding on  16th June 2012