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Family Wedding Trip
By Cornelia Powell | October 22, 2008
I recently attended my nephew Matthew’s wedding in Angier, North Carolina, near Raleigh. The ceremony was outside on the farm of the bride’s parents…right before sunset, under an arbor built by Lindsay’s father. Chairs were set up in the backyard for a full view of Mother Nature at her best.
In the perfect early October evening, the quarter moon appeared as we watched the sun “drop” behind trees across a pond where horses grazed and roosters crowed and leaves were beginning to change.
There’s something about outdoor weddings that seem to be very grounding and restorative.
Also, there was a bit of “coming full circle” that weddings can demonstrate so well: Lindsay’s nephew Eamon was ring bearer — reminiscent of when Matthew (the groom) was a reluctant ring bearer as a little boy many years before. (See a picture in the current issue of Weddings of Grace on A Bride’s Story page.)
I’d say that the combination of children and weddings calls on being flexible…which I find to be a helpful daily practice! So Flexibility became the “NOTE” in my newsletter this month — Notes from Cornelia, the Woman Becoming Newsletter.
I’ll post it soon….stay tuned! love, Cornelia
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