JUNE BRIDE
If you haven't heard, I got married on June 26th, to my dear Christer, former business consultant from Stockholm who came to Peru last June on a spiritual karmic quest. (NEW BEGINNINGS) He moved here at the end of last year to see if we could make a life together. It wasn't all smooth and storybook but we decided that making this commitment to each other was important not only for our personal relationship but also for our United Vision.

A few months after we met in Peru last year, I visited Christer in Stockholm. When I returned from that trip we first talked about getting married. A few days later (Nov 2007) in a meditation, I “saw” our wedding, outside on the grass in the Hamptons (NY) with a handful of people, officiated by a girlfriend from my seminary days, who lives out there. It was June 26, 2008, my parents' 60 th wedding anniversary. I mentioned this vision to Christer but we both felt it was too soon to plan anything.

Many times over the next six months, I let go of that vision but it kept coming back. After our April Gathering, where I received several clear messages that I should marry Christer, we went to see a psychic that a friend of Christer's had recommended to him. I went primarily as a translator. Soon after we arrived, she said, “You two are thinking of getting married aren't you? It would be a good thing because you are meant to be together. Even if he had lived in China, you would have met each other. June would be a good month. I know it is very soon, but there is no reason for you to wait.”
At that moment we weren't as convinced as she. But after a few more weeks we decided the time was right. We already had plans to be in NY for the family anniversary celebration weekend set to begin on June 27 th . My brother Brian had loaned us his house in the Hamptons to stay a few days before. Leslie and Michael, old friends from my NYC theatre days, were now living in Bridgehampton and offered to host our wedding. Susan Merrie, my friend from seminary agreed to lead the ceremony. Fran, an ordained friend from seminary with a house in East Hampton signed the marriage certificate. She also loaned us her NYC apartment for a week after the wedding for our honeymoon.

June 26 th was a Thursday and we wanted to keep it simple. Tory and Karen, long time friends from the city drove out and my brother Alan who had come up early from Atlanta with his family drove my parents out to the island from White Plains. Val, our storyteller friend who met Christer at the Gathering in April took the ferry down from Providence. There were 14 of us barefoot on the Leslie's lawn standing in a circle. I wore a white linen hand embroidered slip from my Italian grandmother's trousseau. A friend in Sweden, where we had been the week before celebrating Midsummer, made my flowered headpiece.
(Click here to read the whole ceremony.) It was a sweet and lovely ritual. The heavens sent a brief sprinkle just as we were saying our vows, my favorite being: “ to accept you fully as you are and delight in who you are becoming”. It was just as I had seen it in my meditation only more delightful. Christer and I bought cooked lobsters that morning to eat in the backyard after the ceremony and Swedish Schnapps for a toast. Champagne flowed as we laughed and played. It was a great day.

We will do another ceremony down here on November 8 th to coincide with the completion of the restaurant and new guest rooms we have been building. You are all invited! We're still newlyweds, I know but life has been much smoother together since the wedding than before. I guess that is a good sign.

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