There are occasionally organic wedding ceremonies and I witnessed (officiated) one last Saturday evening. What makes a wedding organic? It springs from the natural, and a park wedding, rain or shine is natural, especially when the temp reaches 94 degrees at 5 PM.
This wedding was originally designed to be just the bride and groom and yours truly. The photographer would snap pictures and the couple would have a party in the Fall and show the photos and tell their friends what the day was like. But something Pied Piper happened on the way to the nuptials.
And we ended up with thirty guests, including the bride's father flying in from North Carolina, and her grandmother driving in with other family from fifty miles south of the city. So as we waited for the couple to arrive from opposite ends of the park, we formed an honor guard. And then someone said the two gorgeous teenage sisters (nieces of the bride) could sing a Josh Groban song a Capella in harmony, well....you get the picture?
This was an organic wedding, the ultimate in GREEN. The grand tree facing the swan pond was decorated with battery operated votive candles (you can't bring fire into the park); we had no chairs but formed a semi-circle around the pair; by default we opened the guest list to twenty or more passersby.
We were lucky in many ways. The girls ability to sing was just the stroke of musicality that added a refinement that I would not have imagined we could add at the last minute. But there it was. Green weddings at this level are not for everyone. As hot as we were, we could easily have been chilled out and hovering beneath umbrellas. But that's how the real green weddings work. We were all there for the words, the commitment and the joy of the outdoors and all its possibilities.
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