Assignment: Wedding Ceremony
Marriage/Relationship Blessing/Wedding Ceremony
Due 8 December
Meditate upon your own true relationship to the concept of marriage, including commitment to and union within relationship. Use this powerful opportunity to explore what this means in your own life.
Use your imagination to create a marriage ceremony based on the above reflections and insights, including a short address (2 – 5 minutes).
This assignment needs to reflect a physical ceremony taking place between two or more people. It is not a ‘marriage to self’ ceremony. This ceremony could be the ceremony that you would have liked for you and a current partner to have, or a future partner; it could be a ceremony that brings healing to a current committed relationship or marriage by taking it to another level of congruent commitment; it could be a ceremony for your parents, or other ancestors, that could address a situation that you sense or know would have been helpful ‘in the past’, and still would be – for you – if gave this your attention in the present.
It is essential that you perform the ceremony with your study group for practice, feedback and support.
For the assignments that relate to the creation of Ceremonies, the length of the work should be between 2000 – 3500 words (roughly between 4 and 6 pages).  Each ceremony is written as if it were the script of a play, with both the words to be spoken in the ceremony, as well as the guidelines for how this unfolds – the stage directions – and any materials needed for the ceremony to take place. It helps to imagine that if someone else were to hold the ceremony, your document would provide all the information needed for its set up and delivery.
Please include a max half-page reflection at the start or end of your ceremony about why you chose the material that you did, and what the process of working on this particular ceremony and personal material has meant to you in terms of your inner development on all levels eg. your body, spirit, psyche, family, environment, and so on.
