The ritual program that was handed out when guests arrived.
Thank you for attending our wedding. The service is going to be a Neo-Pagan service in the style of the Ring of *Ghosti-, a polytheistic Neo-Pagan Church that Robb helped found in 2020. The basic worship service has many parts:
- Purification
- The area the service is being performed in will be purified with waters.
- Opening Meditation
- A guided meditation to help focus our work.
- Honoring the Earth Mother
- Offerings are made to honor the earth.
- Statement of Purpose
- A brief statement of why we are here.
- Re-creating the Sacred Center
- Completes the spiritual setup of the site and hallows our hallows.
- Calls to the Ancestors, Land Spirits, and Deities
- Offerings are made to the various beings within our belief system.
- Calls to beings important to Michael and Robb
- Offerings to the spiritual beings important to Michael and Robb. These may be ancestors, land spirits, or deities.
- The work of the wedding, exchanging of oaths and rings.
- Hallowing and Blessings of the waters
- The priest fills the waters with blessings of all the spiritual beings that have been called to share with all who attended the service.
- Thanking all beings invited in
- Closing Meditation
- A brief guided meditation to bring us all back to ourselves.
A full explanation of all the parts of the ritual can be found on the Ring of *Ghosti- website at:
https://ringofghosti.org/ritual-order
Why Geese?
While Robb was dating Michael, and knew he was going to propose, he asked a Völva (a person that acts as a seer in a Heathen oracular ritual) what signs he should look for to know it is time. The Völva came back with “Geese”, and she described seeing them fly in their typical V pattern. That was the end of July. It wasn’t until a couple days before we were due to go on vacation with Michael’s family on Cape Cod that Robb next saw a goose. After the proposal, while looking for engagement rings, which are now becoming wedding rings, the shop where we purchased the rings had a Canada goose decoy on display.
So, we have embraced the goose, specifically the Canada goose as a symbol of our marriage.
Guest Book
While we have a paper guest book available here, we ask that you please take the time to fill out the virtual one at:
https://wedding.ghosti.net/guest-book
There is a link at the top of that page that leads to the form to sign the guestbook.
Photos
We do have an official photographer, but we would love to see your photos. To share them with us, you can email, text, Facebook messenger, etc us directly, or you can upload them at:
https://wedding.ghosti.net/photos
As the photos come in, they will eventually be available for all to see at: