Elizabeth Frumin, Weddings with Heart

Weddings with Heart: Wedding and Commitment Ceremonies Congratulations on getting married! Weddings With Heart is a small group of clergy whose desire is to offer, design and perform a ceremony that meets your personal needs and desires at this special time, reflecting your orientation, beliefs and views toward love, life and marriage.

  Weddings with Heart:  Wedding and Commitment Ceremonies

Congratulations on getting married! Weddings With Heart is a small group of clergy whose desire is to offer you a ceremony that meets your personal needs and desires at this special time. We design and officiate ceremonies that reflect your orientation, beliefs and views toward love, life and marriage-making this time one of care and authenticity for you, your partner, family and community.

In designing wedding and commitment ceremonies or renewing vows, we like to meet with you for a preliminary meeting. The purpose of this meeting is to determine our compatibility and comfort, as well as show you some examples of our work. This can better help you make a decision for such an important occasion as well as help us more honestly represent you.

This meeting is about an hour in duration and takes place in our offices in Narberth, Pennsylvania (in the Philadelphia vicinity.)  and Margate, New Jersey. There is no fee for this initial session. If were are located at a distance, we can speak by phone. We recommend meeting face to face, if at all possible, for a more personal experience. Examples of ceremonies can be reviewed at this time, and we can answer any of your questions or concerns, giving you information you require.

Prior to this meeting, we ask that you please send me an e-mail and answer a list of questions, included at the end of this letter. It gives us information and insight to your relationship and needs for your ceremony. This may also  help you clarify and consider some of the elements and rituals you may include. This aids us in getting to know you and the qualities you want reflected in the ceremony, References are available if you would like to speak with others who have used our services.

If we decide to work together, the material and information gathered from our conversation and the survey will be used to write a ceremony specific to your values, perspective and needs. We individualize each ceremony rather than use a prescribed, or predetermined script. This working process allows for greater diversity and differences in personal, spiritual, cultural and religious views, while maintaining honesty and creativity.

Once written, a draft of the ceremony is sent to you for your review. Your feedback and questions are integrated into the draft of the ceremony until the ceremony is to your liking. This work is completed prior to the ceremony day and you will have the complete ceremony before your event. This way there are no sudden surprises or discord with the content of the ceremony. Our approach also honors you and your feelings with caring.

Fees are arranged with each couple.

Similar conversations and processes occur in preparing for other pastoral services: funerals, baby blessings and baby naming ceremonies, and other rites of passage.

We serve a variety of clientele, varying religious denominations and offer ecumenical/non-denominational and civil ceremonies. We are dedicated to making these special times fulfilling and meaningful for you and your loved ones.

Again congratulations on getting married, and if we can be service, please contact us.

Elizabeth Frumin,  Weddings With Heart, weddingswithheart@comcast.net,   610-667-8353, www.elizabethfrumin.com


Please  send  your answers to weddingswithheart@comcast.net, if  you wish to explore the process further.

1. What do you appreciate about each other?

2. What do you love about each other?

3. What does marriage mean to you?

4. Why do you want to be married?

5. Are there any rituals you want included in the ceremony? ie: rings, vows, readings, music, family acknowledgment, etc.

6. Where and when are you being married? Location, date, directions, time, etc.

7. Are you having a bridal party? If so, please give me the names and roles these people will play in the ceremony.

8. Are there any particular words that you are comfortable or uncomfortable with that I’d need to know about in designing your ceremony.

(ie: Some people want to include spiritual and religious references like the words God. Christ or Spirit, some people want to include words such as trust, caring, honor, etc. This can help me use language to best reflect your feelings.)

9. Anything else about your loving, your relationship, your history, your families and the ceremony that you’d like me to know about so I can better represent your beliefs and perspectives in the formation of the wedding ceremony?

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