For the Wedding Couple
Overview
Find the perfect words for your perfect day.
Transform your wedding day into blissful #weddingcontent with poetry!
Be the first among your friends to script your modern wedding event.
Bring a creative difference to your effortless wedding day with personalized poems.
A poem or song written to celebrate a marriage, or a nuptial ode, is called an epithalamium (e-pe-tha-LEY-me-um).
Poetry du Jour poems capture your feelings and wishes for your spouse-to-be without rhyme, cliché, affect or sentimentality. Poems can be funny, messy, authentic.
You and your spouse may create poems for each other.
Allow me to help you to create your one-of-a-kind poem in honor of your beloved.
For Family and Friends
Feeling unsure about what to say at the reception?
Uncomfortable giving a wedding toast?
Say it with poetry.
Give a unique wedding gift!
Together, we will create a poem for you to read in praise of the wedding couple.
Getting started -- three easy steps:
1). Get started by completing this Poem Interview Form.
2). Schedule a FaceTime or Zoom call with me to review and revise your draft.
3). Receive your poem in email before the event.
How It Works
* Wedding family and friends answer interview questions about the bride and groom's passions, visions, activities, and personal interests. Using these responses, I hand-craft your first draft.
* We connect via FaceTime or Zoom to review your draft and make any changes.
* I email your finished poem prior to the wedding day.
Beginning early in the planning process, we can invite family and friends to create poems in honor of the wedding couple.
All information is kept confidential.
For Northern California Events
Some fun options include:
* A Chorus of Angels. Imagine a group of children gathering before your wedding table and taking turns to read their poems in your honor. (I rehearse the readings.)
* Or, picture two children wearing owl and cat costume hats, and reading Edward Lear's The Owl and the Pussy-Cat.
* Wedding poetry reading. On the big day, I can read a few poems, and I can encourage guests and children to read theirs as well.
* A Wedding Poem Album - poems written for your celebration are collected in a handsome wedding album.
* Guests receive a PDF copy of your Wedding Poem Album via email.
As a classroom teacher, I have inspired surprising poems with children.
Poems may also be composed at your bachelor party, bridal shower, or rehearsal dinner.
Wedding Poem Album in foreground.
The Wedding Day Poem
On the wedding day, I mingle organically and unobtrusively with guests and ask brief interview questions. Using these responses, I compose an on-the-spot poem to capture your day's affections, festivities, and hilarity.
I ask guests to compare the wedding couple's romance and courtship with images from nature, such as mountains, animals and the ocean.
This may be done at any time between the guests' arrival and the wedding toast.
This unique and interactive Wedding Day Poem and its presentation are integrated smoothly into the day's event and according to your wishes.
Final Presentation
After the wedding day, I assemble both the wedding day poem and the individual guest poems into a single PDF file, handsomely formatted and emailed to your guest list.
A lively Wedding Poem Album makes a great compliment and companion to your lively Wedding Photo Album.
Cost
Affordable pricing. Discounts for groups of poems.
