Spring is a season rich in metaphors. There is no reason not to grasp that metaphor of your wedding. Here’s the thing. If you use metaphors in your wedding, those images will remain throughout your life as reminders of the richness of your love. Exploring those images with and before your community also plants them in your mind. So every time you eat those foods or see those flowers bloom or do that ritual activity you will remember your wedding. That makes a marriage prosper.
Here are some of the richest metaphors to explore during spring:
- Renaissance: Your wedding makes you go from being a single person to a person engaged to another. Yes, you have been with your partner for a while, maybe even lived together, but now with your wedding vows you are committing to share your life with your loved one. There is rebirth in that. And every year that renaissance gets a little deeper. It is not that you are not an individual yet, but you are a committed individual. Only love has the power to move us, again and again, to be called to life by love. illustrate this: Give everyone a potted plant with a newly sprouted bulb as a favor. That bulb can be planted and it will grow back.
- Fertility: If you’re hoping to have babies, this metaphor is pretty obvious. After all, spring is the time for birds and bees. But Fertility is also about the richness of creativity and life. We are more fertile in relationships. This is particularly true in intimate relationships. celebrate this: Give people a decorated egg (preferably blown!) as a favor. (You’ll also need a good box to take it home, so it doesn’t get crushed in the packaging!
- giving life: There is new life everywhere during spring. Love gives us a new chance, a new opportunity and a new beginning! It’s amazing! Celebrate this: with a Kiss of Love! Practice, it’s good for you!
- defrost: For many of us, the love that our loved ones offer us brings us back to life. Rare is the person who marries these days without great disappointment. And then when we meet the right person, our hearts melt. (Did you know that kisses can soften your cells? Phew!) illustrate this: Use an ice sculpture that melts in a fountain.
- abundance of joy: Everywhere you look, life laughs. Birds and streams sing, trees browse, animals sniff the ground. There are more baby bunnies than you thought possible. Life is reminding you how good it is to be alive. illustrate this: Let your first dance be something light-hearted: dance to a cartoon song or something that makes you laugh and go around in circles.
Weddings are solemn because of the importance of the vows you exchange. They are cheerful and stimulating too. The more you celebrate those qualities, the more you will call them into marriage. You want to take your vows seriously. But you want to enjoy and revel in your life together. Let spring help you!