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Book Review: WEDDING GODDESS
WEDDING GODDESS
A Divine Guide To Transforming
Wedding Stress Into Wedding Bliss
Laurie Sue Brockway
Perigee Trade Paperback Original;
May 2005; $16.95
ISBN: 0-399-53099-1
Weddings can be stressful occasions. They tend to bring out the dark side of even the most loving families. Weddings push our buttons, trigger our emotions and unleash our expectations. Bride and groom tend to be a projection screen for the unresolved angst and issues of relatives and friends. A time that is heralded as the "best time" of a woman's life can also turn into a time fraught with stress, strain and worry. Many brides get lost in a barrage of negative energies and find themselves in a crisis.
In
Wedding Goddess: A Divine Guide to Transforming Wedding Stress Into Wedding Bliss
(Perigee Books, May 2005), author Reverend Laurie Sue Brockway contends we live in a culture so obsessed with "the perfect wedding" that too many brides get lost in a vortex of wedding planning mania, forgetting that the wedding is meant to be a sacred experience.
She reminds brides to cherish each moment of the journey, as she shows them how to transcend the emotional frenzy of wedding planning stress and take charge by rising to the occasion like a Goddess. In 21 chapters, she explores the wedding experience with a unique eye toward restoring the sacred - from suggesting brides ask people to bless their engagement rings instead of just flashing them and showing them off, to taking your wedding vows with you on the honeymoon and repeating them each night. She offers sage, easy to follow advice on how to get through each part of the experience with preparation, poise and a good sense of humor.
An interfaith minister and non-denominational wedding officiant, as well as a specialist in women's empowerment, self esteem and spirituality, Rev. Brockway is a compassionate, wise, intuitive guide. She's been cited by New York Magazine and other media as one of the most creative wedding officiants in New York City and she is known for bringing the spirit and fun back into planning a wedding for the brides and grooms she serves. This creativity translates well in
Wedding Goddess.
She fills page after page with rich insights, advice and many practical and spiritual hints on how to rise to have a blessed ---not stressed - trip to the altar. She treats the planning of the wedding as a growing experience, each stage a rite of passage unto itself. And she incorporates exercises, blessings, rituals, meditation, music, healing techniques, creativity, spirituality and playfulness into the experience.
Having married hundreds of couples in love in unique interfaith and non-denominational wedding ceremonies, she generously shares her experiences and ideas, as well as comments from many of the brides she has married and counseled through the wedding experience. These little snippets offer great tips for reader brides to be on how to have a powerful and graceful wedding experience. In addition, Rev. Brockway became a bride herself while writing the book and shares her unique experience.
Since she has a special expertise in the Divine Feminine in many of the worlds cultures (her last book was
A Goddess Is A Girl's Best Friend),
she opens each chapter with the wisdom of a Goddess - such as Roman Goddess Venus, on wedding day beauty that a bride can achieve from the inside out. Each chapter also has a Wedding Goddess Rule and a Wedding Goddess Vow - inspiration to help brides focus on being true to themselves.
And this is her ultimate message. As she writes in the introduction, "I see the Wedding Goddess as someone who can have an awareness of the "realities," stresses, disappointments and disasters of wedding planning, and also hold on to and nurture her vision of how she wants it all to be. She is someone who takes a special path to the altar, because she is committed to making that dream come to life - without losing her sanity, or her life savings."
Many books tell how to plan a wedding. This one tells how to include the sacredness of every step, along with the practical. This magnificent book is a blessing to any bride. I highly recommend
Wedding Goddess
to every woman who wants to cross the threshold in the most divinely inspired way.
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Rev. Laurie Sue Brockway, the author of
Wedding Goddess: A Divine Guide to Transforming Wedding Stress Into Wedding Bliss
is also the creator and instructor of the Self-Healing Expressions course
Find Your Spiritual Soul Mate: Transforming Your Romantic Destiny with A Romantic Resumé
Learn more about Rev. Laurie Sue and her uplifting course for singles now.
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