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WEDDING GODDESS SUPPORT GROUPS and INDIVIDUAL COUNSELING: Many brides end up crazed by wedding preparations, wedding pressures and family dynamics. Some never even get to enjoy their big day because it is so riddled with stress. Rev. Laurie Sue gently guides you through the spiritual/emotional aspects of various stages of wedding planning and shows you how to relax and treat each leg of the journey as a rite of passage, and nurture yourself, your beloved and your relationship, while gracefully dealing with family, friends and vendors.

WEDDING CEREMONY CONSULTATION:
It's your special day and it should go your way. Rev. Laurie Sue works with you to create a ceremony that is perfect and personal for you. Every marriage is unique, so should the ceremony that is to be the foundation of your married life together. Consultation includes: Insights into the format and legalities of a wedding ceremony; creative and romantic approaches; readings and poems; family participation; special rituals and ceremonial aspects from many cultures.

MARRY YOURSELF FIRST
Individual counseling and a course for single women on how to love, honor and cherish themselves as a path to find true love. Includes creating and speaking "self love vows."

Rev. Laurie Sue Brockway is a hip and contemporary clergy person who offers a truly unique, personal and memorable approach to marrying couples in love.

Her wedding ministry offers creative, contemporary and loving ceremonies to brides and grooms of all backgrounds, traditions, faiths as well as uniting same sex couple in spiritual marriage.

She brings warmth and magic to making your nuptial dreams come true.

As an interfaith minister she can craft wedding ceremonies that include elements of any religion or spiritual practice -- Jewish, Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, Sufi, Native American, African, Hawaiian and Pagan, for example. She is able to blend spiritual traditions in a way that is personally meaningful to each couple and their families.

She is also a non-denominational wedding officiant, which means she can craft and officiate ceremonies that are non-religious, or that are civil, in nature. Still, the ceremony can be very meaningful, personal and moving to bride and groom.

“Many of the couples who seek my services want a ceremony free of religious dogma, or devoid of religion altogether," says Rev. Laurie Sue. "Maybe they want to include certain traditions – like unity candles or breaking the glass – but they don’t want to feel locked into religious protocol. They want a creative, personal and memorable moment at the altar. And they want to enjoy that moment, have it be magical and a celebration of the spirit of their relationship.”

And that’s what Rev. Laurie Sue has made possible for hundreds of couples. Some ceremonies are romantic, creative civil ceremony. Some are what she called “wedding theater”, rich with rituals and readings by many people close to a couple. Maybe it is funny and offbeat and shares the tale of how a couple met, or how they got engaged. Then there are those couples who just want to say “I do,” and be done. For those people she offers a simpler, shorter service.

Regardless of the kind of ceremony – spiritual or civil – Rev. Laurie Sue will craft a ceremony to truly reflect the values of the people who are getting married. Sometimes this includes coaching the couple on writing their own vows, or providing the perfect words for them to express on their wedding day. The couple always approves the wedding script before the big day so they can relax in knowing exactly how it will go.

“I encourage couples to celebrate their love, and I do my best to help them dodge tricky religious, cultural and family issues" she says. "Brides are often worried about family disharmony over one thing or another. I try to diffuse it by finding ways to celebrate and include the family. I think the wedding ceremony can heal and uplift a family, as it creates a good foundation for a marriage to grow.”

The publication of "A Goddess Is A Girl’s Best Friend" has increased the call for Rev. Laurie Sue to create and officiate spiritual ceremonies based on the ancient earth-honoring traditions. For couples who like the idea of a male/female clergy team, she also officiates weddings with her own beloved, Rev. Vic Fuhrman.

Rev. Laurie Sue has brought hundreds of brides through the process of preparing for their wedding day. She shares her experience and wisdom -- as well as the insights of many brides she has worked with -- in her newest book, "Wedding Goddess." It is due out from Perigee Books in Spring 2005.