Archive for July, 2007

Our pagan wedding


The solemn exchange of vows of Marriage, ‘To Hand and Heart’, according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the couple (that’s us) took place in the presence of a Traditional Life-Rites Celebrant, a priest and two Brigantian Clans, Scartanore and Brigantii, at Oakleaf Circle Lammas Camp on July 29th 2007.

That’s more or less what the certificate that we received after our ceremony declares, although I’m obviously not going to name the man and woman who officiated at our wedding, or the many witnesses. But there were many—we decided on a public rather than private ceremony, and many of the people attending camp came along to see us get hitched by the sacred hearth on the final full day. We didn’t even know all the people, yet the good wishes towards us were felt throughout the ceremony. Our wedding was an overwhelming experience, beautiful and empowering and… many wonderful things.

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Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

Back from Oakleaf Camp 2007


I will post more tomorrow after a long rest, but we have just got back from Oakleaf Camp in Ripon, Yorkshire. It was the second we’ve attended, and we had an amazing time in the sunshine. We got hitched the good old-fashioned pagan way (known as handfasting) and that’s worth a blog entry in itself. I went away with a boyfriend but came home with a husband—as, of course, did he…

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Monday, July 30th, 2007