Officiant

Life gets so busy sometimes and it can be hard to do things you want to do and to see people you want to see. Well, we took some time to slow down last weekend and went to see the person we asked to officiate our ceremony. For those of you who don’t know, we asked our long time family friend, Bonnie and she is very excited about her role. Since before we got engaged, Jimmy and I knew that we wanted someone close to us to conduct our ceremony. Neither one of us is particularly religious, so we do not have a priest or a minister that we feel a connection to. It is really important to us to have someone stand before us on our wedding day that really knows us and knows our love for one another. We both thought Bonnie would be perfect in this role. Bonnie has been a friend of our family since before I was born, but I remember falling in love with her on the weekend that our family went to Maine when I was around 20. We had an incredibly fun night playing “Social” and some of us had walks on the beach that we have yet to remember, but the thing that I remember most was this incredible woman whom I could not believe that I hadn’t known closely my entire life. She had this incredible, contagious laugh that we tried to unsuccessfully mimic on the way back to VT. Over the next several years I got to know Bonnie more and discovered so many more things that I loved about her. She has easily become more than a friend, she is a cherished member of our family. It is rare that you meet someone in life that is genuinely a good person, one whom expects nothing in return for her acts of kindness, but I have found this in Bonnie. She does not try to be good person; it is just who she is. When Jimmy came into my life a couple years after our trip to Maine, Bonnie welcomed him with open arms. If we met up without Jimmy, she would always ask how he was doing and say “give my love to Jimmy”. We feel she is the type of person we aspire to be and we are honored that she has accepted the position to officiate our ceremony.