LOVING CUP CEREMONY
On this your wedding day, we celebrate the Celtic spirit of the anam cara. Anam cara is translated from the Gaelic as “soul friend.” By entering in a partnership with your anam cara, you are joined in an ancient and eternal way with this person whom you most cherish. In everyone`s life there is a great need for an anam cara and so I ask you to toast one another by repeating the following.
(The Bride and Groom hold the loving cup as they repeat the following)
Bride/Groom:
Today I recognize you, my anam cara
And ask that you become a part of me, in sacred kinship.
With you, I have lost all fear and have found the greatest courage.
I have learned to love and let myself be loved.
With you, I have found a rhythm of grace and gracefulness.
Love has reawakened in my life; a rebirth; a new beginning.
With you my anam cara,
I am understood,
I am home.
Officiant:
And now, please drink to the love you`ve shared in the past.
(The couple take turns sipping from the loving cup)
Officiant:
Drink to your love in the present, on this your wedding day.
(The couple take turns sipping from the loving cup)
Officiant:
And drink to your love in the future and forever more.
(The couple take turns sipping from the loving cup)