Lake Wedding

What could be more fun than a boat wedding on Goodyear Lake? How many celebrants get to spend their rehearsal hour out on a boat on a beautiful afternoon while the pilot practices getting the boat into the right position for the ceremony? This is what I got to do this past July when I officiated at the wedding of two water-lovers, Les and Holly.

On the wedding day the guests stood up on the tiered deck of Les's lake-front cottage while we processed down to the dock, onto the boat, and then out onto the water. There was just room on the boat for we three, the best man and maid-of-honor, and the pilot. I used a microphone so that those on the deck could hear me above the lake breeze. The ceremony was simple, without any rituals, but I think the boatride itself was a ritual, symbolic of this couple's love for water - both lake and ocean. Their first date was a walk on the ocean beach in Florida, and most of their time together is spent either in Florida or at the lake cottage. The bride and her daughter, the maid-of-honor, wore shell necklaces and shell belts, and the men wore white Hawaiian shirts. Even the wedding cake was decorated with white scallops!