Celebrating Love's Special Moments (ePub)

All celebrations of love are like little dramas, needing the right scenes, the right script, the right players. Celebrating Love's Special Moments is all about taking the event and placing it in the right context, with the appropriate accoutrements, to allow the players to make of it something to remember.

It deals with both formal and informal celebrations that surround love, whether expressed as a legal commitment, such as a wedding, or an emotional one such as retirement. To the old well -known occasions have been added a few innovations, including the celebration of separation when disillusioned partners are ready to break away; perhaps even willing to search out another love.

So, wherever the readers happen to be in life right now - in love and loving it!, married and deliriously happy at it, bringing home a bundle of joy and amazed at their cleverness at producing it, separating and ready for self-discovery - this book is for them. Whether rich or poor, young or mature, party animal or just animal, this book will show how to celebrate love as an individualist, how to celebrate it as a traditionalist, and how to enjoy it irrespective.

Part One - The Event
In the Beginning - St Valentine's Day

First Step - The Engagement

Meeting of the Giants - The In-Laws

Out of the Box - The Bridal Shower

Pretty Maids all in a Row - The Bridesmaids' Party

Boys Night Out - The Bucks' Party

Gathering of the Clans - Rehearsal Dinner

Oh What a Sight! - Viewing the Gifts

And Two shall become One - The Wedding

Alone at Last - The Honeymoon

At Home - Open House

Home Sweet Home - Blessing of the House

Try to Remember - Wedding Anniversary

Once More with Feelings - Renewing of Vows

When Love is All there is - The Commitment

Welcome to the World - Baby Naming

The Two of Them - Mothers' and Fathers' Day

Goodbye to All That - Separation

What Next? - Retirement

Empty Nest - Alone but not Lonely

Ashes to Ashes - Celebrating Life

Part Two - Setting the Scene

Part Three - Catering

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