Nashville Wedding Ceremony

12/25/2024

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During the ceremony, officiant Karen Burns, a nondenominational ordained minister, told them that marriage was very much like a tattoo.
“It’s a permanent mark on ourselves. It takes pain, patience and hard work,” she said. “It makes your blood flow, awakens your senses and makes you feel stronger, just as you will make each other’s blood flow, awaken each other’s senses and make each other feel stronger.”
After toasting their marriage with glasses of champagne and a box of Victoria’s Secret chocolates, the newlyweds settled down in chairs so Phelps could apply their tattoo wedding rings. Amanda Hill got a clover in honor of Ryan Hill’s Irish heritage, and her husband got a feather in honor of her Native American heritage. As Ryan Hill got his tattoo, he stroked his new wife’s hair and gazed into her eyes.
“It feels like she and I are the only ones here,” he said.
Burns, who is with Wedding Ceremonies by Karen in Greenbrier, Tenn., enjoyed planning the Hills’ ceremony and wants to help others like them in middle Tennessee and southern Kentucky.
“I found there was a need for people who wouldn’t be affiliated with a church,” she said. “I believe that everyone deserves a beautiful wedding ceremony. They shouldn’t have to be rich. They shouldn’t have to be affiliated with a church.”

07/16/2024

What they don’t tell you when you stand at an altar on a lovey-dovey afternoon in fancy outfits is that marriage, on paper, is about commitment and fidelity—but marriage, in practice, is about sacrifice and starting over.
Even when you’re tired. Even when you’re angry. Even when you don’t feel like it. Especially then.
You wake up at 3 a.m. to a snoring spouse and jab his side so he rolls over, an interruption he doesn’t remember in the morning, but you definitely do.
Start over.
You glance down at the gas gauge in your car and realize sometime in the last 24 hours, despite the tense words you exchanged over nothing in the same time frame, he filled it for you just because.
Start over.
You turn dress socks and t-shirts right-side out as you fish them out from underneath the bed and toss them onto the growing laundry pile that never seems to be conquered.
Start over.
You hear him reading a story in the other room at bedtime, making the silly monster voice that dissolves your daughters into puddles of giggles, the kind of deep-down-to-your-toes laughter you don’t show him nearly enough these days.
Start over.
You put away yet another pair of size 12 shoes that always seem to be cluttering up the didn’t-I-just-clean-this front hall, the ones that track in sand and dirt and the heavy load of responsibility he shoulders for your family quietly.
Start over.
And you learn, somewhere in the minutia of married life, that this partner you promised forever isn’t perfect. You realize how flawed and finicky and utterly selfish you are, too.
So you start over. Again and again. Day after day. For now and forever, until death do you part.
It’s true what they say: marriage can be hard work—but it’s humble and holy and beautiful, too.
In the spaces between the picture-perfect moments and the memories that weave together a lifetime stand two imperfect people who choose, sometimes even without knowing, to start over.
And it can make all the difference.
Shared with permission from Carolyn Moore - Writer

08/28/2023

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Great idea!

07/11/2023

03/23/2023

Amy Travis
If you are looking for a truly wonderful person to officiate your wedding and are also looking for someone to do so in a very personal way Karen is definitely that person. We love her so much. Thank you Karen for making our special day all the more special.

Thank you Amy for such a kind review.

02/25/2023

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02/17/2023

How fun would this be?