Congratulations Geddes & Jill

My best friend from college got married!!  I had so much fun meeting her New York City friends and her new husband Geddes Munson.  They are a great couple!  The sealing took place in the Salt Lake Temple with a ring ceremony and reception afterward at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building.

The rooms overlooked downtown Salt Lake and the temple...stunning!  The decorations were simple and elegant.  Both Jill & Geddes' fathers shared stories of them as children as well as stories from their pioneer heritages.  I loved all the photos and stories told, it made the ceremony feel intimate and loving.  I've included the two readings that were in their program.  So romantic!!

The new Mr & Mrs Geddes Munson

View from the reception...not too shabby!

Jill's dad, Greg Fernald

A soul mate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks.  When we feel safe enough to open the locks, our truest selves step out and we can be completely and honestly who we are; we can be loved for who we are and not for who we're pretending to be.  Each unveils the best part of the other.  No matter what else goes wrong around us, with that one person we're safe in our own paradise.  Our soul mate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction.  When we're two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we've found the right person.  Our soul mate is the one who makes life come to life.  --A.A. Milne, Now We Are Six

Jill & her mom, Susan Fernald

Jill's Family:  Jana, Scott Greg, Jill, Geddes, Susan, Steven & Amy

But ultimately there comes a moment when a decision must be made.  Ultimately two people who love each other must ask themselves how much they hope for as their love grows and deepens, and how much risk they are willing to take...It is indeed a fearful gamble...Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, so that, together we become a new creature.


To marry is the biggest risk in human relations that a person can take...If we commit ourselves to one person for life this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which is permanent; into that love which is not possession, but participation...It takes a lifetime to learn another person...When love is not possession, but participation, then it is part of that co-creation which is our human calling, and which implies such risk that it is often rejected.  --Madeleine L'Engle, The Irrational Season

Two of Jill's brides maids.  Stephanie & Kristen

And now, they are famous!!  They were the lead story for the New York Times vows section!!  Is that cool or what?!!!  They got interviewed and a photographer flew out to SLC for the big day.  So awesome!  I thought the published article was wonderful and really captured the essence of the entity that is now Geddes & Jill!

Congratulations Geddes & Jill