Share your joy.
Tell your love story.

Every couple has tender, funny or colorful stories to tell about their union. With Sweetgrass, your love story is the heart of the ceremony. It is a vital source for the tapestry of words, music, movement and symbolism that we weave into your event.

Sweetgrass focuses upon your unique stories, beliefs and values

during ceremony design. Whether you plan for a destination wedding or a vow renewal retreat, you can relax. You have found the key to handcrafting an event that fully embodies you and your other half.

When you co-create your ceremony with Sweetgrass, it includes refreshingly relevant rituals, readings, music and vows. You call the tone: lighthearted, spiritual, solemn, funny, or whatever your imagination seeks. The ceremony may be secular without any religious references. If you seek an interfaith experience, we may select materials from a few faith traditions or spiritual practices with which you and your partner feel comfortable.

The event may be small and intimate or large-scale and complex, with many guests present. In any case, you will feel confident knowing every piece of your celebration feels familiar and authentically portrays who you are. Above all, you and your guests will share a delightfully one-of-a-kind experience!

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Weddings

Yes there is a bridal focus in the media, yet two of you are getting married, right? At Sweetgrass you will experience a calm focus on the couple - to learn about you both - and better reveal the magic of your love story. We begin this through meeting over tea, coffee or lunch. Co-designing a wedding ceremony is an art that presents surprises, laughter and maybe tears.

Once you have a ceremony script you love and feel entirely confident about, you'll sail through rehearsal and the ceremony itself with fluid ease. People will rave about your ceremony for years to come.

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Blending Families

Two people marry for a second time without children from past marriages present. Somehow, they hope to involve their children in a reception or private ceremony. Sound familiar?

If it does, Sweetgrass offers you fun ways to celebrate your new marriage with the children involved. Together, we design a ceremony for you to hold privately or for Sweetgrass to lead with guests present - at a reception for example. Sensitivity is always given to children's ages.

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Vow Renewals

Maybe you've pondered renewing your vows. You've witnessed decades as a couple - or a single year - the amount of time is irrelevant. Speaking fresh promises of love to each other makes your hearts beat faster. Sweetgrass helps you customize the words you speak to each other, whether it is an intimate ceremony for two or a party with many guests.

Go ahead and open yourself to the possibilities! You may face your beloved and unexpectedly see the look you saw during your wedding vows. We can find many creative ways to acknowledge your years together and embrace what lies ahead.

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Gay or Lesbian Unions

You have found your other half. Holding a ceremony - whether it is a wedding, commitment ceremony or union blessing - just feels right. Perhaps you are experiencing the waves of new love. Or you have lived together as partners for many years. Sweetgrass listens and learns, so your ceremony generates a pure expression of who you are as a union. Boundless creativity is possible here! Your dreams for a meaningful ceremony - spiritual, traditional, irreverent or secular - will manifest with Sweetgrass.

Sweetgrass is listed here on Wingspan's information and referrals page. Wingspan is Southern Arizona's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center.

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Anniversary Celebrations

Have you attended one too many uninspiring anniversary celebrations? If you are considering one personally or giving one as a gift, then undo the pattern.

Celebrating years or decades of marriage is a rare opportunity to gather family and friends. Plus, you may capture time for telling stories about the honored couple and hearing from guests. Sweetgrass helps you handcraft a format for honoring anniversaries in refreshing ways. You may incorporate readings, music, video, or participatory games to enliven the party.

An especially poignant way to celebrate a major anniversary involves developing a weekend retreat. With Sweetgrass, anniversary celebrations inspire the honored couple, plus everyone present.

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Adventure Weddings

Do you lead an active lifestyle, wherein wilderness is your most sacred place to be? If so, then holding an adventure wedding with Sweetgrass may be the perfect way to celebrate your union. Whether you love to hike, bike, climb, ride horseback, bird watch, kayak or camp - any of these activities may be rolled into a ceremony full of exhilarating adventures for you and your guests. Sweetgrass offers creative outdoor enthusiasm, eco-mindedness and varied athletic abilities, so you may realize your dreams for a totally unique event.

In southern Arizona and western New Mexico, we have countless locations for holding recreational commitment ceremonies in scenic places. For example, you may enjoy hiking to a petroglyph site in Saguaro National Park for a ceremony officiated by Sweetgrass and group picnic afterward. Within the Coronado National Forest we have access to stunning sites for active ceremonies to be held among the magnificent trails and camping locations. Maybe you come to Arizona during the winter for bird watching and would enjoy an intimate celebration at a magical place like the Patagonia-Sonoita Creek Preserve. With Sweetgrass, you can let your imagination fly!