It was not long before we started talking of vows and commitment.
I took some time for me to be sure of the relationship, but Charles seemed to know immediately that this relationship was right for us and that it would last. I wanted proof and found it when he stayed with me through some trying and difficult times.
In March of 1997 we started to meed with a minister from New Creation Metropolitan Community church and Summit United Methodist Church to pursue counseling for commitment and to plan a ceremony of Holy Union and public proclamation of commitment. We took full advantage of that process to work out conflicts in our shared life.
We chose to include in our ceremony a prayer for same sex union from the 12th century. To see the text of our liturgy of commitment please follow the liturgy link below.
We publicly took vows of commitment to each other on the 27th of September, 1997. We want to add pictures of the Union ceremony, the lighting of joint candles and jumping of the broom, and the honymoon when we complete those. Keep checking back.
