Airy and Bright: A Pride Month Vow Renewal Overflowing With Love

Airy and Bright:

A Pride Month Vow Renewal Overflowing with Love

Portland, OR | Clarklewis

Classically airy and glamorous with white drapery, brilliant pops of rainbow florals, Portland’s premier drag queens and an 18-year love story? This vow renewal was one for the books!

The Lowdown:

Y’all. Tabria of Truly Trusted Events is such a gem. She reached out to me last week to facilitate a vow renewal of two dear friends of hers, promising that it would be elegant, fun, and full of pride (and drag!). I was thrilled to join the team!

The ceremony was simple— I wanted to create a moment of reflection for the grooms that was sweet, lighthearted, and full of joy. I opened with the poem “WOW,” by Hafiz (it’s amazing, I’ll share it after the photos), and then asked the grooms a few questions about their partnership. It was very sweet and profound in its simplicity— by the end, everyone had laughed and cried and the love was infectious.

Congratulations to T and O on the jubilant life you’ve created together!

WOW - Hafiz

Where does the real poetry
Come from?

From the amorous sighs
In this moist dark when making love
With form or
Spirit.

Where does poetry live?

In the eye that says,”Wow wee,”
In the overpowering felt splendor
Every sane mind knows
When it realizes – our life dance
Is only for a few magic
Seconds,

From the heart saying,
Shouting,

“I am so damn
Alive.”