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By Susie
Celebrant, in Columbus, Ohio
Specialized in writing personalized weddings and memorial services
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foot washing

9/30/2012

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To promise to serve one selflessly is a humble and awesome commitment.  Yet, isn't that what a wedded couple confesses to do?  They vow to love completely... in sickness and in health, for richer or poorer, for better or worse, forsaking all others and give only unto each other.   It is a promise not to be taken lightly.  It is a sacred devotion.  To truly symbolize the depth of that message, I envision a foot washing.

My vision consist that at sometime during the ceremony the bride is seated into a chair.   A basin, a pitcher of water and a towel  at her feet.  Her partner kneels before her and gently washes and then dries her feet.  It is then the grooms turn and the bride kneels before him and washes and dries his feet.  Both of them are promising to serve each other equally.  A balance of servitude freely given.  The message is powerful, moving, spiritual, intimate and full of hope, faith, promise and love.

(Jesus used this symbolism for servitude when he washed his disciples feet in the Book of John 13:1-17) 


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