Wedding at Rotary Gardens

By Steve Benton ( Contact ) June 22, 2009

I've heard that weddings at Janesville's Rotary Gardens are special, and after attending one there Sunday, I must agree. The Gardens were lovely, and so was the wedding.

It was the marriage of Darrah and Peggy Chavey's daughter Rhiannon, to Stephen Rudisill. The couple planned the wedding ceremony, including the readings, which I found very interesting. They chose passages from the Bible, Buddhist teachings, the Qur'an, the Navajo wedding ceremony, from the Baha'i writings of Abdu'l Baha and the Hindu Marriage ceremony. In addition they picked appropriate passages from A meditation on Art and Science by Albert Einstein, an excerpt from the I Ching, and from Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare. Finally they participated in the Burning of the Vows inspired by Zoroastrian traditions. They didn't leave much out and tried to demonstrate that science and religion can work together.

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