I have been a student of mythology and the world’s great spiritual traditions for more than 40 years with both formal training and practice. This has prepared me to help craft a collaborative ceremony intimately responsive to your individual tastes and traditions, yet I bring my own perspective on weddings and their profound and joyous import to enrich the gathering and the moment. The weddings I conduct are happy, meaningful and memorable. I find it a great privilege to serve in this way.

I have come to this practice from a variety of vocations: longshoreman, research technician, factory worker, cameraman, and for the last several decades, gerontologist and nursing home administrator. My early academic training focused for many years on that most impractical of studies – philosophy. Even more obscure was the graduate work in comparative philosophy in which I was introduced to many of the spiritual traditions of the world: Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, Taoism.

Presently my wife and I work at the ‘book-ends’ of life. She works in a neonatal intensive care nursery, witnessing the coming and going of new tiny lives, while I stand witness to the coming and going of those whose experience is vast, rich and completed. It gives one perspective.

Some years ago my step-daughter asked me to officiate at her wedding at the Chabot Planetarium. She and her husband are space fans. You can see some excerpts from that ceremony in the ‘samples’ tab. I discovered such joy in facilitating this right of passage for them, that I have gone on to offer my happy service to others embarking on their New Life as a married couple. I find it’s a real privilege to do this work.

As each person – and each couple – has a very specific path, I tailor my participation to support it the best I can. If it is a traditional ceremony, I try to infuse it with the essential meaning it was originally meant to embody. I know that every tradition has nurturance for those who seek it there.

For those of you who do not identify with a certain religion, church, temple, denomination, tradition, I bring a vision of life as a whole, and an appreciation for the role your Wedding plays in your individual fulfillment, in your family’s development, in our community’s advancement, in humanity’s evolution and in the ongoing life of the earth.