Native American Wedding

What exactly do you need help with? decor? ideas? vendors? traditions? .....

We are on a desperate search for a Native American Shaman in the Palm Springs, CA area to perform our wedding ceremony! We had someone lined up (or so we thought) but they are no longer available, and our wedding is less than one month away! (May 6th) We are hoping to find someone native to the area (Cahuilla) but at this point, any wedding officiant who can perform a ceremony in the style and spirit of the Native American culture would be fantastic! Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you so much! Peace.

-Danny

I live on a reservation/rancheria. But mostly what Im here for is my fh and I are looking for a wedding cake topper that reflects us, the best we could come up with so far is bears. Any help would be so appreciated as we are down to two months before our big day

Hello all im a young native male who will be getting married to a catholic girl and will be having the wedding in a church. She agrees with me that we must have my heritage also performed at the wedding. I am looking for traditions that are performed for a wedding.

My E-Mail is tamlin5000@yahoo.com if anyone could mail me with information or web sites that i could find info on i would be very happy. Thanks all

I too am planning to bring in parts of my native heritage (Comanche/Kiowa) into my future wedding. My future bride is Filipino so we are going to incorporate various elements from both of our heritages.

Hi Susan!
Congratulations andd best wishes I am very proud of my heartiage no matter how far back the roots are...I stand tall and proud today,tomorrow and forever.

Hi, My name is Ann Harper. I live in Ga. My fiance` and I are planning on getting married - no date yet set but looking at September. We are wanting to have a Native American Wedding but need some help. Would it be possible for you to answer some questions for me or direct me to someone that can. I`ve been researching the net but am finding conflicting information. Most of it is the same but I need additional details. Any help you may be able to provide will be appreciated. I can be contacted at anharper@aol.com Looking forward to hearing from you. I thank you in advance.

9-8-07 I am getting married. We are planning a home wedding. I am native american. We wish to incorporate the Wraping of the Blanket ceremony and the Basket ceremony. Please send me full details on both ceremony`s. Our Pastor needs information on these ceremony"s. AHO

Howka` my name is chazla i am from the sycuan band of kumeyaay nation. I got married about a year ago in november we had a traditonal native american wedding at our annual powow, we pulled many traditonas from differnt tribes. We did use the blanket ceremony the bride and the groom are wraped in seperate blue blankets by thier families these blankets represent thier past lifes of failures, weakness and lonleness they represent two differnt paths after your vows are exchanged you shed your blue blankets then your family or maid of honor best man will wrap you in 1 new white blamket representing a pure new life and one path before you. It is a beautiful thing!! also another custom is the wedding vase the vase has two spouts one for the man and one for the woman fill the vase with blessed tea or water and drink from the vase to become one (just as inportant as the ring ceremony). The basket ceremony has many traditons but basicaly it is an exchange offering a woman would give bread / wheat and fruit to symbolize her role in nuturing her husband a man would offer meat blankets skins to symbolize his promise to give warmth &security.
Any questions??
I would be more than happy to assist u
Many blessings!

Chazla
Cworrell@sycuan.com

We are writing you from the Tachi Yokut tribe in Lemoore. There isn`t very many pictures taken of traditional weddings in history books. My fiance and I would like a traditional Native American wedding. We also need help...

Dear Susan I have the perfect site for you. You must see it gives everything u need to know about an indian wedding http://signup.aaanativearts.com/article1404.html

Hey
We are getting married in sept and having a traditional wedding.. We found an amazing seamstress in edmonton, alberta canada. Who made our ceremonial outfits , we have drummers to sing and drum after the ceremony, and elder to marry us down by the river, you must come in from the north and him from the south, we are going around the fire, 7 different kinds of wood, 2 fires join to one fire together, 7 steps with 7 vows and having blue blankets symbolizing our old lives and join together in a white blanket to unit us, oh and the love flute out of red cedar,very important. We have drumers playing and singing with dancers to dance with all of us at the end of the rituals. Its it going to be AMAZING!!!

Hello All,
We need help finding a native american Officiant, or a native american elder who is willing to become certified or someone who is certified and can perform a native american wedding ceremony, in our area. We live in San Gabriel by Pasadena (Los Angeles) CA. We are set for This August 22nd (2010) and any help would be very much appreciated.
Thanks!

Hey Susan. I just got married traditionally. It was a lot of work. It took us 6 months and alot of tabacco and prints to give to the elders for there advice and to be at our wedding. Ot to many elders perform this ritual anymore, since everyone gets divorced. It is serious bisuness you are bounded together for life.... What i have learned and we are cree. It has to be by fresh flowing water. A singer and drumer are needed. Pipe carriers and blankets are needed. It is an amazing ritual. I made everything for mine. So if you have any questions let me know.