Madonna Rock is a wonderful Wedding site. Only a 12 minute hike along the Chapel Trail and you find yourself on a Red Rock platform with a wall of Red Rocks rising up behind you, Madonna Rock and the Sisters enfolding you and sweeping Vista views of Cathedral Rock, Bell Rock and Courthouse Butte.
It truly is a breathtakingly spectacular location.
The energy here is very nurturing, magnetic and feminine.
Natures own Chapel Amphitheatre – perfect for your Sedona Wedding.
You are getting married!! He proposed. What better place to get married than Sedona. Sedona’s powerful and awesomely beautiful Red Rock landscape will be the perfect backdrop for your once in a lifetime nuptials.
Sedona Destination Weddings will make sure that your day is full of grace and ease, totally stress free and full of love and full of wonderful memories.
The only thing left for you to do is celebrate. Cheers!
Expect the miraculous in Sedona. You never know who will show up to your Wedding on the Red Rocks.
Everyone loves romance and these beautiful Ravens were no exception.
They circled a Ceremony at Airport Vortex and took all our breaths away.
A true Blessing from Spirit.
Sedona has been voted the most beautiful place in America. It’s moments like this rainbow over Courthouse Butte that earn Sedona this honor.
Sedona is full of breathtaking landscapes, vibrant Red Rocks, bluer than blue skies. Even a dark sky can yield up a treasure such as this rainbow.
There’s actually never a bad day or wrong time of the year to get married in Sedona. The views change from moment to moment. Photographers love it here – no two pictures are ever the same. The sky even when overcast blankets Sedona in Magic and Mystery.
Sedona is the perfect backdrop for your Sedona Wedding!
Even the Cactus wish to celebrate Love here in Sedona. This is only one of the many loving cactus abundant in the Sedona desert.
From the heart of Sedona to your two hearts. Come and Celebrate your Sedona Wedding with us!!
Sedona is the perfect place to Elope. Imagine a private, very intimate Wedding – just you and your Beloved and the powerful, majestic Red Rocks!
This is the ultimate stress free experience. Nothing to do save express your Love and your Commitment and create a memory that will live on in your hearts forever.
Kevin and Colleen loved their Sedona Wedding.
We wanted to thank you so much for the magical wedding at Cathedral Rock!!!!!!!!! Wow, if we had not discovered Sedona Destinaton Weddings we would never have known it was possible to be married in such a spectacular place. Further, it was known from the moment we first spoke, that you were a special person with wonderful energy. You truly have a gift and we feel blessed to have been married by you. Let us not forget to mention the joy, love and laughter that took us throughout the ceremony, WOW! Our wedding was beyond our wildest dreams and we will treasure that special day for eternity. Thank you for guiding us on our journey into the sacred union of marriage.
To the Spirit of Sedona!!!!!!
Happy Holidays from Sedona Destination Weddings.
Blessings to All!
There are so many lovely Wedding Traditions that you can add to your Ceremony to add richness, color and express your uniqueness and your love in a fuller manner.
These traditions come from a variety of cultures and historical times.
A very popular one is the Unity Candle and a lesser known one is the Honey Ceremony.
The Hindus have a lovely tradition called the 7 Steps. The Rose Ceremony is a sweet reminder of your Wedding Day throughout your life. There the Hand Fasting tradition from the Druids and the Sand Ceremony which is colorful and leaves you with a daily reminder in your home of your special day and the vows you made. The Hawaiians use Leis and the native Americans use the Wedding Vase Ceremony.
Then there’s the Wedding Pouch Ceremony which is unique to Sedona Destination Weddings. its a lovely little tradition that we created in the Spirit of creating a Sedona Wedding Tradition tradition found nowhere else.
Its a lovely touch to add a Tradition to your Ceremony.
All of these Traditions and more I will share with you in greater detail in the coming Blogs.
It’s not too early to begin thinking about 11-11-11 Weddings.
In fact this is a perfect time to book. Especially if you want the 11 a.m. time slot.
We have several packages we are creating for that day and three great Wedding Sites picked out. Red Rock Crossing, Huckabee Trailhead and Sweet Sugar Loaf at the Singing Rock. There are a limited number of Weddings at each location – another reason to plan ahead and reserve your spot and your package!
Each of these locations are breathtakingly beautiful and easily accessible.
I’ll outline the packages in future postings and post them on our website as well.
Many Vendors are charging more for their services that day and the Forestry will insist on shuttles for large Wedding parties so keep that in mind when budgeting for that special day.
We will make it as smooth and stress free and magical as possible for you and your Sedona Wedding.
11-11-11 promises to be a major portal, gateway and opening to a life filled with Love and Happiness – a fantastic day to get married and a magnificent day to get married in Sedona.
Sedona’s powerful magnetic field will intensify the Love and the Joy.
Early November is a lovely time in Sedona. The leaves are vibrant colors adding to the awesome beauty of the Red Rocks.
Stay tuned for those packages – they are coming soon.
Sedona Destination Weddings is honored to be a part of the Sedona Weddings of our Military Men and Women. We have officiated many Military Weddings.
We have special discount of 10% off our Serene Sedona and Sedona Memories Wedding Packages for active Military.
Call us today at 928 282-0993 to start planning your Sedona Wedding at our great Military Discount rates. We are proud to support our Troops and to help make your Sedona Wedding pure magic.
This photo is of a very ecstatic Ralph and Marcy on their Sedona Wedding Day last September.
Ralph and Marcy are highschool sweethearts with a great story. They went their own way in life and both got married to other people. It was Ralph’s ex-wife of 19 years who found Marcy on the internet and gave her contact info to Ralph!!
They reconnected and have been together ever since.
Ralph took great pains to arrange the perfect Sedona elopement.
He booked our Sedona Memories Package
We arranged the site permit and met him at the Back o’ Beyond Trailhead with a photographer, officiant and one witness. That’s when Ralph and Marcy realized they left their wedding rings back at the hotel.
Thinking quickly our witness fashioned two beautiful rings from some red string he found in his car. We all laughed so much at these new rings and yet when the time came to exchange rings and the strings were blessed and they tied them on each others fingers – those rings became a symbol of all they had been through to come to that moment. There were tears in all of our eyes as those string rings became more precious than gold.
Less really is more – you can tell by their Leap of Joy!
Superman and his Beloved Lille were very happy with their Sedona Wedding – I wanted to share with you their comment to yesterdays blog:
I still am in awe of how perfect our wedding was, from beginning to end. There’s really a powerful combo of having time the day before the wedding with Akal to bond with the earth, the vortexes and with our spirits. It sets the stage for the wedding, and a foundation, to build upon with the connections of our spirits and energy that unites a couple in marriage… in perfect harmony.
The comments are pouring in at my blog and Facebook about how beautiful, powerful, and love filled our wedding looks in the pictures, description and video. People are saying their eyes fill up with tears or they actually weep while watching it. Just think if they had been there with us that on that mountain smack dab in the middle of vibrant, powerful, breathtaking action that only being married in Sedona can bring. I can thank Patricia, our photographer, for her energetic, giggling ways that instinctively knows when to snap the moment as if it had been rehearsed a million times. She almost seemed like another Super Hero, “Spidey Girl”; being everywhere at once click….click… finding all the tender, humorous, and big screen drama of our made for TV movie like wedding. Pinch me!! Our wedding photographs are heirlooms.
Thank you, Rev. Iala and Akal for taking our love story and turning it into a cover of a romance novel. Part of me laughs at saying that last statement, and the other part knows we asked the Universe to give us the wedding of our dreams, and then the Universe delivered it to us wrapped in turquoise skies, rich red dirt, Raven filled vistas and a couple in tune with our needs, desires and spiritual longings. Our wedding kicked it, didn’t it?! Oh man, as in Superman and Lille Lane, it sure did!
On September 22, 2010 Superman married his Lois Lane or Miss Lille at airport Vortex. It was the Fall Equinox and a powerful day and a powerful Ceremony.
They chose our Sedona Song Wedding Package. It was a two day never to be forgotten event.
Lille and Superman went out onto the Vortexes with Akal and had a chance to really connect with the energies have a transformational experience. Together they chose the Wedding site that they both Superman and Lille resonated with.
The Wedding Day was very intense – everything from sunshine to hail!
I was not worried a bit. I knew that the Spirit of Sedona would shine on us all and that Airport would shelter us for as long as we needed. Sure enough the sun came out the minute we all arrived and we had exactly enough sun to get us through the entire ceremony and lots of photos after wards. Lille and Superman were truly blessed. The rain around us was another level of Blessing – a special anointing by the Divine and a great gift to the desert.
Lille tells the story best on her blog. And she’s made a lovely little video so I’ll let her take over from here.
Often a Wedding Ceremony blends a New Family. Grooms instantly become fathers and Bride’s become mothers. Sometimes the new family includes children from both sides.
It is a wonderful idea to include your children in your Ceremony. There are so many ways to do it. Including a child makes them feel a part of the new family, welcomed and valuable.
You may want to do a Candle Ceremony that includes a candle for the child. Or a sand Ceremony in which the children each have their own vessel of colored sand to add to the blended sand vessel.
Or you and your Beloved may choose to say a few words to the child. You can write your own vows to your new step-daughter or son. Make a promise to be a good and loving parent.
Alternatively, after you and your Spouse exchange rings you can present the child with a locket or bracelet also symbolizing their role in your new family.
Any or all of the above are wonderful ways of recognizing, including, welcoming and celebrating the presence of the child in your family.
The Sedona Tipi Temple is the most unique Wedding Location you will find.
In the shadow of Thunder Mountain this beautiful Tipi Temple is large enough for a party of approx. 20 people. The circle shape echoes the circle of your rings and your eternal love. Inside the Tipi Rises high over your head and has the feeling of a pyramid. The acoustics are amazing and the interior walls are the same magenta hue of the local claret cup cactus flowers. The walls themselves have been filled with crystals during construction which amplifies the energy of this spot.
The Tipi Temple is a wonderful location for our Shamanic Wedding package or at the very least some drumming and singing!!
You can learn more about the Tipi temple at our Tipi Temple Package page.
A Sedona Tipi Temple Wedding is very Sacred and very private. This is a beautiful jewel hidden in the heart of the Red Rocks.
Tlaquepaque is a quaint, old Mexican style shopping mall right on Oak Creek. There are cobble stoned courtyards and a lovely little chapel for your Ceremony. For more info on the Chapel see our Sedona Chapels Package
Even if you go for a Ceremony out on the Red Rocks this little jewel is a great place for a photo session either before or after your Ceremony.
There’s plenty of parking, easy walking access for everyone and an old world charm that is remarkable and uniquely southwestern.
Bell Rock is a well known Sedona Monument. It has great views of the valley in front of it with Courthouse Rock beside it and Twin Buttes and Cathedral in the distance. This site has very electric and powerful energy.
Bell Rock is a male Vortex. We call it Pa Bell because it gives you a direct line to the Creator. It is a great place to send up your prayers and intentions for your Marriage. It acts like a giant transmitter. Your vows and commitments to each other will be definitely heard and noted by the Divine.
There is plenty of parking and it is accessible with a moderate 10 minute hike.
Airport Vortex is one of my all time favorite places on the planet. This Vortex has such powerful and transformational energy. This is an electric/magnetic Vortex. That means it is balanced between male and female. The above Wedding was part of our Sedona Song Package
This is a two day event. On day one the bride and groom went on a powerful Vortex Tour with our Shaman, Akal. He took them out to many of the Weddings sites, helped them access the energies and prepared them for their Wedding Day. On this tour the Bride and Groom have an opportunity to really feel which site they both resonate with. This couple chose Airport Vortex and so the next day their lovely, intimate Wedding was held on Airport. I’ll post more about this Ceremony on a later date.
Airport is perfect for small weddings, parking is very limited and the access path can be daunting to Wedding guests. The photo ops are incredible. On your hike in you have sweeping views of all of West Sedona including Cockscomb, Bear Mountain, Thunder Mountain, Coffeepot, Wilson Mountain and Shiprock. At the Wedding Site you have views of Twin Buttes, Lee Mountain, Courthouse, Bell Rock and Cathedral.
Lover’s Knoll is just off a windy mountain road with world class views. There have been many car commercials filmed on this road. Spreading before you are Twin Buttes, Schnebley Hill, Lee Mountain, Courthouse Butte and Cathedral.
Sunset is the optimum time at this site and Sunset on a full Moon night cannot be beat anywhere on Planet Earth. Indescribable beauty, lighting and energy, a Wedding here on the Full Moon would be legendary.
It’s got easy access and ample parking – an unbeatable choice – as I said on any sunset night and on a Full Moon Sunset it becomes transcendent.
Huckabee is the start of a trail head a short way up Schnebley Hill.
I found this lovely spot that is a natural Ampitheater surrounded by gorgeous Red Rock formations and an incredible Vista of all of Sedona spreading out before you.
Imagine your Ceremony in the shade of a twisted Vortex Juniper on a Red Rock platform with the Red Monoliths of Schnebley Hill rising up above
you.
There are a lot of pros to this site. Can reach this site with any kind of vehicle so no need for the expense of renting jeeps. Very easy access for all ages. Lots of parking. Even a bathroom/change room at the trail head. Quiet and secluded. A very memorable and unique location for your Sedona Wedding.
You can also benefit from the powerful and uplifting Vortex Energy of this amazing Red Rock Butte.
Isis Overlook is a real hidden gem. It is a sweet little Red Rock knoll with views that sweep around you in a 360 degree span of unparalleled beauty. To the West is Cockscomb and Doe Mesa rolling into Bear Mountain and Boynton canyon then comes the great pillars of Isis temple Or Isis Rock then all the Secret canyon Wilderness and Brim’s Mesa and then the back end of Thunder Mountain. it is right in the center of an amphitheater of Red Rock Glory.
Access is over a bumpy dirt road. This can be done with a small party but you will have so much more fun accessing this site on the back of a jeep. This is a real adventure setting. It is still not far to go in a regular car and there is some parking. Though without jeeps this is a site for small wedding parties or elopements.
You really get a sense of the majesty of nature and the indescribable beauty and power of Sedona at Isis Overlook.
Magic Vista is one of those hidden treasures. I have dubbed it ‘Magic” because it truly is a magical little spot. The views are unbeatable.
You are right in the shadow and the heart centered energy of SugarLoaf, Thunder Mountain rises above you with Coffee Pot (or Horus Rock). As you turn you have a magnificent 360 degree view. From Horus Rock your eye comes to Soldier’s Pass and Brim’s Mesa (called Brim because an original settler kept his prize bull – Brim up there grazing) and then Wilson Mountain and Shiprock and then Schnebley Hill and around to the Twin Buttes and Airport Vortex!
I just thought of another great reason to call it ‘Magic Vista’. Walt Disney lived in Sedona for awhile and many of the whimsical street names were given by him. He was inspired by Sedona and at Disney Land he made his focal piece “Magic Mountain” which was modeled after Thunder Mountain!
This hidden little gem is the absolute easiest access Wedding Site in all of Sedona. No long hike, no climb. just pull up, park walk a few hundred feet on a flat well kept trail and you are there. The ideal times at this location are Sunset and anytime on weekends.
Magic Vista is a personal favorite of mine because I love the energy of Sugar Loaf – it is the heart Center of Sedona and the Americas and that’s some powerful energy to have in your Wedding Ceremony and a great way to begin your married life together.
Back O’ Beyond is a fabulous spot for a Wedding. You are right on a Red Rock platform on the side of Cathedral Rock – Cathedral’s great spires rise behind you. There are breathtaking Vistas of Bell Rock, Courthouse and Twin Buttes.
This is another magnetic Vortex – I call this the ‘Womb with a View’. Very nurturing, calming and loving energy.
This site is approached with a 7 minute moderate climb. Not good for Grandma but great for small parties and elopements.
The trees here grow up in spirals in response to the energy. This is a breathtaking and romantic and definitely unforgettable Sedona Wedding site. It is one of the reasons that Sedona is a great Destination Wedding location.
Sedona has so many awesome and breathtakingly beautiful Wedding Sites.
Some are easily accessible while others are accessed by a short hike, a bit of a climb or even a Jeep ride!
Wherever you are the Red Rocks are magnificent and the Vistas provide a fabulous backdrop for your Wedding Ceremony.
The most popular Wedding Site by far is Red Rock Crossing. This is located right on Oak Creek with a magnificent view of Cathedral Rock. In fact this is the second most photographed location in Arizona after the Grand Canyon.
Red Rock Crossing is one of Sedona’s Vortexes. This is a magnetic Vortex. The energy here is very feminine and nurturing. It is a wonderful spot to plant the seeds of a new marriage.
This is the easiest access location. Even grandma and grandpa can come. We have had many Weddings here with guests in wheelchairs.
My favorite time of the day here is early morning – Wedding parties before 11 a.m. can be assured of parking. There will be very few people – even in the summer time and weekends and the light is other worldly. At that time of the day we can even capture Cathedral reflected in the waters of Oak Creek.
This is such a popular location that on 10-10-10 there were 35 Weddings at Red Rock Crossing. Sedona Destination Weddings performed 7 of them.
There are other sites equally beautiful and romantic but less well known and more off the beaten track. I plan to share them with you in future blogs.
Blessings
Iala
10-10-10 was a fabulous day!!
Eight Weddings. The sun was shining, the sky was blue, the temperature was perfect. Sedona was the ultimate place to have a 10-10-10 wedding.
I heard on the news that 30,000 couples got married on that day!! talk about popular. 35 of those couples got married at Red Rock Crossing here in Sedona. Red Rock Crossing was the most popular location and 7 of our Weddings took place there.
At one point my husband was on one side of the Creek marrying a couple, I was on the other and there were two Weddings further along the creek above me.
Talk about a day filled with JOY.
All of our Bride’s were beautiful and our grooms dashing. I will post some pictures soon.
Patricia our photographer was kept busy snapping pictures all day. Akal played the flute at one wedding, was the Shamanic Officiant at another. Then he officiated at three others. I officiated 5 of the weddings. All of us kept getting higher and higher and more and more joy filled.
It really was a special day of deepening Unity.
May the Divine Bless all of the Couples married on 10-10-10
Spanish Wedding Officiant
¡Estamos muy emocionados de anunciar que ya estamos oficiando bodas en español!
La Reverenda Libia (Libby) Taylor tiene algunas ceremonias muy hermosas en español.
Ahora ya es posible celebrar una boda con el panorama grandioso de las montañas rocosas completamente en español.
Ustedes apreciaran a la Reverenda Libby. Ella es originalmente del Ecuador y es una mujer muy amorosa y cálida.
Su energía será una contribución maravillosa en vuestro día tan especial.
También tenemos una nueva página en la web completamente en español la cual dirige
todas vuestras preguntas y detalla como adquirir vuestra licencia matrimonial, las ceremonias que proveemos,
la magia de Sedona, y un pequeño perfil de la Reverenda Libby.
Chéqueenlo: www.sedonadestinationweddings.com/spanish-weddings-in-sedona.html
Bendiciones,
Rev. Iala
We are very excited to announce that we now are offering Weddings or Bodas in Spanish – en Espanol!
La Rev Libby Taylor has prepared some very lovely Spanish language ceremonies. It is now possible to have an unforgettable Sedona Wedding on the breathtaking Red Rocks completely in Spanish.
You will love La Rev Libby. She is originally from Ecuador and is a warm and loving woman. Her energy will be a wonderful contribution to your special day.
We also have a new page on our site completely in Spanish answering all of your questions and detailing how to get a marriage license, the Ceremonies we provide, the magic of Sedona and a short bio on La Rev Libby.
Check it out at: www.sedonadestinationweddings.com/spanish-weddings-in-sedona.html
Blessings
Rev Iala
The countdown is on for our 10-10-10 Weddings. People began booking that day last October. It has proven to be the most popular day for Weddings that we and all of Sedona have ever had.
I just read this about the 10-10-10:
What is 10-10-10?
The number 10 represents Rebirth. The triple 10-10-10 of Oct. 10, 2010. Brings in the triggers of completion of jouneys, returns to origins, perfection, fulfillment, the return to unity, and closure for those of us ready (after the wild past 10 months of 2010) to move through another 3D triple Initiatic Doorway or portal/gate and move up another important energy stair step during fall 2010. I suspect that on the immediate other side of the 10-10-10 portal/gate/stair step, we’re going to feel-for a while-much like we did during the very strange Zero Zone phase of December 2009; being deep within another stage of dying, transitioning, and being reborn into a very new level of being. (10 = 0 and 1 energies but at a higher octave of unity.
The part about perfection and the return to Unity might explain why so many couples have been drawn to this day for their Wedding.
Sedona Destination Weddings will be officiating 8 weddings on that day.
We begin at 10 in the morning with Tina and Roger and a powerful Shamanic Ceremony at Red Rock Crossing.
It promises to be a day of Great Celebration and Joy and we get to bask in the love until Sunset!!
I’ll keep you posted on all the high lights of the day.
Blessings
Rev Iala
Fall is a very special time in Sedona. The weather is perfect with temperatures in the low 80′s and the bluest skies you have ever seen.
Sedona’s Red Rocks stand out crisp and clear in this autumn light. A Sedona Wedding in the autumn is truly magical. Any time of the day is special. Early mornings have a glow that feels other worldly. Sunsets are full of reds and golds and magenta.
The sun is kind and gentle in the fall here in the high desert. All of our Fall Bride’s shine with an inner and a very serene outer light.
Fall is a very special time in Sedona. The weather is perfect with temperatures in the low 80′s and the bluest skies you have ever seen.
Sedona’s Red Rocks stand out crisp and clear in this autumn light. A Sedona Wedding in the autumn is truly magical. Any time of the day is special. Early mornings have a glow that feels other worldly. Sunsets are full of reds and golds and magenta.
The sun is kind and gentle in the fall here in the high desert. All of our Fall Bride’s shine with an inner and a very serene outer light.
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