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!
A Happy Bride
Madonna Rock
Madonna Rock is one of Sedona’s incredible Land marks.
Madonna Rock is located at the far side of Twin Buttes. She is enfolded by the Pinnacles known as The Three Sisters or the Nuns.
She watches over the Chapel built on the rocks. Madonna holds her Beloved Child and looks out over a wondrous Landscape that includes Bell Rock, Court House Butte, and Cathedral Rock. Her beauty is breathtaking.
Madonna rises up over Chapel Trail. This is one of our very favorite Wedding Sites. It is a large Red Rock Platform under Madonna reached by a 15 minute moderate Hike. The area is a powerfully magnetic and feminine Vortex. A perfect spot to nurture your Nuptials.
Sedona Bride
Red Rock Crossing is a beautiful Wedding location in the early morning hours. The place is quiet – you might have some ducks swim by or a heron fly overhead – and once a horse came down to the water to drink.
Cathedral Rock at Red Rock crossing is the second most photographed spot in Arizona after the Grand Canyon. The morning hours here hold a special charm. Calm, quiet deserted. This is when Sedona’s magic really shines.
Cathedral stands tall and majestic above you and shimmers in the water below you.
Our beautiful Sedona Bride seems to be in Bliss. Soaking up the morning, the sun, the beauty and the love on her special day.
Sedona Wedding Sites – Bell Rock
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.
Sedona Wedding Sites – Airport Vortex
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.
Wedding Sites – Back O’ Beyond
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.
Wedding Sites – Red Rock Crossing
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 Update
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