All American Pagan Family: A Handfasting

Now that we were engaged, the issue became "How do we find a Wiccan priest/priestess to handfast us, in the Bible belt?" The answer, was quite literally, under my husbands nose. My husband was a waiter at Waffle House, and it turns out one of his regular customers was a Wiccan Priest. His name was Dr. Possum, and he had his own Wiccan store behind his house. (http://drpossumshexhouse.com/index.html) We had no idea that the Wiccan community was more than just us! Him and his wife opened up a whole new world for us, in that we realized we weren't the only Wiccans living in the Bible Belt.

We were married via Wiccan handfasting on June 19th 2010. We tried to have it as close to the summer solstice as possible. Most of my family attended (except I did not invite my intolerant grandfather), and it was medieval themed. The priest and the priestess are both ordained Wiccan ministers, so it was nice and legal.