Kate Nichols, Wedding Officiant

09/07/2025

I Legalize Love. Fort Myers Beach and surrounding communities:

119 likes, 5 comments. “I Legalize Love”

09/06/2023

Let's get hitched on the Sand!

09/09/2018

05/05/2018

Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour

Wallace Stevens, 1879 - 1955

Light the first light of evening, as in a room
In which we rest and, for small reason, think
The world imagined is the ultimate good.

This is, therefore, the intensest rendezvous.
It is in that thought that we collect ourselves,
Out of all the indifferences, into one thing:

Within a single thing, a single shawl
Wrapped tightly round us, since we are poor, a warmth,
A light, a power, the miraculous influence.

Here, now, we forget each other and ourselves.
We feel the obscurity of an order, a whole,
A knowledge, that which arranged the rendezvous.

Within its vital boundary, in the mind.
We say God and the imagination are one...
How high that highest candle lights the dark.

Out of this same light, out of the central mind,
We make a dwelling in the evening air,
In which being there together is enough.

05/05/2018

10/29/2017

Winter is coming. Thinking of a romantic winter wedding on a Florida beach or garden or field?

06/05/2017

This is a happy job! Each wedding ceremony is unique. One of my most memorable was actually a renewal ceremony. The husband had called me a week before the event. He and his wife along with their two young children and his sister-in-law and brother-in-law were planning a trip to Fort Myers Beach. He wanted to surprise his wife with a Renewal Ceremony for their 10th Anniversary. I arranged to meet him at a certain access point on the beach a half hour before sunset. He was there waiting for me, smiling nervously. He pointed out his wife in the distance. She was playing with one of the children in the sand, attired in a swimsuit and sarong. We walked over. "Honey," he said to her. She looked up and then stood up when she saw me. "Hello." she said, guardedly, confused as to what her husband was doing hanging out with a strange woman. "This is Kate," he explained. "She is going to marry us again, that is, if you say Yes." The girl was stunned. Then, very softly, she said "Yes." Then, she began to cry. The tears continued through much of the ceremony, one of the most beautiful ones that I have ever performed.