For U Ceremonies

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Greetings and Congratulations! 

Let me introduce myself, Donna Kay, a Ordained and Confirmed Pastoral Care Chaplain at a local hospital, and a Licensed Notary.

I have officiated at wedding ceremonies for the past five years, at spiritual, religious, secular and traditional weddings.  Weddings at locations ranging from lavish resorts to family residences, on Florida's pristine beaches, in courtyards and backyards and all over the beautiful surroundings of Tampa Bay.  From eloquent and formal ceremonies, to formal on the beach in our bare feet, with many attendants  including a few four legged  family members and a few wedding when it has been just the three of us.   I promise to help you create an unforgettable ceremony just for YOU.

 It’s a lot of fun working with great couples and making them very happy about one of the most important days in their lives. My objective is to provide them with exactly what they want on several levels ranging from civil, to traditional, to contemporary or religious.  The way this happens is by listening to their hearts and making that become reality.  I am very blessed to help create something beautiful, romantic and meaningful that will be remembered by couples and those they love for years to come.

                                     Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.   William Shakespeare

For U Ceremonies       Wedding Officiant       Donna Cothron


We can do no great things;  only small things with great love.

 ~ Mother Teresa ~
                                                                                    


"It was once said, 'Happiness sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.'

Perhaps this is the way love arrives. 

It happens when you didn’t realize you had left your heart wide open.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. 

Today you made a promise and spoke words of commitment. 

“To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.”  May you have the opportunity to see that shared sorrows and challenges become less burdensome and that shared joys and triumphs become more exhilarating. 

What more can we hope for than to bond with a partner who will share our love and our dreams.

Everyone gathered here is pleased and honored to have shared these significant moments with the two of you.  Every blessing and good wish goes with you as you embarked on your new life together as husband and wife. 

May all the memories of this special occasion be pressed into the hearts, minds and souls of all present.


Weddings on the Beautiful Gulf Beaches


The Wedding Ceremony
A fusion of souls…
Two people can share a beautiful relationship together
for many years and remain just that – two people.
A wedding changes all this. The wedding is not just a ceremony –
it actually unites the couple into one being.
How by introducing a third element
into the relationship that is bigger than both of them –
a Divine element.
Through the spiritual traditions performed we create
a bond that is not defined by human limitation,

but rather has the eternity of the Divine.
                                                                                                             

    “What therefore God has joined togetherlet no man separate."

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Readings from the Bible

Song of Solomon 2:10-13
My beloved responded and said to me, Arise, my darling, my beautiful one,
And come along.  'For behold, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone.  'The flowers have already appeared in the land; The time has arrived for pruning the vines, And the voice of the turtledove has been heard in our land.
'The fig tree has ripened its figs, And the vines in blossom have given forth their fragrance. Arise, my darling, my beautiful one, And come along!'

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12
Two are better than one because they have a good return for their labor. For if either of them falls, the one will lift up his companion. But woe to the one who falls when there is not another to lift him up. Furthermore, if two lie down together they keep warm, but how can one be warm alone? And if one can overpower him who is alone, two can resist him. A cord of three strands is not quickly torn apart.

Ruth 1:16-17
But Ruth said, "Do not urge me to leave you or turn back from following you; for where you go, I will go, and where you lodge, I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God, my God. "Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. Thus may the LORD do to me, and worse, if anything but death parts you and me."

I Corinthians 13:1-13
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, and always perseveres.
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.



Marriage is an act of faith and a personal commitment as well as a moral and physical union between the parties. Marriage has been described as the best and most important relationship that can exist between two human beings; the construction of their love and trust into a single growing energy of spiritual life, it is a moral commitment that requires and deserves daily attention since no earthly happiness exceeds that of a reciprocal satisfaction in the conjugal state. Marriage should be a life-long consecration to the ideal of loving kindness, backed with the will to make it last.

Matrimony symbolizes the ultimate intimacy between a man and a woman; yet this closeness should not diminish but strengthen the individuality of each partner. A marriage that lasts is one that always has a little more to grow.

Now you will feel no rain, for each of you will be shelter to the other.
Now you will feel no cold, for each of you will be warmth to the other.
Now you will feel no loneliness, for each of you will be a companion to the other.
Now you are two bodies, but there is only one life before you.
Go now to your dwelling place, to enter the days of your life together.
And may your days be good, and long upon the earth.

Now may you depart in peace,  May your love cast out small fears,
May your hope endure.  May your faith in each other  and in this radiant universe in  which the mystery of love happens grow and flourish.
Amen.