It’s a 21st-century love story. No star-crossed lovers. No childhood sweethearts. No love at first sight.
It all started with a simple “hello.”
Following the end of their own long-term relationships, Jason and Michael suddenly found themselves navigating the online dating world. While they insist they can’t recall who made the first move, that initial “hello” evolved into weeks of conversation via text until they decided to meet in person.
It was St. Patrick’s Day – March 17, 2014, and it turned out to be one very lucky day. That first date saw Jason and Michael heading to Dollarama in search of Emerald City realness for a production of “The Wizard of Oz” Michael was producing at his school. “I often joke that we fell in love in aisle 6,” says Jason. Michael insists it was aisle 7.
It didn’t take long for Michael and Jason’s romance to flourish. They took time getting to know each other, learning from the mistakes made in previous relationships, spending a lot of time in each other’s company, laughing a lot, supporting one another other, meeting each other’s families, and building a strong foundation for a potential future together.
In December 2015, Michael proposed to Jason during the intermission of a performance of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera at the Princess of Wales Theatre in Toronto. After some skillful maneuvering, Michael presented Jason with an augmented theatre program that included their individual bios. With ring and rose in hand, he asked Jason to share “one love, one lifetime” with him as the chandelier came crashing down.
“Hey, we’re both theatrical,” argues Michael. “It was the perfect moment to pop the question.”
Jason and Michael were married in a civil ceremony at Toronto’s City Hall on June 30, 2016. On August 27, 2016, in the company of family and close friends,
Jason and Michael exchanged their vows at St. Peter’s Erindale Anglican Church.
Over the last five years of their marriage, Jason and Michael have weathered many a storm together. Career changes, ailing parents, and the passing of Jason’s dad have moved them to reaffirm their commitment to one another “through better or worse, in sickness and in health.” In the first five years of their marriage, Jason and Michael have worked hard to develop themselves individually and as a couple.
They’ve done their share of traveling, bought a home in the suburbs, rekindled old friendships, and nurtured new ones.
Jason and Michael have taken the next exciting step on their journey together as
“The Marry Men.”
First Meeting
March 17, 2014
Engagement
December 16, 2015
Wedding
June 30, 2016
Vows
August 27, 2016
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MICHAEL ANDREW
Michael has worked as an educator in the public and private school systems, as a broadcast journalist, writer, and producer. He also has an extensive background in the performing arts and theatre production.
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JASON CHELLEW
Jason has had a successful career as an event coordinator, wedding planner, and venue administrator. He also has an extensive background in theatre performance and television production.
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OUR PHILOSOPHY
As ordained ministers with the Canadian International Metaphysical Ministry (CIMM), Jason and Michael are licensed religious officiants with The Province of Ontario.
We are all-inclusive, 2SLGBTQIA+ and inter-faith friendly.
Jason and Michael are also firm believers in working together with you before, during, and after your ceremony. This is why our individual ministries are so important to us.
WHAT IS METAPHYSICAL SPIRITUALITY?
“My definition of metaphysics would be the search for absolute reality. The search for: Who am I? What am I? Where have I been? Where am I going? What is the relationship of man, mind, and the Universe? If you can answer those questions, you can find your place in life. If you can’t, then it doesn’t matter, you’re just a wanderer.”
— Dr. Paul Leon Masters
We are all wanderers on different journeys that will, ultimately, lead us to the same destination.
Life itself is a journey filled with lessons, hardships, heartaches, joys, and celebrations.
That is our purpose in life: to define who we are, to decide where it is we want to be going, to determine the path or paths we want to take to get there,
to devote the time and energy required of us in our chosen practice, and to dedicate ourselves to successfully reaching our destination.
The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation.
“You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek therefore,
not to find out Who You Are, but seek to determine Who You Want to Be.”
― Neale Donald Walsch
The meaning of life, therefore, is determined by whatever meaning we give it.
“Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.”
― Marianne Williamson
As metaphysical ministers and students of metaphysical spirituality, our meaning lies in recognizing that there are many paths to truth, higher consciousness, spiritual reality, and to God.
This includes the mystical and philosophical, health and wellness, yoga, meditation, aromatherapy, spiritual healing, and other practices that are associated with the world of metaphysical spirituality.
Metaphysics is about bringing spirituality into our daily lives and realizing our greater purpose and using our many gifts and intuition to recognize where our guidance comes from.
Metaphysics is an innate form of spirituality, recognizing that all life and all energy is interconnected, interdependent, and comes from one Divine source.
Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy that studies the ultimate nature of existence, reality, and experience without being bound to any one theological doctrine or dogma.
In fact, metaphysics includes and honours all religions but transcends them all.