Bondingoo · The yearly relationship ritual

I see you.
You see me.
That is Bonding.

Some call it marriage. We call it Bondingoo: the conscious decision to truly see each other. One yes is the beginning. Yes again and again is Bonding.

Choose your first pearl → How it works ↓

A relationship is never a given.

Bondingoo is a space for couples who are doing well together and want to nurture that consciously, year after year. More in the journal: Why we should choose each other anew every year.

Bonding is what it is about. Bondingoo is the name that grew out of it.

The Path

Three steps. Anew every year.

Only two things are binding: the first pearl and the year. Everything else is up to you.

1
Decision

The first pearl.

One of you designs it for the other: size, material, finish and a word out of 25 that carries your first year. A card delivers the word and the access for both of you.

Depending on configurationwith a certified laboratory-grown diamond
2
Keeping

Your Bonding year.

Four nudges through the year: two conversations with your personal celebrant (60 minutes each) and two task blocks in between. You set goals and wishes, discover your love languages and follow a story that runs through your word. All in your Bondingoo login.

€900per year · 2 conversations · 2 task blocks
3
Wearing

The next pearl.

At the end of the year you take stock: what have you achieved, which wishes have come true? Then you choose the word for the next year together. The pearl comes home in your jewellery box, and its certificate lands in your Bondingoo History.

Depending on configurationdecided anew every year
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Optional

If you want to celebrate.

At the end of the year you can celebrate your yes. You decide how much of it you want. Bondingoo can culminate in it, but does not have to.

  • Your annual wedding speech · €1,000Your celebrant writes it from your conversations and one further 90-minute conversation. You receive it as text and can read it to each other yourselves.
  • Delivering the speech · €600 plus travel costsYour celebrant prepares, coordinates with musicians and other participants, delivers the speech at your favourite place or at your celebration and follows up afterwards. Your wedding planner organises location, photography and programme.

Or start with a ceremony.

For couples who want to celebrate their yes first: a wedding conversation of 2.5 hours with your celebrant plus an individual 30-minute conversation each. From it comes a speech from your story, delivered in a ceremony at your place. One of you hands over the first pearl, and the word of your first year is revealed in the speech. Then your Bonding year begins, with its two conversations and two task blocks.

Ceremony start · €2,900including your first Bonding year · plus first pearl (depending on configuration) and travel costs

Location, photography and programme via your wedding planner.

The year

Four nudges. Two conversations.

You do not have to work on your relationship every day. Four times a year we remind you to look at each other.

01 · TASKS

Seeing

Discover love languages, formulate wishes, draft goals. Each on your own.

02 · CONVERSATION

Showing

60 minutes with your celebrant. You compare your answers and set your goals together.

03 · TASKS

Carrying

Compass check at mid-year. Where do you stand? Plus tasks for everyday life.

04 · CONVERSATION

Choosing

60 minutes of review. What has grown and which word carries the next year?

Every conversation begins with a minute of eye contact. I see you. You see me. No coaching and no therapy, but a frame that invites you to look.

The Ritual

What you wear through the year

Every year one pearl, each with a certified laboratory-grown diamond, threaded onto a band that one of you wears. After a few years it is no longer a necklace, but your story.

A band that grows with every year

A different way to tell this story →

A thought on this

Christmas, a birthday, an ordinary Tuesday: the first Bondingoo pearl is not an object you give away, but the beginning of something that stays.

Some things are too important to decide only once.

Bondingoo turns that decision into a ritual.

Choose your first pearl →
BONDINGOO

A ritual against taking each other for granted.