Hear Ye, Hear Ye!
by V.E. on January 20th, 2006
filed under entertainment, favorite, ladyamedeus, lgbt, school
Our wedding went well! There was quite a bit of photography during and afterward, and we performed to a packed house. Thanks and congratulations to the lovely wedding party! Special thanks to Students for Marriage Equality, for sponsoring this event, and Josh (SME’s VP), for holding it all together when I started freaking out.
Something You Should Know
About the Ceremony: During the eighteenth century, weddings were primarily arranged for the benefit of the families involved rather than the couple being married. The marriage contract was between the groom and the father of the bride; it was they who signed the contract, not the bride and groom. Essentially, the father of the bride and the groom created a business contract for transfer of ownership of goods–the bride and her dowry–with the understanding that the bride’s father would no longer care for her and the groom would take over those responsibilities.
About the Dress: Why did I wear black to a wedding? Why wasn’t the bride’s dress white? Why doesn’t anyone match? Okay, you’ve got to remember that people during the eighteenth century didn’t have tailors on hand to make everything “just perfect” or to make the dresses/suits complementary to one another. The basic rule was: Wear your absolute best clothing, whatever that may be. Most people didn’t have the money (or the resources) to buy all new clothing just for their wedding; the wedding dress was the kind of thing that, after her wedding day, a woman would put away for safekeeping until another wedding (at which she was not the bride), etc. As for the black/white dress thing… If a woman’s very best was in all black (appropriate for a widow or an elderly lady), then she wore all black to the important events in her life. The “white = pure” concept didn’t really come into fashion in Europe or the United States until the late nineteenth century, so there was no stigma during the eighteenth century about wearing red, blue, green, or in this case, pink, on one’s wedding day.
The Wedding Party, after the ceremony.
First row, left to right: Viannah (bridesmaid), Sir Thomas Pennington (father of the bride), Augusto (groomsman), Pauline (sister of the groom), Officiating Minister (judge)
Second row, left to right: Nicholas (groomsman), Mrs. Genevieve [Pennington] Monroe (bride), Mr. James Monroe (groom), Elizabeth (bridesmaid)
Elizabeth (bridesmaid) and Miss Genevieve Pennington, before the ceremony.
The ceremony in progress.
Real Names
if not listed here, real name was used in the performance.
Sir Thomas Pennington = Colin
Augusto = Pedro
Officiating Minister = Josh
Mrs. Genevieve [Pennington] Monroe = Jessyka
Mr. James Monroe = Louis
Snowrists
by V.E. on January 20th, 2006
filed under beauty, ladyamedeus
Woman: My husband has this hierarchy of terrible things that can happen to a person, and you wanna know what tops off his list? According to him, the number one most horrible thing that can ever happen to a person is getting snow on your wrists.
–Office, 66th & York (http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/004191.html)
We are more concerned about the meaning of dreams than about things we see when awake.
–Diogenes, “The Little Zen Companion” by David Schiller
You have to be ready to jump when the rope swings under your feet.
–”Really Important Stuff My Kids Have Taught Me” by Cynthia Copeland Lewis
