Well, I'm home, and I'm caught back up with laundry and email and snail mail and having my ankles attacked by my cat. (I am not yet caught up on weeding my garden, but on the other hand, will I ever be? Unlikely.) We had a good trip, despite road construction, and it was a wonderful priviledge to see two of my friends marry two very good men. Yes, it was a double. The sisters had two consecutive ceremonies. I was in the first, and watched the second. Both, though different, were a beautiful testament to the commitments that were made. I especially liked the use of Ruth's words, "thy people shall be my people", in both brides' vows.
I did not have the hiccups, neither did I drop my bouquet, even when picking up the hymn book and turning to the paperclipped page during the ceremony. I didn't cry during the ceremony, either, but I did tear up during one of the rehearsals. The bride and I have been friends for the last eight years, and very close for the last five, so this is quite a change.
For the first time ever, I sang "O Come, All Ye Faithful" during a wedding service. Also for the first time, there were hymn requests taken, and a blond joke from the father of the groom at the request of the bride. See, when the poor minister, doing his first double wedding in twenty some years, mislays the second set of vows you do what you can. My favorite part of the glitch was the bride and groom telling their engagement story. Neither one of them was fazed a bit by the delay, and they even enjoyed the unplanned aspects of their ceremony! The bridesmaids soldiered on through the suddenly longer ceremony in what seemed like 80 degree heat, although they ditched their shawls around the time the vows were discovered missing.
Anyway, it was a great wedding, we made it home safely, and it is good to be back.
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Welcome home :) Thanks for the update - weddings are beautiful aren't they? The two you went to sound especially lovely.
Welcome back, Naddy. (Oh, and by the way, I'm glad you didn't get the hiccups!)
although they ditched their shawls around the time the vows were discovered missing.
How are they missing if they are discovered? It's like the preacher who says, "As I look out over the congregation today and see all the people who are missing ..."
How are they missing if they are discovered? It's like the preacher who says, "As I look out over the congregation today and see all the people who are missing ..."
Obviously, JFC is not REALLY a poet. Can't he see the implied meaning of what you said?
"around the time the vows were discovered missing" quite clearly means, "around the time the fact that the vows were missing was discovered". The thing that was discovered was the fact.
I guess Natty and I are just better at taking dominion.
Welcome home, Natalie. I am glad you didn't hiccup or cry, but since it was 80ยบ you must have been hot.
"Obviously, JFC is not REALLY a poet. Can't he see the implied meaning of what you said?"
I'm positive that he knew what the intended meaning was. However he might have been just playing on words.
PS Naddy, is this blog located 2hrs west of where you live as the post time shows it.
Well I should say only shows the time difference when I preview a post.
I'm positive that he knew what the intended meaning was. However he might have been just playing on words.
Oh silly Chocolatier... when you learn to discern sarcasm on the internet, then you will truly receive your Blogger Wings of Tin. =o)
Our Polyphonic Poet I was dubbed
And not by myself, so named, I might add,
So when I, by a Frisian teen, am snubbed,
I'll trust, instead, my dubber and be glad!
*applauds JFC*
Good job at taking dominion... I'm not sure dubber was really word! You learn so much when using the internet.
*applauds JFC*
* bows *
dub'ber
n. One who taps lightly on the shoulder by way of conferring knighthood.
NOTE: or in this case, "Troubadour-hood"
Indeed, it is a word! You learn something new every day!
Han: Blogger wings of tin? I want some! I'm great with sarcasm, it's my bread and water!
Thanks, Chiefbiscuit. It is good to be back. :-)
Thanks, JFC.
Hi, Willena! :-) I'm glad to hear that you enjoy Dorothy Sayers; too few people have read her mysteries.
Han- thank you for your moral support.
Daisy- thanks! And no, I wasn't really hot... plus it was a dry heat. :-)
Mybelovedismine- As you know QUITE well, Wuthering Heights is most definitely not one of the books I especially love. :-) Perhaps I should change that to "most of my books... ;-)
Chocolatier- Of course he knew. :-)
Han- Blogger Wings of Tin? Tell me more! :-D This has the ring of being the big new fashion accessory of the blogging world!
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