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[dorchadas]

On Saturday, I went to veryroundbird and faypire's wedding!

It was at Elawa Farm in Lake Forest, a ways north, so I got a Lyft with mutantur starting from my apartment and picking him up on the way. I was wearing a black three-piece suit and black shirt, with a bit of purple on my tie, and he was wearing a light tan suit with a blue shirt and a blue-and-yellow-and-grey tie, so when he got in, he joked that he had expected we'd look like an angel and a demon on their way somewhere. I replied that we were doing a closet Good Omens cosplay, and thus we traveled to the wedding site.

After some slight confusion when we arrived--everyone was inside in the dancing area, so no one was visible on either side of the building when we looked for them--people filed out and took their seats to wait for the ceremony, and I got a pretty good view:

The chuppah was especially beautiful.

The musicians played for half an hour while I chatted with the people around me, mostly mutantur and liszante, and other than the cover of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah," which is, uh, not a romantic song, I really liked the string duet. They fit especially well when the brides came out and took their place under the chuppah, and the ceremony began exactly on time.

I've never been to a particularly long wedding and this wasn't an exception. There was a brief section where the rabbi spoke at the beginning, a couple readings, the rabbi recited a slightly-modified version of the sheva brachot, and then he read letters that veryroundbird and faypire had each written about each other, the most memorable part of of which to me was where veryroundbird said she loved faypire "more than the roundest, softest bird," which is a great deal indeed. Then they recited their vows--faypire in Hebrew and English, veryroundbird in English--and they were wife and wife!

I did not get a good picture of the ceremony itself, but I did get a picture of the wedding party later as we were all enjoying appetizers:

Awww.

We ate salmon tartare, lamb with pesto, mini quiches, avocade dip on tiny rolls, and an enormous amount of cheese while drinking the wedding's signature drink, pink lemonade and rosé gin, and then we had dinner and then dancing. I did not do much dancing except for the last song--"Hit the Road Jack"--instead mostly chatting with people. I wasn't sat at the same table as mutantur or liszante, but I was sitting with drydem, and damaskrosechicago, as well as several people I didn't know, so I mostly listened to the conversation, but that's something I both have a lot of practice at and enjoy.

I didn't get much of a chance to talk to either of the brides, but it's a wedding. That happens at weddings. I got to wish them both mazel tov, at least.

After the last song, liszante told mutantur and me that she had rented a car but didn't have any passengers because goodbyeomelas had gotten sick at the last moment and hadn't been able to make it, so she offered to take us home. We gladly accepted her offer, said our goodbyes, and left after a lovely ceremony and a lovely evening. As veryroundbird said, the ritual is complete.

If you'd like to see more photos, check this hashtag on Instagram.

Comments

[tuberose]

(this is Degen, btw!)

I’m so glad you had a lovely time—but I especially felt the need to comment that, coincidence or not, having “Warbringers - Jaina” associated with my wedding is the best compliment possible.

Oh, and in defense of the string duo, I specifically requested “Hallelujah” because it was in their repertoire and I just really like Leonard Cohen.

[dorchadas]

I'm glad! I was thinking about what music to listen to when writing, and I only had to think a moment before I had the correct answer.

Oh, and in defense of the string duo, I specifically requested “Hallelujah” because it was in their repertoire and I just really like Leonard Cohen.

That's fair, then, and it is a great song! I wrote that because I'm used to people talking about how beautiful it is and not listening to lyrics like:

"You say I took the name in vain
I don't even know the name
But if I did, well really, what's it to you?

and thought that might have been the case.

[dreamkist]

Aw, they are lovely!