High church wedding

[dorchadas]

lisekatevans and afschifler got married! Congratulations!

I've actually never been to a full-on traditional Christian marriage ceremony before now. lisekatevans is a deacon at Fourth Presbyterian Church downtown, so that was where the ceremony was held, in a giant church sanctuary with a functioning pipe organ. There were hymns, there were blessings, the vows were the traditional vows ending in "as long as we both shall live", the pastor gave a sermon, it was all new and strange to me. It was a beautiful ceremony, though, with the organ music and the lovely architecture of what was basically an actual cathedral, and a very long aisle for the wedding party to walk down (the wedding was well-attended but it did not have 700+ guests). It's right on Michigan Avenue, too, so at the end we processed out and waited on the sidewalk amongst the St. Patrick's Day revelers while the wedding officiants proclaimed the marriage and the bride and groom came out to greet the crowd.

The ceremony done, we had some time before the reception started--and it was on the south side on the University of Chicago campus--so after a brief chat outside the church with sam.locke.54, who I hadn't seen in five years since before the Plague Years, and his girlfriend who I had never previously met, we joined lisekatevans's roommate luke.beasley.262 just next door at the Four Seasons bar for an hour for a drink and some snacks. sashagee and I spent most of it talking to one of lisekatevans's friends who works in children's television in Los Angeles, who did one of the readings at the ceremony and who later gave a toast at the reception before our time ran out and we all snagged a Lyft and made our way south to the Quadrangle Club. We spent most of the reception talking to sam.locke.54 again, I drank several Old Fashioneds and sashagee drank vodka seltzers with lime, and I even had a brief civil conversation with tropicanaomega at her instigation--it was about her seeing me walking on Berteau and asking if I lived nearby, and me explaining that we took Laila to her swimming lessons on Mondays by that road.

The biggest draw of the reception (for me) was that they had a live band for most of it! Sure, for some parts during breaks they would play pre-recorded music, but the bride and groom's first dance, and some of the dancing we did ourselves, was done to the sound of live music. We ate dinner--I had salmon, sashagee had the ravioli--chatted with the guests, ate chocolate dessert, and danced the night away. I even got a dance with the bride, after most of the guests had cleared out from the dance floor. We left just after ten, after a full day of celebrations, and came home and went to bed. A lovely day for a lovely couple.

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[angelofthenorth]

That sounds lovely.