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Thread: Weddings and Civil Partnerships 2013
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Welease Woderwick
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Another shiny new thread and a link to some exciting news!
Congratulations sophs!
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I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.
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Yam-pk
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I gotted down on my liddle knee in front of my girlfriend in York and asked for her hand in marriage...and she said YES!! ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif) ![[Cool]](cool.gif) (Date undecided, prolly later on this year/beginning of next!)
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Doublethink.
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Congratulations !!! ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
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Beautiful Dreamer
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Congrats, sophs! I wish for you to have all the happiness in your marriage that we have in ours!
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More where that came from
Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time!
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Gill H
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You know that is Star Wars Day, right? Was that deliberate?
A Star Wars wedding could be cool...!
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sophs
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quote:
Originally posted by Gill H:
You know that is Star Wars Day, right? Was that deliberate?
Sort of, it all fell into place and we're including lightsabers in the floral decorations!
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Kelly Alves
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You rock, Sophs.
Also-- squee!
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Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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Tractor Girl
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Congratulations Sophs
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North East Quine
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Lightsabres! What an excellent wedding! Congratulations and much happiness!
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The Intrepid Mrs S
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The curate at a neighbouring church - they use our building for most weddings as it is a) prettier and b) not in a shopping centre - had a Star Wars wedding for her very first one. Our vicar's wife looked out of the vicarage window and saw the car park full of stormtroopers *gulp* ![[Ultra confused]](graemlins/confused2.gif)
It turned out that the couple had raised a lot of money for charity dressing up in Star Wars kit, however the costumes were all kept *outside* the church. But the newly-ordained curate had to rewrite her wedding sermon and has no chance of recycling it, as I believe is common practice! ![[Two face]](graemlins/scot_twoface.gif)
Mrs. S, just hoping the Intrepid Miss S doesn't get any ideas
*edited for spelling ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif) *
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'Lord, please give us patience. NOW!'
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duchess
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congrats sophs!
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Mrs Shrew
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Mr Shrew and I have got engaged this week :-) although it may spill over into wedding next year as planning time needed
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Was "mummyfrances".
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Earwig
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Congrats to Mr and Mrs Shrew!
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I'm brand new to the Ship, but Mr Seeking and I got married a month ago. Our various Christian/Muslim/atheist family and friends all in one room with a female Unitarian minister and there no one complained about their particular tradition being left out - so it was awesome!
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Barnabas62
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Not sure this is the right thread at all, but today's our 45th Wedding Anniversary, and we've got four generations helping us to celebrate it (us, my wife's parents, our eldest son and his wife, and two grandchildren.) And this will be my only post today!
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Who is it that you seek? How then shall we live? How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land?
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Huia
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Barnabas and Mrs Barnabas ![[Overused]](graemlins/notworthy.gif) I hope the celebrations go well.
Huia
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L'organist
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Mr and Mrs Barnabas62 - Congratulations on your Sapphire anniversary..
Hope you have/had a wonderful day and many more to come. ![[Angel]](graemlins/angel.gif)
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Rara temporum felicitate ubi sentire quae velis et quae sentias dicere licet
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Congratulations Barnabees!
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Brian: You're all individuals!
Crowd: We're all individuals!
Lone voice: I'm not!
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Tree Bee
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Congratulations Barnabus62 and wife. What a great milestone!
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http://saysaysay54.wordpress.com
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Doublethink.
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quote:
Originally posted by Barnabas62:
Not sure this is the right thread at all, but today's our 45th Wedding Anniversary, and we've got four generations helping us to celebrate it (us, my wife's parents, our eldest son and his wife, and two grandchildren.) And this will be my only post today!
Congrats !!
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mousethief
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многая лета!
([May God grant you] many years!)
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Mrs Shrew
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Congratulations Barnabees ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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"The goal of life is not to make other people in your own image, it is to understand that they, too, are in God's image" (Orfeo)
Was "mummyfrances".
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Barnabas62
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Very kind; thanks all. We had a lovely, lovely time.
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Who is it that you seek? How then shall we live? How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land?
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Yangtze
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Some of you may remember Tractor Girl, a shipmate who hasn't been sailing with us much recently for various reasons.
Anyway I was privileged to attend her marriage commitment ceremony today.
Glorious weather and in the great surroundings of Bletchley Park. A wonderful service. Wishing her and K all the best in their life together.
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Uncle Pete
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Bletchley Park? That sounds top-secret it do! Was there code involved?
Met her at a Wightmeet some years ago. Give her my heartiest!
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Ferijen
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TG, if you're reading this, huge congratulations!
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basso
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I do remember Tractor Girl.
Hope you're reading, TG. Congratulations!
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Qoheleth.
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Congratulations! ![[Axe murder]](graemlins/lovedrops.gif)
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Doublethink.
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Ditto !!
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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...and from me, too.
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I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.
Fancy a break in South India?
Accessible Homestay Guesthouse in Central Kerala, contact me for details
What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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Tractor Girl
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Thanks for your kind wishes
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Patience, Firmness and Perseverance were my only weapons; and those I resolved to use to the utmost - Anne Bronte
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LRP
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Congratulations, hope we meet up with you in the not too distant future.
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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We'll keep this live in case there are any other matches happening this year - or advance notice of ones for next year.
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I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.
Fancy a break in South India?
Accessible Homestay Guesthouse in Central Kerala, contact me for details
What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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The Intrepid Mrs S
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The Intrepid Miss S and Future Son-in-Law will be married in our parish church in less than a month. When the vicar read the banns in our church for the first time, he got to 'you are to declare it now *pause* and probably explain yourself to Miss S's parents as well!' which got a round of laughter.
It's all been planned to a fare-the-well, so it's only the behaviour of some of the guests that might give cause for concern. That'll be my family, of course.
If anyone has any spare prayers, they'd be very welcome. Thanks guys
The Nervous Mrs. S - anyone know how to make pew-end decorations?
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Don't get your knickers in a twist over your advancing age. It achieves nothing and makes you walk funny.
Prayer should be our first recourse, not our last resort
'Lord, please give us patience. NOW!'
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St Everild
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Suitable ribbon, made into big floofy bows with long "tails" and secured with blu-tack.
And for the front 2 pews 3 arum lilies each side, with their heads pointing downwards, tied with big floofy bows etc...
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Piglet
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I acted as verger for a couple of weddings at the Cathedral a couple of weeks ago, and the pew-end decorations were quite big pieces of white chiffony stuff tied in big bows (in one case, they were secured with diamanté circlets), and fastened over the pew-ends with long loops of elastic - they looked quite effective, and were easily removed afterwards.
eta: I'd be a bit wary of arum lilies - they're quite allergenic to some people and I understand they can drop sticky stuff that might be difficult to get rid of (especially from a polished floor).
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The Intrepid Mrs S
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Thanks peeps - I have been to the flower wholesalers and bought pew-end-specific holders with oasis. I have two extra to practise on, and am going out tomorrow to buy suitably floofable ribbon (St. E, I LOVE that word!)
The Butterfingered Mrs. S ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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Prayer should be our first recourse, not our last resort
'Lord, please give us patience. NOW!'
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L'organist
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Mrs S: unless the aisle of your church is very wide don't bother with flowers.
IME weddings are one occasion when most of the congregation will walk around in pairs and a narrow(ish) aisle means that pew-ends get knocked about.
The chiffon bows on elastic mentioned above sound good: for variety, you could tie a "sash" around where the bow is tied of contrasting colour to match that worn by bridesmaids...
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The Intrepid Mrs S
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Well, I have a prototype using garden foliage and a single rose, plus a big bow of organza ribbon in ivory and a small bow of narrow satin ribbon in purple. The flower ladies advised me to stagger them, apart from the two pews at the front, first to make them go further and second to avoid crushing; also to use wired ribbon for the big bows so they can be floofed up, though that wasn't their phraseology
Currently awaiting opinion from Miss S ...
The Apprehensive Mrs. S
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Don't get your knickers in a twist over your advancing age. It achieves nothing and makes you walk funny.
Prayer should be our first recourse, not our last resort
'Lord, please give us patience. NOW!'
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North East Quine
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I am going to be a bridesmaid next week. The bride was my bridesmaid almost 25 years ago!
I have an interesting decorative challenge, but I can't ask for advice here as the bride is an occasional lurker and knows my ship name.
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The Intrepid Mrs S
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Well how very exciting, NEQ! What are you wearing?
Spent the morning dragging the Dowager Mrs S round the shops for an outfit - she has the makings of at least three different ones at home, but none are complete and none of them is exactly what she wants ![[Confused]](confused.gif) Most of the time was spent bickering over whether something was black or navy ![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif) and whether it would go with any of what she already had ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
Needless to say we didn't actually BUY anything and the wedding is now less than 2=3 weeks away...
Mrs S, through gritted teeth
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Don't get your knickers in a twist over your advancing age. It achieves nothing and makes you walk funny.
Prayer should be our first recourse, not our last resort
'Lord, please give us patience. NOW!'
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North East Quine
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My dress is top secret! It's excellent; not too "bridesmaidy" I could potentially wear it again, in the unlikely event of my being invited to a posh black tie event.
The only drawback is that my daughter, 31 years younger and 5 stone lighter, is also a bridesmaid, wearing the same dress.
Daughter intends to wear hers again, at her school leavers' prom next year.
The organist who played at our wedding is playing at this one.
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Intrepid Mrs S - My Mother in Law and I spent a happy day shopping in Sherbourne for a frock for her to wear to my wedding. She is only about 4' 8" tall and very petite, and we were finding it tricky to find anything. In the end we asked the advcie of the assistants in the nicest shop we'd been to and they came up with an ideal shift dress with bolero jacket in a pale grey colour. Maybe worth doing that with the Dowager.
NEQ - have fun as a bridesmaid. I always wanted to be one when I was little, but we have so few relations on either side of my family that it never happened.
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I was never a bridesmaid when I was young. I was a bride at 24, and a bridesmaid at 26, 40, and now 49. I don't expect to be a bridesmaid again after this.
(Yes, yes, I know, technically a married bridesmaid is a Matron of Honour, but that sounds so....so...matronly. I might be fat and almost fifty, but I'm still just a young thing in my own head. I feel more "bridesmaid" than "matron of honour."
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basso
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A friend of mine is being a bridesmaid today for the first time. She's just past 50. There's always time!
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The Intrepid Mrs S
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Thanks Gussie - we may hit Wilton on Monday as I drive the Dowager home.
NEQ - we need photos afterwards, if it's a secret now, y'hear? I was a bridesmaid once at about 8, for some friends of my parents. As they had 3 nieces and I was the same age as the middle one, we made a neat pattern for the photos. I was forever grateful as my aunts were both married and I never expected to get a chance to be a bridesmaid!
Mrs. S, who still has the circlet of flowers somewhere ...
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Prayer should be our first recourse, not our last resort
'Lord, please give us patience. NOW!'
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The Intrepid Mrs S
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Apologies for the double post, but I forgot to say that my friends, who have known Miss S since she was maybe 8 years old, have always promised her that they would be her bridesmaids - four of them in Tellytubby costumes
Poor child still isn't entirely sure they won't turn up in costume ...
Mrs. S, snickering hound ...
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Don't get your knickers in a twist over your advancing age. It achieves nothing and makes you walk funny.
Prayer should be our first recourse, not our last resort
'Lord, please give us patience. NOW!'
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Tukai
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On the subject of bridesmaid's costumes, see this old Caption Competition .
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The Intrepid Mrs S
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Thanks to a kind shipmate's suggestion, The Dowager and I tracked down a very lovely outfit for her today - not so formal that she'll never wear it again, in fact capable of many variations in the future *mops brow*
Just need to make sure she wears the Killer Hat she found in her wardrobe, rather than a safer but far less glamorous one. Not bad for 89, I say!
Not sure who is most pleased - The Dowager or The Daughter, or indeed the Granddaughter whose wedding this is
Mrs. S, much relieved
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Don't get your knickers in a twist over your advancing age. It achieves nothing and makes you walk funny.
Prayer should be our first recourse, not our last resort
'Lord, please give us patience. NOW!'
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