Year: 2011

A wedding story

When it came to a wedding, I was pretty easygoing about a lot of things, but there was one thing that I really, really,  really wanted. Dancing. And not that ‘have a DJ who puts on some random popular music and the really brave people bop along to it looking kinda lame’ dancing either.  The last time I went to a wedding in Hawaii with that kind of dancing the DJ played that Shaggy song about the spare key and the girl next door, and I wasn’t going to have that! Nope, I wanted proper, elegant, dancing.  But it had to be something that everyone could do, which meant contradancing, with a caller. There isn’t actually anyone who does contradancing in my neck of the woods in Hawaii, so my dad and I ordered in instruction tapes, learned how to call, taught a bunch of friends how to contradance, videotaped ourselves calling, and gave the tapes and elaborate instructions to a very brave musician who was willing to try calling.  And sorted an entire playlist. …

If I had been a bride in 1800

I would wear this dress: I’m not sure about the hairstyle, but the dress?  I’m so there!  The over robe, the wrapped sleeve trimmings, the pleated ruffle, and the metallic gold trimmed petticoat.  *swoon* I guess I would prefer if it were a little more white, and a little less oyster I think I’d wear it with these shoes: Or a pink and white version of the bridesmaids shoes (below) With the necessities taken care of, every well dressed bride needs a fan: Do you think a suitably romantic pastoral scene, something with nymphs and roses, would be too much to ask for? For my groom, I’m trying to decide between this coat: And this one (only in black, which may be the colour it was to begin with anyway): (in a totally imaginary wedding it’s OK that he doesn’t get a say, right? right?) For bridesmaids, this robe, in grass green.  Divine! If I were the evil bride, I’d make them wear these dresses.  Hehe. Since I’m not though, I’m even going to let …