Why are weddings such wonderful things?! They are, aren't they?.....Therese
I didn't support weddings for sometime after getting divorced but now i am having fun again. I liked the idea of self organized wedding ceremony. Funda ----- Original Message ----- From: "Therese Fitzpatrick" <therese.fitzpatr...@gmail.com> To: <osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu> Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 4:02 AM Subject: Re: What has been your biggest surprise in an Open Space annual meeting? Felicidades y buena suerte, Fremy. . . y a su esposa nueva, tambien. (I hope I have correctly recalled that you are a Spanish teacher.) Last August, we had a wedding at Spirited Work. The bride and groom had gotten unexpected advice from their immigration lawyer to marry as quickly as possible just a week before SW/August 2004. They asked me what i thought of a SW/open space wedding because, as the bride put it, if someone was going to find something wrong with a wedding at SW, it would be me. Could that mean she considers me querulous?! I immediately said yes and pointed out that the wedding would be in open space and only those who wanted to come would. We had a regular SW weekend, with a Thursday evening circle and then we opened the space on Friday. The bride posted a topic that Friday morning on planning the wedding for Saturday evening, which was just fine because we pretty much always had a party of some kind of Saturday. A bunch of folks got into the wedding planning. I threw an all girl sauna party Friday night in lieu of a bridal shower. The men disappeared that Friday evening so they did not see a few women prancing in the woods au naturelle late into the night. A few people that were not a part of the SW event turned up after our regular Saturday night dinner just to come to the wedding. There was cake. There was bubbly. Flowers all over the place. The whole event was self-organized by the people interested in organizing it and the rest of us just showed up. And there were 'regular' marketplace sessions throughout each day. . . just some of the sessions were about wedding. A few folks felt that a wedding didn't belong at SW so they did not attend the wedding that Saturday evening although they came down later for the dancing and drumming. We almost always had drumming and dancing on Saturday night at SW, with or without weddings. As a matter of fact, I don't think our party looked very different than usual. Thanks, Fremy, for telling us about your wedding. Why are weddings such wonderful things?! They are, aren't they? * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist