OK Michael, i will let you (and the list) know when i start looking for an OS wedding facilitator. Thank you, Funda
----- Original Message ----- From: "Pannwitz, Michael M" <mmpa...@boscop.de> To: <osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu> Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 5:17 PM Subject: Re: What has been your biggest surprise in an Open Space annual meeting? > Well, in case you are looking for a facilitator for your next > wedding, Funda, > I am game > and I know that there are others on the list that have facilitated > open space weddings > but also > open space birthdays > open space funerals > .... > .... > Greetings from Berlin > mmp > > On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 15:45:26 +0300, Funda Oral wrote: > > >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 > > > > > > > > Michael M Pannwitz, boscop eg > Draisweg 1, 12209 Berlin, Germany > ++49-30-772 8000 > www.boscop.de www.michaelmpannwitz.de > > Check out the new Open Space World Map now with 293 Open Space Workers in 54 countries (working in a total of 114 countries worldwide) > www.openspaceworldmap.org > > * > * > ========================================================== > 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