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Nobody much cares where you sit, since it's not like there's a bride's side, or like Xander and Bridge don't share all the same friends, but the green fabric deck chairs are separated by a white runner anyway.
Lit on either side by softly-muted glow-balls, it leads down to a chupah that's -- contain your shock -- just as green.
In fact, it looks pretty much like this:
Welcome to the Carson-Harris wedding.
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[OOC: Up supersuper early so guests and wedding party members can SP and I can craaaaaaaaash. Ceremony will be added in later in the day, and the inevitable followup post will follow. As they do.]
Re: Ceremony!!!! - Vows
Date: 2008-08-16 10:08 pm (UTC)the sixteenth of the month of Av
in the year five thousand, seven hundred and sixty-eight
corresponding to the sixteenth of the month of June
in the year two thousand and eight,
the sacred covenant of marriage is entered into between
Bridge Carson and Alexander Harris,
in the presence of witnesses, friends, and loved ones.
And these two say:
We recognize that we are for each other,
and declare it here and now
so that everyone will know what we do:
that this is the beginning of a new family,
made not only of our separate pasts,
but of the joy we have found in each other,
the hope to create a better future,
and the knowledge that nothing,
not time, distance, or fear,
can ever separate us again."
He turns to Bridge. "And now I believe the groom in the kippah has something to say."
Re: Ceremony!!!! - Vows
Date: 2008-08-16 10:13 pm (UTC)Re: Ceremony!!!! - Vows
Date: 2008-08-16 10:45 pm (UTC)Bridge's hand is warm in his, and he almost feels like he doesn't have to say anything, because God knows it's all there. But there's a reason there's other people here tonight.
"I used to think I knew what family was, before I met you," Xander says. "And marriage. Family was a lot of the people here tonight, or pretty good lookalikes, and marriage was... something my parents did." And that's as much of that as he's going to let into this wedding. "I never believed I could do both. Or that I'd ever want to. But you did. You just keep trusting me to be better than I think I am, and...I want to be that for you. So that's what I'm gonna do."
He closes his eye for a moment, finding another breath, then opens it and adds, "And also I promise to always wiggle my fingers when somebody says buttery--" Which he does. "And never yell or be mean, kiss Parker without permission, grope Marty Blank, or go off to the apocalypse without leaving a note about where it is so you can find me. And when I screw up and do all those things except for the kissing and the groping, I promise to stay and fix it, and never walk away."
Re: Ceremony!!!! - Vows
Date: 2008-08-16 11:05 pm (UTC)"That- I'm good with that," Bridge says. "Like, really, really good with it. It's a very good plan and I approve wholeheartedly." Yes, he's kind of a dork. This should not be news.
Re: Ceremony!!!! - Vows
Date: 2008-08-16 11:21 pm (UTC)"I caught that, yeah," Xander assures him.
"Just checking. Now would be the time to say something, if you had any objections."
"I'm good."
The rabbi looks up at the audience. "Anybody else?" This would be the interfaith part. Also the 'grooms told him he had to ask' part.
Re: Ceremony!!!! - Vows
Date: 2008-08-16 11:24 pm (UTC)"Anyone? Anyone? No? Yay. Proceed."
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Date: 2008-08-16 11:28 pm (UTC)Re: Ceremony!!!! - Vows
Date: 2008-08-16 11:32 pm (UTC)Re: Ceremony!!!! - Vows
Date: 2008-08-16 11:38 pm (UTC)She didn't mention how glad she was that she hadn't accidentally broken it somehow. Don't ask how, Willow would've found a way.
Re: Ceremony!!!! - Vows
Date: 2008-08-16 11:48 pm (UTC)This one's easy. It's short, and there's only one tiny bit in a foreign language, which he's been assured repeatedly won't set anything on fire.
"Ani l'dodi v'dodi li," he says carefully as he slides the ring onto Bridge's finger. "I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine."
Re: Ceremony!!!! - Vows
Date: 2008-08-17 12:07 am (UTC)Which is why it takes him a couple of moments to remember that oh, yeah, my turn now, and he's turning to Anders to get the other ring.
Re: Ceremony!!!! - Vows
Date: 2008-08-17 12:35 am (UTC)At any rate, he's got the ring in his hand and he's grinning like a mad, proud, crazy fool as he hands the shiny little band to his best friend, and wow.
Re: Ceremony!!!! - Vows
Date: 2008-08-17 12:45 am (UTC)"Ani l'dodi v'dodi li. I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine," Bridge repeats, taking Xander's hand once again so that he can put the ring on it, where it belongs.
Re: Ceremony!!!! - Vows
Date: 2008-08-17 01:11 am (UTC)And forever, surprisingly, feels pretty frakking good.
Re: Ceremony!!!! - Vows
Date: 2008-08-17 01:16 am (UTC)"This is the part where I say do you and you say I do, if you want to do that part, but from where I'm standing I think you already did."
Re: Ceremony!!!! - Vows
Date: 2008-08-17 01:17 am (UTC)Re: Ceremony!!!! - Vows
Date: 2008-08-17 01:33 am (UTC)Then he places the bundles, light-bulb shaped because
they make crunchier soundsit's always better to avoid embarrassing too-sturdy-wineglass malfunctions, on the ground in front of Bridge and Xander."This is where you get to do the kissing part."
Re: Ceremony!!!! - Vows
Date: 2008-08-17 01:36 am (UTC)Re: Ceremony!!!! - Vows
Date: 2008-08-17 01:39 am (UTC)And then there is stomping of glass.
Re: Ceremony!!!! - Vows
Date: 2008-08-17 01:46 am (UTC)