the Ring and the Veil
A wedding is more than just the legal joining of two people, in love and in society.
It's more than even the more complex combining of two families.
A wedding is also often a societal occasion, gathering disparate peoples together for a ceremony; it's the public keeping of a promise made for reasons of love, of devotion, of accepting responsibility, of admitting you're never going to fuck anyone else for the rest of your life.
A wedding is a sign of growing up, whether you mean to or not, it's a legal joining of two separate people, families, ideas, whether they love one another or not.
It can be a total submission or an in-your-face, a defiance or an acceptance, an escape from home or a resignation to duty. The participants often bring their own personal baggage, old memories, former (and not so former) lovers, unrealistic dreams, ugly desires; so do all members involved, the clergy, the parents, the attendants, the guests, the caterers and florists... etc.
And not everyone will wish the new couple well.
This is playing with the image of a wedding, any wedding, what's implied, what's said, what can happen. It can and will go in any number of ways, and that means ANY number.
I am setting up the ingredients for more than one scenario, including settings such as a church or chapel, participants such as bride, groom, guests, lovers, etc. This is meant to be a thoughtful and hopefully fun romp at all the ways things go wrong or even right when two people tie the knot. Mayhem is encouraged, soap-opera spoofs allowed, surrealism welcome.
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A wedding is also often a societal occasion, gathering disparate peoples together for a ceremony; it's the public keeping of a promise made for reasons of love, of devotion, of accepting responsibility, of admitting you're never going to fuck anyone else for the rest of your life.
A wedding is a sign of growing up, whether you mean to or not, it's a legal joining of two separate people, families, ideas, whether they love one another or not.
It can be a total submission or an in-your-face, a defiance or an acceptance, an escape from home or a resignation to duty. The participants often bring their own personal baggage, old memories, former (and not so former) lovers, unrealistic dreams, ugly desires; so do all members involved, the clergy, the parents, the attendants, the guests, the caterers and florists... etc.
And not everyone will wish the new couple well.
This is playing with the image of a wedding, any wedding, what's implied, what's said, what can happen. It can and will go in any number of ways, and that means ANY number.
I am setting up the ingredients for more than one scenario, including settings such as a church or chapel, participants such as bride, groom, guests, lovers, etc. This is meant to be a thoughtful and hopefully fun romp at all the ways things go wrong or even right when two people tie the knot. Mayhem is encouraged, soap-opera spoofs allowed, surrealism welcome.