We had the pleasure to meet with our organist Ginny yesterday for one final romp through our wedding selections… we decided to go with another piece for Steph’s entry:
“Cantilena” by Josef Rheinberger.
It’s a movement from his Sonata in D minor, op. 148 no. 11. A beautiful German romantic melody, I think it avoids some [...]
by Robert Hershon
you politely ask me not to die and i promise not to
right from the beginning—a relationship based on
good sense and thoughtfulness in little things
i would like to be loved for such simple attainments
as breathing regularly and not falling down too often
or because my eyes are brown or my father left-handed
and to be on [...]
I was looking at a recipe for beet salad, and there in the “Most Popular ” column is the headline: Modern Love: Those Aren’t Fighting Words, Dear
Well, I consider myself something of an authority on Modern Love, so I checked it out.
Very interesting article to say the least; the gist is, that in our striving [...]
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Our flowers, the setting, a gorgeous gown (I assume)… all these will make our wedding look beautiful.
But it’s the music that’ll make our wedding feel beautiful.
For much of my life, I have looked to music for many things. Viz.: distraction, solace, identity, beauty, verisimilitude, [...]
We’re working through the details of the reception and one of the things I’m looking forward to the most is dancing with so many of my friends. Contrary to popular belief, JWF and I will not be performing a Wedding “Evolution of Dance”. But how fun would it be to have everyone break out into [...]
We will be more busy than usual this weekend (is that possible?) with selling, packing and moving. Also on the docket is the wedding of my cousin Clay and his fiancé Grace. It may be pretty quiet here on the blog until Sunday night. I don’t have much time to write anything of substance today [...]
We broke from the moving to listen to some pieces our organist Ginny had kindly prepared for us. She was nice enough to call our descriptions for what we wanted “unique.” After hearing a lot of compositions, we froze for a minute in fear of (to us) the unknown. We don’t to want to play [...]
It is getting to the point where relaxing is stressing us out!!! All we can think about is our checklist…
That said, we finished our invitations this past weekend, ordered all the food, and picked out our wedding bands. And we still got to enjoy a lovely time with Steph’s fam for Father’s Day. Steph’s cousin [...]
Through talking about honeymoons I’ve become aware of an idea I had in my head…not something I really thought about actively. It was just the sort of thing one maybe expects or wants to happen…subconsciously. My preconceived notion about honeymoons. I will try to paint the picture: Someday, many years from now, a faded snapshot [...]
One of the topics I’m most looking forward to blogging on is the Episcopal Wedding Liturgy. It is no small comfort, in the face of endless choice and direction towards “my” wedding, to say, “No, I am not interested in customizing the ceremony. We’re doing it by the book.” Well, books… and those would be the 19832 [...]
