Making Things
Nov. 8th, 2015 11:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ladyspriteI helped make a wedding yesterday. And it was amazing.
A while ago - I can't remember exactly when; sometime in the late spring or so - a dear friend did me the honor of asking me to be an attendant at her wedding. I love both her and her fiance, and I love weddings, and I was glad beyond words to be asked to share in this event, so of course I said yes.
A little while later - somewhere around July - she and her fiance asked me to help pitch in with the wedding planning. I have a small handful of obscure but occasionally useful superpowers, and one of them is Getting Stuff Done. Also, being married, I've ridden this rodeo before. And I know that the process of planning a wedding can be a big, frazzling, intimidating mess. And I like being helpful.
So I've spent a chunk of the last few months pitching in where I can. Calling photographers and videographers, coordinating with the DJ and the venue and with the wedding party and the hairdresser, talking through timelines and helping make lists, and most of all reminding two people that I care about very much that this whole thing was ultimately supposed to be a positive experience, and that the most important part wasn't the table linens or the positioning of the favors, but their love for each other and their community's love for them.
And yesterday this all came together in one big colorful vibrant creative sparkly fairy tale full of masks and flowers and dancing and family and love, and I am so incredibly happy and proud and grateful to have been part of making it happen.
Weddings are wonderful. Love is wonderful. My friends are amazing.
A while ago - I can't remember exactly when; sometime in the late spring or so - a dear friend did me the honor of asking me to be an attendant at her wedding. I love both her and her fiance, and I love weddings, and I was glad beyond words to be asked to share in this event, so of course I said yes.
A little while later - somewhere around July - she and her fiance asked me to help pitch in with the wedding planning. I have a small handful of obscure but occasionally useful superpowers, and one of them is Getting Stuff Done. Also, being married, I've ridden this rodeo before. And I know that the process of planning a wedding can be a big, frazzling, intimidating mess. And I like being helpful.
So I've spent a chunk of the last few months pitching in where I can. Calling photographers and videographers, coordinating with the DJ and the venue and with the wedding party and the hairdresser, talking through timelines and helping make lists, and most of all reminding two people that I care about very much that this whole thing was ultimately supposed to be a positive experience, and that the most important part wasn't the table linens or the positioning of the favors, but their love for each other and their community's love for them.
And yesterday this all came together in one big colorful vibrant creative sparkly fairy tale full of masks and flowers and dancing and family and love, and I am so incredibly happy and proud and grateful to have been part of making it happen.
Weddings are wonderful. Love is wonderful. My friends are amazing.
