Originally published at The White Mist.
One matter to which all those involved in the wedding are amenable has been the creation of a wedding cheese, in lieu of a wedding cake. It was in pursuit of this that we travelled to Whitestone Cheeses of Oamaru earlier this week. Bob, the managing director, brought out a variety of cheese rounds for us to play with and we tried stacking different kinds and sizes of cheese on top of each other to create our lactic vision. This was a level of fun normally associated with childhood. A wholesale price list meant the costing of the enterprise was reasonable too.
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The idea of a wedding
4 February, 2009
in commentatrix, we are family
Originally posted at The White Mist.
Among our friends and family, marriage and the wedding that formalises it are not de rigeur, nor necessarily the way one would want to define a relationship. Talking to others about our decision to do both has therefore meant some reflection, on top of the reflection that preceded the decision in the first place.
My own thinking about this has been affected by my relationship with my family, particularly my mother’s family. My ancestors were frequently mobile people whose circumstances were at times limited, and whose trace in the historical record is consequently light. Their marriages are the things that have enabled us, when looking, to find them in the archives, to trace where they were, and when, and to infer or imagine a little of what they were like.
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