Wedding?
I received a very strange and exciting email today. No, it wasn't from a Mexicorn duke who wants to slobber on my pens (great video, G-Rated), it was from an old friend of mine from my Island days. She and her long term boyfriend are now engaged and want me to officiate in the wedding ceremony. They want to represent both of their cultural backgrounds, Jewish and Irish, in the cermony, and are asking me to lead up the Irish side. Shame and guilt jokes not withstanding, I think this is a wonderful idea. Of course, now I'm on the hook to come up with Celtic wedding traditions. Gaelic, poetry, and hand-binding is pretty much the skeleton they're leaning towards, so if anyone has any ideas, recommendations, resources I am all ears.
I feel kind of goofy thinking about this. I'm gonna be up there with a Rabbi, a spiritual leader who has been wedding people for years. When I imagine myself marrying my friends in a Celtic/Jewish ceremony, I keep picturing myself with a big bushy beard and an ascetic white robe. WTF, eh? I sure don't want to don a priest's outfit, and I don't want to look like a ren-faire reject, either, so what do I where? Does anyone who isn't in the SCA have Celtic weddings? I'm trying to maintain ancient tradition without being a kitschy joke and I'm a little over my head. Really, attire is the least of my worries. What do I say that uptight-Seattlite Jews and ex-military Texans will both respect? Fortunately, I have somewhere in the neighborhood of two years to figure this out.
I feel kind of goofy thinking about this. I'm gonna be up there with a Rabbi, a spiritual leader who has been wedding people for years. When I imagine myself marrying my friends in a Celtic/Jewish ceremony, I keep picturing myself with a big bushy beard and an ascetic white robe. WTF, eh? I sure don't want to don a priest's outfit, and I don't want to look like a ren-faire reject, either, so what do I where? Does anyone who isn't in the SCA have Celtic weddings? I'm trying to maintain ancient tradition without being a kitschy joke and I'm a little over my head. Really, attire is the least of my worries. What do I say that uptight-Seattlite Jews and ex-military Texans will both respect? Fortunately, I have somewhere in the neighborhood of two years to figure this out.