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Private Beach, Neptune, California, Sunset on Saturday, 8/16

Aug 16, 2008 06:05

Nobody much cares where you sit, since it's not like there's a bride's side, or like Xander and Bridge don't share all the same friends, but the green fabric deck chairs are separated by a white runner anyway ( Read more... )

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Re: Ceremony!!!! - Vows bridge_carson August 16 2008, 22:13:44 UTC

"Right," Bridge- who hadn't actually let go of Xander's hand since the whole thing in the cabana- says. He clears his throat and begins to speak: "Seeing the future is something that's always come naturally for me," he says. "But never so easily as it does when I look at you. I look at you and I *know*, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that we are meant to be together. You're the one person I love and trust above all others in this or any other universe," and okay, he'd already said that part, sort of, but no one else had been around to hear it, so he was saying it again. "And that's why I'm here tonight: to let all those universes know that I love you and will stand by you in times of sadness, joy, sickness, and health, until the end of all things."

Re: Ceremony!!!! - Vows needsaparrot August 16 2008, 22:45:59 UTC

And now there's hesitation, but only because Xander can't speak. And it's not the same kind of choking he was doing before. It's just... Bridge. He swallows hard, blinking until he can see again, and smiles. "Oh, I'm supposed to top that? Great."

Bridge's hand is warm in his, and he almost feels like he doesn't have to say anything, because God knows it's all there. But there's a reason there's other people here tonight ( ... )

Re: Ceremony!!!! - Vows bridge_carson August 16 2008, 23:05:00 UTC

Yeah, so that thing where weddings kind of make Bridge teary-eyed? Apparently the fact that it's his *own* wedding this time doesn't seem to make a difference, because his eyes are definitely watering now. He's also grinning a lot.

"That- I'm good with that," Bridge says. "Like, really, really good with it. It's a very good plan and I approve wholeheartedly." Yes, he's kind of a dork. This should not be news.

Re: Ceremony!!!! - Vows needsaparrot August 16 2008, 23:21:40 UTC

"Did you know he's kind of a dork?" the rabbi asks Xander.

"I caught that, yeah," Xander assures him.

"Just checking. Now would be the time to say something, if you had any objections."

"I'm good."

The rabbi looks up at the audience. "Anybody else?" This would be the interfaith part. Also the 'grooms told him he had to ask' part.

Re: Ceremony!!!! - Vows mparkerceo August 16 2008, 23:24:37 UTC

Parker might have taken a step to the side to be clearly visible, and glared at the entire surrounding congregation at this point.

"Anyone? Anyone? No? Yay. Proceed."

Re: Ceremony!!!! - Vows needsaparrot August 16 2008, 23:28:48 UTC

Xander snickers and nods to the rabbi. "You heard the lady with the shoes."

Re: Ceremony!!!! - Vows needsaparrot August 16 2008, 23:32:09 UTC

Said rabbi isn't sure whether he meant the ones on her feet or the ones dangling from her hand; both pairs look dangerous. "Loud and clear. Hearing no objections, Xander and Bridge will exchange rings now."

Re: Ceremony!!!! - Vows willbedone August 16 2008, 23:38:12 UTC

Willow - with a surprising minimal of fumbling - passed Xander a ring.

She didn't mention how glad she was that she hadn't accidentally broken it somehow. Don't ask how, Willow would've found a way.

Re: Ceremony!!!! - Vows needsaparrot August 16 2008, 23:48:57 UTC

Xander didn't need to ask how; he's too busy concentrating on not breaking it -- or dropping it -- now. His other hand is still occupied, after all. Which at least makes it a fairly short trip to Bridge's.

This one's easy. It's short, and there's only one tiny bit in a foreign language, which he's been assured repeatedly won't set anything on fire.

"Ani l'dodi v'dodi li," he says carefully as he slides the ring onto Bridge's finger. "I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine."

Re: Ceremony!!!! - Vows bridge_carson August 17 2008, 00:07:54 UTC

And there- there's the ring. And it's on his *hand*. And okay, it's not like he hadn't tried it on before... but this isn't slipping it on for a few moments to make sure it's sized properly. This is the real thing, now.

Which is why it takes him a couple of moments to remember that oh, yeah, my turn now, and he's turning to Anders to get the other ring.

Re: Ceremony!!!! - Vows cantgetnorelief August 17 2008, 00:35:55 UTC

Anders had turned and grinned at RIC when he went to retrieve the other ring from the robot dog's ear, and he could've sworn RIC purred happily back at him.

At any rate, he's got the ring in his hand and he's grinning like a mad, proud, crazy fool as he hands the shiny little band to his best friend, and wow.

Re: Ceremony!!!! - Vows bridge_carson August 17 2008, 00:45:01 UTC

Anders' grin might find some competition in Bridge's own as he takes the ring.

"Ani l'dodi v'dodi li. I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine," Bridge repeats, taking Xander's hand once again so that he can put the ring on it, where it belongs.

Re: Ceremony!!!! - Vows needsaparrot August 17 2008, 01:11:12 UTC

It's real. It was real before, it's never been not real, but now it's cool and solid on Xander's finger, and it's Real. The forever kind of Real.

And forever, surprisingly, feels pretty frakking good.

Re: Ceremony!!!! - Vows needsaparrot August 17 2008, 01:16:49 UTC

The rabbi might take a moment too long to stop smiling and actually speak, but he figures tonight's other couple can wait a few seconds. Or he can put his foot down on his way up the PCH to make up for lost time.

"This is the part where I say do you and you say I do, if you want to do that part, but from where I'm standing I think you already did."

Re: Ceremony!!!! - Vows needsaparrot August 17 2008, 01:17:50 UTC

"We done did," agrees Xander.

Re: Ceremony!!!! - Vows needsaparrot August 17 2008, 01:33:12 UTC

Nodding and reaching for two napkin-wrapped bundles lying side by side on the table next to Jeremiah, he says, "The breaking of glass reminds us of the fragility of life, especially the lives me make together, but it also reminds us of the strength of our vows. The vows that Xander and Bridge have made to each other today are as permanent and irrevocable as the breaking of glass into a thousand pieces. Like the glass, they will be forever changed, just as impossible to return to what they were before."

Then he places the bundles, light-bulb shaped because they make crunchier sounds it's always better to avoid embarrassing too-sturdy-wineglass malfunctions, on the ground in front of Bridge and Xander.

"This is where you get to do the kissing part."

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