Girl Meets Girl (& Other Peculiar Love Songs): The Ceremony

Meet the Brides

Marie (aka Haslin, aka Lady-Az, aka Morgainelefae, aka Danger Jane) has too many online aliases to keep straight. She likes to draw and write an awful lot. Right now, she's an associate editor for the Queer Speculative fiction and poetry journal, Collective Fallout. She is in the process of applying to grad school. She has a B.A. in the Interdisciplinary Arts from Chester College of New England, in which she focused on writing short fiction, sequential art and illustration, book-making, print-making, philosophy, lit-crit, and art history, among many things. She also loves the color orange.

Kris (aka Saurou) is much better at keeping her online aliases simple. She just graduated from Chester College, with a B.A. in Creative Writing, where she focused on short fiction, nature writing, medical writing, and memoir. She's working on completing a novel-length memoir/nature/medical writing manuscript entitled "Out of Joint." Some of her favorite things include tree-hugging, dirt-worshipping, philosophy, guinea pigs, and the study of human sexuality. She likes to blog, make and sell jewelry, and keep her scatter-brain academic fiancee in line. She's also very cuddly.

Together, their powers combine to form an awesome tag-team of tattoo-loving, sex-positive feminist, literature-gobbling, magic-believery, gamer-geek, academic-minded chickadees. Which is awesome, because they're in love.

Friday, December 18, 2009

The Ceremony

It ended up being too cold to have the ceremony outside, so the whole thing happened in what I now like to affectionately call the Love Tent. :) When our Officiant, Ben, walked in, one of the kids shouted "WHAT IS THAT?!" which was one of the highlights of the day. Ben later told us that, "Gasmasks hide laughter very well."

Something happened in between here (above) and there (below) where, just as K was reading her vows to me, my shawl slipped off my shoulders. She laughed in the middle of saying "With this ring..." and finished with a quick "...I make you drop your shawl."

Sometimes it's just good to laugh.