On Friday night, Dave, Elisabete & I, along with the two bride's maids & two older brothers met up for the rehearsal dinner at Fellini Koolini's. They arrived fashionably late (over a half hour), and we didn't end up ordering until probably 40 min afterwards.. funn..
After dinner, we went to Jacks (bar), as well as T.J.Baxters before heading home, as we had a early morning brunch planned.
We were supposed to meet up at around 11:30, or a little later, to make it over to Dave's house for the brunch before heading out to get dressed up & ready in our suits.
Had some drinks; brought silver Patron & dark Havana Club, Sprite & lime wedges, so we has a few before heading out, back to the house where the ceremony was set to begin.
Long story short, we bought some Ciagros, and headed to the house; waiting in the front parking lot for the ceremony to begin. The sound of the hired Bagpiper in the distance made this day serenely unreal.~
The ceremony itself was not long, but there was not a idle moment. At the beginning, there was laid out the foundation of this process; the story of how, in the acient lands of the Celts, where priests were hard to come by, a ceremony of sorts was conducted between two individuals as a token of their commitment to one another; a robe was wrapped around their wrists, with each wrap around, a symbol of one of their commitments, and a knot was tied at the end; the basis of the statement "Tying the knot", along with the blood ceremony~ where blood was drawn, and mixed physically at the wrist.~
The whole procession was both beautiful to the eye, as well as the ear, and the senses; the Old Country hung heavy over that day, and if there were a God, he would have seen that it was good..~
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