How To Tie A Knot

[Beartalon]

A do-it-myself lesson will be taught on June 8, 2007.

After that, I'm no longer legally single. My partner Jason and I will be married!
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Shun the unbeliever... SHUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN-NUH

[Samadhi]

Congratz!!
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And he lived happily ever after. Except for the dieing at the end and the heartbreak in between.

[Jack_Ian]

If you could postpone for 5 weeks you could get spliced with Jason on Friday, 13 ^th of July.

You're real name isn't Frederick by any chance, is it?

Could make for an interesting wedding theme.

Anyway, I hope you're both very happy together.

Congratulations!

[jesternl]

Congratulations!

[Courk]

I read the first line and thought "Why then? Why aren't you showing us now?" Then I thought, "Maybe he's going to a knot-tying class? That's interesting, but it has to be really unique to get its own thread, and it's scheduled way in advance. I wonder if he'll tell us about it."

Then I read the second sentence. I'm betting that's the point where the lights went on for most of you. Not me. "What legal issues arise with rope? And 'single'? What?"

So: I'm happy for you and confused. Congratulations! I'll have to recommend against using Jack_Ian, Wedding Planner, though.

[Sessie]

Congrats, Bearty!!
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"I have an everyday religion that works for me: love yourself first, and everything else falls into line." --Lucille Ball

[DP on holiday*]

Great news Paul, congrats also on behalf of Lu!

[Samadhi]

Jack_Ian: IMO all weddings should be held on Friday the 13th, but that's me.

[Victoria Silverwolf]

[Jack_Ian]

[jesus_saves]

Congratulations! Where are you being married?
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³⁸ For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
³⁹ Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord

~Romans 8:38-39

[Beartalon]

Thanks Everybody!

The wedding is a small ceremony - we'll be having a separate ceremony with a full reception later. Some of the people we really want to be there can't make it but we don't want to wait, so we're doing two ceremonies. It may sound odd, but this first is the legal ceremony, and the other will be the typical huge party with everyone who can come.

This wedding will be in a senior's centre (scoping out the future homestead, I guess) in nearby Guelph, Ontario, and will be a fairly casual affair with only our witnesses and the local group of friends in attendance. Having it on a Friday afternoon is difficult for several people, but hey, it's about us.

The second ceremony will be kilts and tartans, self-written vows and self-designed rings, live Celtic music and a black soul singer, and Ring-Pops as wedding favours. There's some heavy Celtic imagery here. We are both of Irish descent - I'm from Newfoundland, one of the most Irish places on Earth outside Ireland, Jason is a Celtic musician who plays bodhran, pennywhistle and flute.

I'm jittery about it, but it's what I expected.
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[Courk]

[Beartalon]

[Courk]

After I can find Ring Pops. I haven't seen them lately, either.

[Beartalon]

[Courk]

My current excuse is that a wedding requires two people.

I was looking for colors that would match what I currently plan on having as my wedding colors. Then I noticed Strawberry Ice Cream. They had better still make those whenever I go to a knot tying class.

Enough hypothetical wedding planning, and back to the real thing.

Are you picking specific colors for your wedding, or is it going to be whatever colors are included in the Irish stuff and the Ring Pops? What are the kilts going to look like? I hear "kilt" and think red plaid, but they can be other colors, too, right?

[Beartalon]

Actually that is hypothetical for now. I need to find my clan or district tartan, but I don't know much about how to do so.
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[Quailman]

Gee. That took almost a minute, but only because I had to find your last name first.

[Beartalon]

Thank you Quailman! Every local Scottish store I went into did not have Bishop in their lists at all since "Bishop is not a Scottish clan or district name." I've looked at many sites online, but not this one.

[Courk]

What's Jason's, then?

[Lepton*]

Perhaps you could use the Newfoundland tartan? It's quite nice, in my opinion.

[Beartalon]

I know now why I coldn't find the Bishop tartan. It was only invented in 2005 and I had given up looking by then.The site Quailman used is Scottish. Ireland also has it's own tartans, by city, region, county or province. My father's family was English. It's my mother's side that was Irish, but since I can't get that information from our geneaology, I may just use the Newfoundland tartan.

The Newfoundland tartan does indeed look nice and may be my choice. My partner's tartan is McAllister (of which there are 6 variations on that Scottish site).

http://www.pch.gc.ca/progs/cpsc-ccsp/sc-cs/o6_e.cfm
"Newfoundland

The Newfoundland tartan was designed by St. John's businessman Sam Wilansky in the early 60's. The tartan has the colours of gold, white, brown and red on a green background. The gold represents the sun's rays; the green represents the pine clad hills; the white represents the cloak of snow; the brown represents the Iron Isle and the red represents the Royal Standard for which our fathers stood."

And here's the tartan itself:
http://www.scottishlion.com/newtar.html
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[wordcross]

that Yukon tartan is.... bright. Newfoundland sounds like a good choice.
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Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

[Logain]

Wanted to add my congratulations to Bearty too!!!

Not too much longer to go for the big day

[Beartalon]

Thanks! I have a case of the "good" jitters and time is moving so slowly.

[Hitchhiker]

Congratulations to you and Jason on your impending entanglement!

[RE*]

Well, it's about time
The good ones are always taken
Was my invitation lost in the mail?

Congratulations! I'm hopelessly romantic, and still cling to the notion that
"someday my prince will come." I'm sincerely glad that you found yours.

[Beartalon]

"Someday my prints will come,
And then the blackmail will begin." - Beartalon

Thank you, Hichthiker and RequiemEternam! To answer your comments:

Well entangled already, or we wouldn't be doing this.
It is about time. It's been almost three years.
Not all the good ones are taken. Some of the delightfully evil are still left.
Some invitations did get lost in the mail.

But all is well. 5 days, plus change.
(5 days, then change?)

[ChienFou]

Congrats Bearty. On balance, after 25 yrs or so, I've decided I prefer being married to not. Hey, that's a pretty positive statement about the institution, isn't it

[Beartalon]

[jesternl]

So how does it feel to be married?

[Beartalon]

Different

[jesternl]

that's what I thought