Vows and Flowers

So here's the guy that's going to marry us. Billy Greer. If I have this right, he's first cousins with Daphne's mother. I think we're going to go with a fairly traditional Christian service. We were able to meet up with him while in North Carolina at the wedding of I think it was his nephew, Joe Burton. I'm glad we had a chance to meet up and discuss what we wanted in the ceremony. I was also able to make clear that I really didn't want someone to read 1 Corinthians 13, the passage that you hear at just about every wedding. It doesn't really make any comment on marriage. Daphne says the French translation is more interesting in that the tense of the verbs is different, it is in the active voice instead of the passive, but I think we can find something to be read that really means something to both of us, I'm sure.

As for the Flowers, Billy's wife Fann has offered to do the arranging. She also did many of the flowers at Joe and Shelby's wedding and they looked great, so I'm sure they will be wonderful. Since we live in Ottawa and can't fuss over the small little details, it has been been important to have people we trust fussing over the things we can't from here. In many ways I've been spared many of the details most grooms just roll their eyes at like table cloths, chairs or flower arrangements.

Comments

[Daphne]

I have to comment right away to say that the flower arranging team is a pretty impressive one, including Fann, my grandmother Issie (a.k.a Mamo), my mom's friend Betty, and goodness knows who else. Mamo keeps mentioning types of flowers to me -- all goes way over my head. I just know that it will be fall colors and pretty. Maybe a maple leaf or two.