Thursday 13 December 2012

Happy St Lucy's Day!

It's St Lucy's Day, and the third anniversary of this particular blog. So happy blogversary, and may your eyes be healthy and bright. I was going to say something about having a clear vision in life, but the philosopher Bernard Lonergan says "Knowing is not taking a good look," and so Lonerganians avoid sight analogies.

It is also my parents' wedding anniversary, so congratulations to my parents, and also to my brothers and sisters that we all grew up under the shelter of a happy, healthy, functional marriage. My husband didn't, as a matter of fact, so he is living testimony that you can still have a happy marriage yourself even if your parents didn't. But I am not as sweet-tempered as my husband, so I have to give my parents credit for instilling in me habits that come in very useful in married life, like handing out a lot of praise and avoiding any appearance of nagging.

Since this is a girl blog and because I hate suppressing thoughts, I would like to report that my mother's wedding dress was made of white wool trimmed with rabbit fur, and was cut from a Vogue pattern. The skirt came down to my mother's feet and had wide mediaeval sleeves. I don't think showed as much as my mother's collarbones. Instead of a veil (a veil would have looked stupid with wool), my mother wore a rabbit fur headband. She carried a bouquet of red poinsettia. She had a short blue cloak for outdoors. As a winter wedding ensemble, it rocked, and the photographs show my strangely young parents being dusted with snow outside the same church B.A. and I would marry in decades later.

My parents had their wedding on St. Lucy's Day to coincide with the university Christmas holidays, as my Dad was still a PhD student. Awww! They were so cute! (Of course they are still cute, but in a different way.)

8 comments:

Lina said...

That sounds awesome. Photo? I'm getting married this coming February on the frozen Canadian prairie (fellow single ladies, take heart; I'm in my early thirties, he's in his early forties, we're extremely happy, and this was SO worth the wait); and though I managed to find a very beautiful dress with sleeves, wool and rabbit fur it is NOT. Am sorely tempted to invest in a beautiful new wool coat or pretty shawl though.
Happy feast of Saint Lucy, happy anniversary to your parents, and happy blogiversary to you! Seraphic Singles has been a great help to me in recent months and years, so thank you.

Jam said...

Oooo, that sounds like a wonderful dress. Happy anniversary to your parents! (and to the blog)

Urszula said...

Happy anniversary to you and your blog, and to your parents! What a lovely post.

It's also my niece's first feast day, so if readers could pray for her, that would be awesome :)

Mara said...

My parents were married the day after Christmas so they had a winter wedding too! My mom wore her mother-in-law's wedding dress, but she had gotten married in the summer so it was kind of summery. But she did have a bouquet of holly and other wintery plants, and her mom made her a short green wool cape. She also made green and red velvet dresses for all her little nieces, who sang a song during the wedding.

Seraphic said...

Best wishes, Lina! Care to write a guest post on marrying in your early thirties or even--exciting thought--on reading Seraphic Singles and then getting engaged?

Thanks to everyone for the good wishes! I wish I had an electronic photo of my parents on their wedding day, but as yet I do not. My super-tekky brother might, though...

lauren said...

Lina, I would love to read a guest post on this topic! Very best wishes to you. I love winter weddings.

SunnySaffer said...

Lina, Congratulations. But you leave out the most important fact -where and how did you meet????

Lina said...

Oh wow, thanks, everyone!
SunnySaffer, we met through friends, though we'd already been attending the same Mass for some months and simply hadn't noticed each other before. It's kind of a long story though.
Seraphic, I'm very flattered by the request for a guest post, and will definitely think about it. Life at the moment is extremely busy, what with full-time work, Christmas coming up, planning a wedding that is happening in just a few weeks (less than three months between engagement and wedding, good but yikes), and marriage prep; but I have a week off between Christmas and New year's, so will see if I can type up something coherent then.