{"id":508,"date":"2018-09-10T18:24:21","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T18:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quizzical-morning.flywheelsites.com\/dawnrees\/?p=508"},"modified":"2018-09-10T18:24:21","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T18:24:21","slug":"a-quad-bike-a-teepee-and-a-bilingual-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/humanist.org.uk\/dawnrees\/2018\/09\/10\/a-quad-bike-a-teepee-and-a-bilingual-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"A quad-bike, a teepee and a bilingual ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"\"\"\"\"The teepee was divine. Huge. Yet intimate too. \u00a0Standing there in the \"\"middle of one of Martin’s fields. A rush-mat walkway lit by lamps. And a straw-bale maze for the kids to one side. \u00a0Inside, a bar, seating for the guests, tables and chairs for the meal, a cake table, a dancefloor, a stage. \u00a0I wanted to move in. It was perfect.<\/p>\n

Even luxury loos outside…… \u00a0but, I digress.<\/p>\n

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Jack, Kayla and I met early this year. \u00a0It was cold. I lit the woodburner. Jack sat under a blanket. We talked a lot about what they wanted for their ceremony. Kayla cried (she can’t help herself) and Jack was helping by comforting her and whilst doing so made her cry more because being loved and in love is a lachrymose experience! (note to self, have plenty of tissues on the day.)<\/em><\/p>\n

Jack is German. Kayla from a farming family in Suffolk. The wedding was on her dad’s farm. \u00a0She arrived on a quad bike bedecked with hops, as was the stage and the bower. It all looked gorgeous. But not as gorgeous as Kayla. You’ve heard the term ‘radiant bride’ – well her smile lit up the teepee.<\/p>\n

I tried out my German during the ceremony – many moons ago I lived in Switzerland for a while – \u00a0and am very grateful to my friends Hetty and John for their corrections to my pronunciation!<\/p>\n

Jack’s mum read in German and English from Kahlil Gibrhan ‘On Love’. \u00a0Steph read ‘He’s Not Perfect’ by Bob Marley, which had everyone laughing as Jack feigned shock and horror at the preposterous idea of not being perfect. \u00a0Then Julie read from Corinthians – a very loving and tender reading. And yes – from the bible – but it was the sentiment that she wanted to express \u00a0\u00a0Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant<\/span> or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;<\/span>\u00a0<\/sup>it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.<\/span> \u00a0<\/sup>Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Jack and Kayla are in love. Their love was like a shining beacon on Saturday. \u00a0They both fought tears. I supplied tissues. To them, and to the guests, as we went along. \u00a0Tissues disappeared up suit sleeves, into handbags, down the cleavage…….. only to reappear a couple of minutes later. \u00a0Jack and Kayla were able to say what they wanted to one another – their vows kept secret until the day. \u00a0It was beautiful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The teepee was divine. Huge. Yet intimate too. \u00a0Standing there in the middle of one of Martin’s fields. A rush-mat walkway lit by lamps. And a straw-bale maze for the kids to one side. \u00a0Inside, a bar, seating for the guests, tables and chairs for the meal, a cake table, a dancefloor, a stage. \u00a0I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":369,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,3217,764,1,3907],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrating-relationships","category-humanist","category-non-religious","category-uncategorized","category-wedding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanist.org.uk\/dawnrees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanist.org.uk\/dawnrees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanist.org.uk\/dawnrees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanist.org.uk\/dawnrees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/369"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanist.org.uk\/dawnrees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/humanist.org.uk\/dawnrees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":534,"href":"https:\/\/humanist.org.uk\/dawnrees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions\/534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanist.org.uk\/dawnrees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanist.org.uk\/dawnrees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanist.org.uk\/dawnrees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}