Yesterday Jenny, the directress of PHC's "Arms and the Man," married her chocolate cream soldier, and I had the honor of attending the wedding.
The service was lovely: they used the Book of Common Prayer service, complete with the vows originally written by Cranmer in fifteen-something. The pastor footnoted the old-style English with the OED, specifying that "worshipping" in that sense was closer to "honoring," and was not actually idolatry. :-)
For the reception they had tea and scones with jam and cream. There was cake--and no dancing except from the couple--and about fifty PHCers and alumni--and we threw lavender after them. The honeymoon location was a surprise; the getaway minivan just said, "See you in Tahiti?"
At one point the wedding organizer lady announced that the Dragons would now serve the cake. The Dragons were taken aback because they had not known this; the guests were taken aback because they didn't realize the Dragons were the seven high-heeled PHC ladies running about being efficient. :-)
And after, Sarah Lewis had us to her house, to Rivendell, where her most hospitable mother served us cheese and crackers and tea and coffee, and we had a great jaw about all and sundry. Hospitality is, indeed, a great virtue.
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I'm trying to find the original online... haven't been succesful, but have found some interesting stuff. Cranmer apparently just adapted the old Sarum rite, which was brought over from Normandy to Sarum at the conquest. Sarum is the old name for Salisbury, a town by Stonehenge I bummed around in for a few days. Much of the elaborate Sarum Mass and other services was incorporated into Cranmer's BCP, though the Catholics dropped most of it over the years.
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