A tudor wedding

Yesterday saw me travelling to huntingdon (IIRC) for the marriage of aendr and hsenag. It was tudor themed to a large extent taking place in a tudory house and having tudor musicians playing for the ceremony and as entertainment later in the day. Also the musicians actually showed us some tudor style dancing and taught people the moves. I passed on that one.

I'd actually forgotten that aendr was going to be wearing a tudor dress for the wedding so it was a nice surprise when she came out wearing it. The ceremony was short and sweet. As all weddings are it was lovely and the pair really looked like they meant it and were really happy. And of course nervous. I have to admit that I was quite glad the ceremony wasn't too long since the seating was a bit cramped. Given this was my only complaint of the day though I think that is pretty good if its the only one.

Drinks and photso happened after that and dinner and then after dinner. Lots of chatting to people was done and I felt a bit like 4 weddings and a funeral as I caught up with people I hadn't seen since the last wedding. Kami also let me play with his camera during dinner. A nice big digital SLR type thing I think with big flash on top and other such clever stuff. I took some scarily big photos with it and learned about the importance of flashes and stuff. I got quite attached to the camera and was quite upset when tim finally packed it up for the last time that night.

The main evening entertain was our band of travelling musicians who taught people how to dance tudor style. It was very much like barn dancing in many ways. some dances seemed almost schoolyard style as a big chain of people wove their way around the room (also very reminiscent of the computer game "snake"). this chain wove around and then at one point start weaving under the arms of some of the people earlier in the chain. It looked like it was getting very messy at one point. :)

Other dances were a bit more like modern dances with couple dancing around but very much more formalised style like you might see on TV. And then circle dances where everybody is in a circle and dancing around and jumping around like mad things. I kind of wish I'd joined in more in hindsight but I have been complimented for the photos of dancing I took which makes me happy.

I did keep getting flash backs to Albion for its tudor setting, floralaetifica who I seem to recall has done some of that kind of thing and quisalan who I remember making tudor-ish clothes for Kentwell re-enactment.

Some photos can be found by going to http://www.earth.li/~kami/photos/2007/2007.02.24.wedding.html and the ones of the dancing there are by me. I think that's numbers 36-43 if you look at the urls for numbers.