President Lincoln-Lilac

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(05-17-2014 12:30 PM)L Verge Wrote:  

(05-16-2014 06:25 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  Thanks, Herb! I love lilac and have never seen one of such blue color! Beautiful!

I also love Whitman's elegy:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rPferUNflkg
...whereas Hindemith, well, for me is a bit too depressing:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fx3hpEyUF80

Laurie, what flowers did you use instead?

I went totally out of season and upscale with a big cascade of white orchids with a tinge of purple, white carnations, baby's breath, and greenery - with bunches of green grapes tucked in. I did keep to my yellow and lavender theme, however, with my attendants in lavender with similar cascades of flowers in shades of lavender and yellow with purple grapes tucked in. My flower girl was in yellow with lavender smocking, and the groom and groomsmen wore lavender shirts. The four-tired cake was fantastic with golden sugar bells, white swans, clusters of lavender sugar grapes, and fresh flowers at the top surrounding a silver cross. If I knew how to scan photos, I'd send you some. Beautiful wedding - bad marriage.

Beautiful description. We didn't have flowers at our wedding. We'd spent the summer alternating mountain climbing and desert canyon hiking out west, knowing that when we hit Las Vegas we would get married. We did the deed in a sleazy wedding chapel (no longer in existence) with stained glass windows made out of cheap colored plastic panels you can buy for your bathroom shower door quite reasonably at any local lumber supply store. Oh, and we forgot you needed a witness, so we ran outside and bribed a wino to come in and join the fun. He scrawled his name across our marriage certificate and left. True story.