President Lincoln-Lilac

[L Verge]

Blaine,

Pardon me for saying this, but I am still laughing over your description of your Las Vegas wedding. What a great time Saturday Night Live could have with that as a script!

And, to be honest, if you had put me through mountain climbing and desert hiking en route to my wedding, I would have been plotting a Las Vegas "hit" and "dump" on you... Then, I would be hearing Elvis doing Jailhouse Rock!

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Linda Anderson, one of the best contributors to this forum, should be home from her weekend trip to Hildene and other sites in Vermont. Therefore, I would like to wish her a VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY today!!! I envy her the birthday trip and hope that she will share some photos with us.

[LincolnToddFan]

(05-18-2014 08:21 AM)Houmes Wrote:  

(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.

I laughed so hard I startled my cat Eartha Kitty...now she is looking at me strangely. But it was worth it, thanks for sharing your delightful wedding story!