Humanist Weddings in Perthshire: Lothlorien Calling

Monday 25 September 2017

Lothlorien Calling

Now, lots of my weddings are fun, and lots of them are really emotional, and some are really simple, and some are fancy and complicated, and many of them will have a colour theme or theme that we use to help write or unify the ceremony (scouting? gardening? hiking? football?) that I will happily - and often enthusiastically - go along with.
However, I've only dressed up - as in fancy dress - three times.
Once as a medieval lady for a Robin Hood themed wedding. I really wanted to be Friar Tuck, but there were too many of those going already - and it would have been a bit dodgy for me to dress up as clergy anyway.
I also got all dressed up for a full on Edwardian Wedding, up at Guthrie Castle, where all the guests looked like the cast of My Fair Lady, and played croquet on the lawn afterward. I carried off the School marm/Mary Poppins look rather well I thought...black cummerund and white starched shirt that buttoned up the back, and of course a cameo broach at the throat, and button boots.

THEN...

I got to go a bit LOTR for Rab and Kelsey's do, up at the Mains of Taymouth.
It wasn't just the outfit though, we wove bits from the books and lines from the movie into the ceremony, and yes, we asked the best man to "Bring forth the rings" and then sent them off with "the good wishes of men, dwarves, elves and all free peoples".
The tables were named after places in Middle Earth, they cut the cake with a proper sword and the decor was woodland based at every turn...they even had white trees all down the aisle....and afterward, just for the photos, I got to wear Elf Ears!

Special thanks to Rab and Kelsey for being just mad enough to go with this, and for letting me share the pictures with you, and to Cat for lending me the ears and elf coat.

This is me trying to take an 'Elfie (sorry!) with Rab & Kelsey.