An island wedding
The heavens smiled down on the happy couple today. The exquisite bride wore an ivory, off-one-shoulder sheath dress. She chose to walk with her father along the lane up to the church. Tucked away further up the lane was the Sherkin-style, tractor-drawn ‘carriage’ waiting to take the newly wed Mr & Mrs to the Jolly Roger pub where canapés and champagne awaited after the ceremony. A rather scruffy, uninvited guest with a tear in her eye stood by the side of the road and wished her well as she made her way by, arm-in-arm with her dad. Earlier, I had watched Sherkin’s lanes become a catwalk as stylish ladies in their high heels tottered up the hill to the church. There were men in suits, ladies in fascinators, babies in prams, cows in fields and lots of other scruffs like me who had gathered in the sunshine to watch the style. As the sound of a beautiful voice singing ‘Oh happy day’ rang out across the landscape, I crept away, happy that I had witnessed this lovely island event. May the road rise up to meet them.
Look To This Day
Look to this day:
For it is life, the very life of life.
In its brief course
Lie all the verities and realities of your existence.
The bliss of growth,
The glory of action,
The splendour of achievement
Are but experiences of time.
For yesterday is but a dream
And tomorrow is only a vision;
And today well-lived, makes
Yesterday a dream of happiness
And every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well therefore to this day;
Such is the salutation to the ever-new dawn!
© Kalidasa
Special!!
Thanks for swinging by OMBH and following. I’m so glad you re-discovered my little bit of cyber strangeness… dare I call it cyber heaven?? 😉
Sorry to hear that you struggling with technology and meds and sorry also for missing so many posts…I need to get on top of things!
Very beautiful! And so romantic! I am fascinated with old customs and traditions. We need them as they make life so much more special and meaningful. Generations before us followed the same old customs and traditions. They give us strength, direction, and continuity. Great post, wildsherkin! Thanks for reminding us how wonderful old customs and traditions are!
Thanks Andelieya, they were a young, sophisticated couple so it was lovely to see them take this very simple approach. It just shows that you don’t need to spend a fortune to make it a very special and memorable day. I am sure that the guests will never forget it too! P
Looks like a perfect day and perfect place for a wedding, and your poem is lovely, quite poignant.
Thanks Anna. P
I love the bridal seat with its purple cover, printed with elephants. What a nice counter-point to glitzy, mega high dollar weddings. I love the poem you offered.
Thanks! I first saw that poem on our wedding day as a friend had written it in a card for us. I have written it out for several friends since. I love it. 🙂
Glad you went up to the church to participate in the event on the Island. Bet its kinda noisy on Sherkin tonight. MM ⛪
Hi MM, it’s VERY quiet (well, this end of the island anyway) as the plan was to have a small reception on the island for guests and islanders and then onwards to Skibbereen for the actual reception…so I guess that’s where the party is right now!
Seems a perfect Wedding day for the couple. I have sent your blog link to my brother who loves Sherkin, think I told you before 😉 Hope he will follow you eventually, he’s not an online person like me, but he has seen my gardening blog somewhat !
Cheers,
Catherine C.
Thanks Catherine,
I think some people are either into blogs or they’re not. If and when I ever mention that I have one, I realise that there are people who haven’t a clue what I am on about! Suits me fine as I like to keep a very low profile. 🙂
LOL, bro doesn’t even have a fb page…He’s gonna see all this when he checks it out…lol
He definitely wants to back to Sherkin, so I will let you know when 😉
How absolutely lovely P.
How it must have made their hearts leap to see what weather the day held in store for them this morning . Love those details of Sherkins shells and driftwood decorating the carriage 🙂
The Church looks lovely with the pretty sky background in your photograph .
Happy is the Bride the Sun shines on !
Thank you, Poppy. Oh yikes, just noticed the spelling mistake…and it’s all over those pictures too. Oh well, it will have to stay now. I had a troublesome time loading those images on WordPress today. I have several others I wanted to show, including some nosy cows and a lovely one of the ‘carriage’ arriving but it would not cooperate. The images kept appearing sideways and not in the order I wanted them. Hope you are getting on top of your technical issues?! P
We seem to have been in the same boat don’t we Lol
I think .. but hesitate to say for sure .. that I might have sorted it out .
I hope we get a chance to see those other pictures at some point !
You should have seen how hard it was for me to get the word ‘anonymity’ correct on one of my posts …
Enjoy this rather gorgeous weather the next few days … I know I intend to !
Looking forward to seeing your first images with your new camera! Enjoy the sunshine. P