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Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2017 8:54 pm
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The Setting
The venue was a quiet little park on a Monday afternoon, its low set bandshell a particularly picturesque setting for the photo ops. There's coordinating balloons and flowers, both living and the handmade tissue variety, and paper birds peeping out from carious corners, but that's about it for decoration.
The tables have been moved out of the covered picnic area to make room for a dance floor. They're laden with food, but it's the sort that mostly seems fancy from distance, until you notice the simple ingredients. The wedding DJ, people will find, turns out to be a rented system and an AUX cord, along with the bride's and any guest's cell phone playlists.
It is, in every way, a budget wedding for a young couple that want something more than a trip downtown, but have bigger priorities than putting on a big show for people who don't particularly want or need one.
The invitations, though, the bride was particularly proud of: a postcard featuring Mr. Bitterberry in a tiny bow tie. Somebirdy's Getting Married!
Quote: This is a drabble orp since I can't finish threads like this ever ~ so feel free to post as much or as little as you'd like, at whatever point in the set-up, ceremony, and after party you'd like! Just be sure to create a bolded title for your posts so people know when/where it is in the rp! Your character does not need to know either bride or groom to join, its an open setting and also Free Food
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Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2017 8:57 pm
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Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2017 8:59 pm
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Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2017 9:03 pm
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Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2017 9:08 pm
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Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2017 9:24 pm
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Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2017 8:38 am
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Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2017 8:47 am
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Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2017 12:09 pm
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Larger cold feet, but still cold
Taym starts the morning outwardly calm in his little "don't look at the bride" bubble, although the facade gives way right about the time he realizes for the fourth time that he shouldn't smoke in his suit (which is not a tuxedo, because he has to put his foot down somewhere, and also because a suit can be used later, which makes it practical). It is not an especially expensive suit, but Taym was raised by a pragmatic and business-wise man who had told him that if one had to buy just one suit that it was better to spend more money on a very good tailor than the suit itself, and so he looks... well, nice. He'd even sprung for a barber to trim up his beard since his threats to shave it had been met with dire threats of formal bridal Crocs.
He has a manful shake of the hand for Algernon, self-possessed and easy, but he heads downhill fairly rapidly and about a half hour before go-time he can be found with his head between his knees, fingers laced behind his neck, trying to ward off nervous nausea while Cokie, thrust into the unwanted position of closest-friend-available, awkwardly pats his shoulder and keeps unsuccessfully pleading with her eyes for someone who knows him better to take over. Unfortunately, Taym does not have many friends.
Quote: A lot of mine don't really warrant replies and are there for THE TEXTURE but if anyone wants to have a stab at it feel free anyway lol
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Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2017 12:12 pm
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Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2017 6:53 pm
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oh god no
Those gathered will not hear what Taym mumbles to America as they patiently wait for him to smooth the folded-up piece of paper in his hands, but it basically boils down to: see what I do for you. Some of them may have been in a situation where they've seen Taym have to present information to a group and he is, to put it mildly, not fond of public speaking. He has very large ears and they are growing alarmingly pink.
It is, in short, a significant concession to America and a sign of how much he loves her that he was not only willing to do this but willing to do it on incredibly short notice. He is so softspoken that it might have been lost if the event had been bigger; as it is some in the back have to lean forward to hear. It is an even more significant concession that halfway through he crumples the paper back into his pocket and goes from memory, reaching for her hands instead and trying to hold eye contact, which is something that he finds almost as difficult as speaking in public and that in truth, even here, he can't quite maintain for the entire duration, casting his eyes towards his shoes a number of times.
"One of the first things I fell in love with about you," he says, "is the way you can go anywhere and stubbornly make yourself comfortable. You are fearless and tenacious about making ‘home’ matter, and even though I’ve spent hours trying, I’m not sure that I’ll ever have the words to say how proud and grateful I am that you chose to make your home with me." He pauses, swallows, and a visible tremor runs right down his arms to meet her hands.
"And so I promise to be as fearless and tenacious as I can, too. I promise to do everything I can to make sure that that home is steadfast and welcoming--whether you need a shelter or an anchor or a warm place to be; whether home is a place we go or just the two of us running together. I love you, and I promise that no matter where we go or what happens to us, if we’re together we’ll find a way to make it home. And I promise to remember to say thank you before you say you’re welcome, sometimes, starting right now: thank you. And also you’re welcome."
Quote: i want everyone to know how much i hate liz for making me write taym's wedding vows and i take no responsibility for them crying
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