A piper piped, the herald called the meeting to order, and, much as we still to today, the bride's procession joined the groom and his entourage in front of the judge.
Unfortunately, I had some problems with my lense (the front fell off), and so there are no pictures of this quite beautiful procession. We rejoin the wedding party after everyone has gathered in the ring.
Rowen's clan name is the Tribe Winged Wolf, a merchant and warrior clan. Siobhan's family is the Donndubhains (Donavans) but her name is lenited because she's female, so it comes out Siobhan ni Dhonnabhain. Now he's a Russian gypsy and she's from Irish middle nobility, so although he is looked upon as lower than her family in Ireland, he'd gosh darn better be pretty wealthy in order to marry her. ;) As you might have seen on his clan's clothing, (if the pictures were better!) there was a lot of gold trinkets and decorations, signaling lots of disposable wealth to spend on stuff like that. The ceremony followed Irish marriage practices at the time.. although Ro did make some of it up (because he can do that and it was funny).
note the dowery trunk in the lower left...
Rowen's mother-in-law to be poses 3 riddles to the groom. I quote the bride:
The last
photograph is Siobhan's mom giving three riddles to Rowen.. He got two of them without
seeing the cards that her family held up in case he got stuck. The last one was a problem,
but he did get it eventually. I think Mom was really impressed anyway. And of course the
King was there, a really nice man who gave Ben (a young cousin) his crown to wear for a
while.
