Already the veil has been tucked away as a memory, beneath the cards we couldn’t fit on the mantelpiece and the notes received once the invites were posted. Still, the leftover cheesecake is still fresh in the fridge and sausage rolls on a platter still sit on the table at my mother’s, ripe for plucking in pass-by swipes of the dining room.
The band is the only sign that anything is changed. That you are no longer my fiancee, but now my husband, promised in paper and witness to love and honour till death do us part. Our world falls quiet in the sleepy aftermath and we are able to return to us as we were, as we wish to be…
Wedding season blooms
gypsophila and roses
sudden, sweet, fleeting.
Things have been a little chaotic over the past couple of weeks in my household so I’ve not been as active as I would like with the DVerse prompts. I feel I have a good excuse though. On Saturday my fiancee and I tied the knot.
I’ll admit that I’m quite glad to have all the planning behind me now and some peace and quiet on the horizon. It’s was a perfect day and a wonderful event, but sometimes it’s nice to be able to sit back and not have anything to worry over.
Carol J Forrester 
Congratulations! Fittingly non-traditional kigo. Pass over a few of those sausage rolls.
Haha, I’m afraid I’ve laid dibs on most of them. :p
Meanie! 😛
Congratulations on your marriage! And congratulations on having it behind you 🙂 This is a outrageously wonderful unconventional Haibun – so clever and unique! Your wedding is a sudden, sweet, fleeting season that will blossom over and over. Thank you for sharing your photos as well! (That DRESS! Wow!)
I’ll admit that the corset was causing a few problems by the end of the night and I was glad to be out of it in the end but it did look fantastic and I felt amazing wearing it. (I almost tripped down the aisle but no one really noticed).
Stories to save and savor! Also, brides posses a magical something that makes them perfect and faultless 😉
Oh .. I cheer for you and your husband… a wonderful memory.. and midsummer wedding has to be the best there is… Perfect.
Thanks Bjorn. We had fantastic weather (unusual for England), and made use of lots of in-season foliage and flowers from friends’ and family’s gardens. It was just perfect.
Congratulations and best wishes! Beautiful joyous photos. Love that “pass-by swipes of the dining room” image 🙂 And oh my yes………time to just be two now, without the worry of the many. Enjoy!
Congratulations! Love how you chose the moment when all the to-do is over – the deed is done – and now life together can begin.
Congratulations on your marriage! I love the photos and your haibun and haiku are great!
Such clear images of the aftermath of a party and a surprise happy ending. Glad you let us share your happy event. I loved this.
Nice kigo twist with wedding season. I liked the thought expressed in this sentence: “we are able to return to us as we were, as we wish to be”.
Congratulations and a lovely Haibun as well!
How beautiful! Love the photos and the Haiku. Hopefully the wedding will outlast the flowers that are so short lived. Congratulations!!
Dwight
Congrats! I LOVE the dress!
Congratulations!🥂
LOVE-ly haibun. Congratulations, Carol!! Happy for you…and nice to have extra cheesecake too.
Congratulations to you and your new hubby ~ Wonderful photos and you can now sit back and enjoy the peace and calm after the wedding ~
Love this! Love the images and writing.
Congratulations to you and hope for a long and happy life together!
Congratulations!
Congratulations, Carol! I love the haibun and the photos. It looks like you had a wonderful day.
We did have a wonderful day. It was fantastic.
So appropriate for the season.Congrats!
Thank you Kathy.
Oh, what wonderful news, Carol! Congratulations! I was not one to plan and not even one for the whole hoopla of the union of my own. Though it turned out to be a fine day, I was relieved and felt free once it was done. In this poem you captured well the quiet of a party’s aftermath. I liked the detail about the veil. Best wishes to you and your husband!
Thank you very much. I loved the day but it’s nice to have some peace and quiet now.
Congrats, Carol. Wish you much happiness, and more cheesecake!
May there always be cheesecake. 🙂
Congrats! 🙂
Thank you 😀
Congratulations!!! And nice haiku to boot!
Thank you.
A perfect post of celebration! And may your future together be full of them. (K)
Thank you very much. 🙂