Apr 19
The Year of the French!
This is turning out to be the year of the French.
- In a couple of week’s time I’m flying out to the Limousin area of France for the week-end to conduct a wedding for a Scottish couple. Being France, of course, this will not be a legal wedding, that is going to take place at the Town Hall (Mairie) in the early afternoon, performed by M. le Maire complete with his sash of office!
M. le Maire - complete with sash!
A humanist ceremony will follow at the couple’s home – outside if the weather is good. This should work out well, as the venue is only about 45 minutes from my own home in France, so I’ll have a whole day to myself before I fly back to Edinburgh. To be fair, it’ll be almost two days, as the Ryanair flight doesn’t leave Limoges until about six in the evening.
- Later in the year – just happens to be July 14th – France will come to Glasgow when I’ll conduct a legal ceremony for a couple who live in Paris. The Groom is French, the Bride, Scottish.
- Arrangements seem to be going ahead for a third wedding with a French connection – this time it’s planned for next year, and again the Groom is French and the Bride, Scottish. All three of these ceremonies will have French guests attending, so I’ll need to include a fair bit of French for the ceremony to make the guests feel welcome, so I’ll have to prepare that carefully so that I don’t commit and gaffes, or I should say faux pas! Fortunately I have a French colleague at the University, so I think I’ll try to enlist her help to check over my French text just in case.