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MATERIALS
=========
ocarinae (x8)
old programming books (x8)
djembe (x1)
music stand (x1)
sound-and-light car (x1)
scripts (x11)
CAST
====
SAM - our solemn minister of incredible solemnity
EVAN - a mid-twenties fellow who is engaged to
VALKYRIE - an early-twenties girl
DAVE - EVAN's best man
GIORGIA - VALKYRIE's maid of honour
NINA - a groomslady
NEIL - EVAN's brother, a groomsman
ETHAN - a bridesbro
VENUS - VALKYRIE's sister, a bridesmaid
PAT - a bridesbro/groomsman
JEFF - a groomsman/bridesbro
ANGELA - VALKYRIE's mother
HOWARD - VALKYRIE's father
LYN - EVAN's mother
GORDON - EVAN's father
TRAVIS - roommate
TASKA - roommate
SETUP
=====
The ceremony takes place in the horseshoe-shaped area at the Samuel P. Taylor Redwood Grove Group Picnic Area. EVAN, VALKYRIE, SAM, and the wedding party will arrive 30-60 minutes in advance to set up as follows:
There are two sections separated by the aisle, which extends from the hollowed-out stump to the space between the two trees at back. All guests face the river, such that the sections slope gently down to the stage area at front.
Eight picnic tables are placed in the seating area: two at front for seating and two at back for easier viewing (e.g. by standing on top). These picnic tables also help spatially define the sections and aisle.
Guests sit/stand in the sections, but are explicitly NOT separated by groom/bride affiliation.
In place of a podium, there is a hollowed-out stump to indicate the central point. EVAN's djembe is placed beside the music stand at this point; the music stand has the service firmly attached to it.
EVAN, LYN, and GORDON wait down by the river. The wedding party wait off to the sides with large tomes in their hands, and SAM, VALKYRIE, ANGELA, and HOWARD wait between the trees at the back of the aisle.
There are four seats reserved for LYN, GORDON, ANGELA, and HOWARD at the front of the sections, possibly on the benches. This makes it logistically easier for them to sit down later.
SCENE ONE
=========
SAM, JEFF, and PAT step forwards between the trees, SAM leading with his flowing priest robe and portentous gait. As they near the back benches, the rest of the wedding party enter from the sides to form lines walking up the aisle as in this diagram:
VENUS ETHAN GIORGIA
SAM PAT JEFF
NEIL NINA DAVE
The wedding party chant "Pie Jesu" repeatedly, periodically whacking themselves in the forehead with their tomes:
Pie Jesu Domine, (whack)
Dona eis requiem. (whack)
(Repeat as necessary)
As they pass the front benches, SAM heads for the hollowed-out stump while PAT, VENUS, ETHAN, GIORGIA fan out to the right and JEFF, NEIL, NINA, DAVE fan out to the left. The final position is as in this diagram:
SAM
JEFF NEIL NINA DAVE GIORGIA ETHAN VENUS PAT
except that the lines fan slightly towards the sections.
SCENE TWO
=========
SAM raises his hand. The wedding party place their books at their feet in unison.
EVAN comes sauntering up from the river in his dapper vest/jacket combo, led by LYN and GORDON. As they get to the top of the stairs, DAVE, NINA, NEIL, and JEFF move aside to let them through, then close the line after them. LYN and GORDON step off to the side, and EVAN steps forwards to say:
EVAN: (slaps knee) Mighty fine day for a wedding! I do say...
DAVE walks up from behind, touches him on the shoulder, and gives him the "shush finger". DAVE points down the aisle as GIORGIA speaks in a Navi-like voice:
GIORGIA: Hey! Listen!
EVAN moves back behind LYN and GORDON and they all back up to the left side, allowing the sections a full view of JEFF, NEIL, NINA, and DAVE. SAM plays a drum in time to the opening for Saria's Song, marking the first bar before the wedding party play the melody on their ocarinas.
Following is the melody written in ocarina tabs corresponding to the charts we received:
4,6,7, 4,6,7, 4,6,7, 10, 9, 7, 8, 7, 5, 3, 2, 3, 5, 3,
4,6,7, 4,6,7, 4,6,7, 10, 9, 7, 8, 10, 7, 5, 7, 5, 2, 3,
2,3,4 5,6,7 8,7,3
4,5,6, 7,8,9 8,7,10
2,3,4 5,6,7 8,7,3
(fast) 4,3,6 5,7,6 8,7,9 8,9,10 7867
As they start into the melody, VALKYRIE walks behind ANGELA and HOWARD down the aisle. The melody loops until they pass the front benches, at which point it abruptly ends as SAM raps on the drum three times before placing it back on the ground.
EVAN, LYN, and GORDON move forward to meet VALKYRIE, ANGELA, and HOWARD in the middle:
LYN HOWARD
EVAN VALKYRIE
GORDON ANGELA
LYN and HOWARD embrace, as do GORDON and ANGELA, and then all four parents return to the sections.
SCENE THREE
===========
SAM: We are gathered here today to celebrate the union of EVAN and VALKYRIE. Where once they were disjoint, slowly their intersection grew; now, on this joyous occasion, we complete their overlap.
EVAN and VALKYRIE now read a poem:
BOTH: We remember...
EVAN: I remember the copper-stained waterfall of
VALKYRIE: Yerba Buena drumming against our heads,
BOTH: our arms locked in ecstatic embrace. We remember...
VALKYRIE: I remember the last dusk light over
EVAN: Shoreline as we lay covered in
BOTH: the neon-streaked Bay night. We remember...
EVAN: Falling, screaming, from the sky,
VALKYRIE: Sacramento!
VALKYRIE: Camping along the wind-whipped sea,
EVAN: Albania!
EVAN: Exploring passages through the earth,
VALKYRIE: Bloomington!
VALKYRIE: Observing the great symbol of fire,
EVAN: Japan!
BOTH: An anti-clockwise twist around the old,
BOTH: A straight slow shot across the new,
BOTH: Frenetic hops to every corner,
BOTH: And most of a world still left to see...
BOTH: All these years, all these distances. We have found, at last, a place to meet,
EVAN: a place that, outliving us both,
VALKYRIE: will in turn remember us,
EVAN: our joys, our sorrows,
VALKYRIE: our passions, our thoughts,
BOTH: crossed together under these ancient redwoods,
BOTH: our memory etched deep in their rings.
TRAVIS and TASKA drive the crazy light-and-sound car down the aisle with the two rings attached securely to the top. As it reaches the front, EVAN and VALKYRIE take each other's rings.
SAM: To find your true love is to meet the other side of yourself; to join in the union of marriage is to make those two sides one. EVAN and VALKYRIE will now present each other with rings they crafted in the shape of the M�bius strip, an enduring symbol of this union.
EVAN and VALKYRIE exchange rings, putting them on each other.
SCENE FOUR
==========
SAM: Repeat after me:
We, EVAN and VALKYRIE,
take each other to have and to hold from this day forward,
for better or for worse,
for richer, for poorer,
in sickness and in health,
to wuv and to cherish;
from this day forward until death do us part.
SAM then reads aloud the following passage.
Now you will feel no rain, for each of you will be shelter for the other.
Now you will feel no cold, for each of you will be warmth to the other.
Now there will be no loneliness, for each of you will be companion to the other.
Now you are two persons, but there is only one life before you.
May beauty surround you both in the journey ahead and through all the years,
May happiness be your companion and your days together be good and long upon the earth.
SAM: Do you promise to uphold these vows, protect safety, and continue having awesome adventures together so long as you both shall live?
BOTH: We do.
SAM: Then, by the power invested in me by the Internet, I hereby pronounce you tost and tost. You may now kiss each other.
EVAN and VALKYRIE kiss, throwing VALKYRIE's leg into the air dramatically.
SCENE FIVE
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SAM: As we have joined these two today, so too do we join ourselves. By being here today, we make a commitment to be there for each other, to share in each others' lives, to serve as friends and family to each other.
The wedding party switch sides, each member embracing the person opposite them in the line as they meet in the middle.
SAM: As they have met, we now ask all of you to meet together in the bond of friendship and family.
Now the sections intermingle, embracing each other as they swap sides. (This might have to be led by a few seed people, or mass confusion could result.)
SCENE SIX/CLEANUP
=================
EVAN, VALKYRIE, and SAM sign the marriage licence with their parents (one each) as witnesses.
On the count of three, the WEDDING PARTY along with EVAN AND VALKYRIE leap into the air and shout HOORAY.
SAM makes an announcement to close the ceremony, get everyone on the bus, etc.
Beginning with EVAN and VALKYRIE, the two lines of people join arms and walk down the aisle past the guests. Their parents who served as witnesses collect their other parents on their arms along the way. Once the procession has reached the back, EVAN and VALKYRIE open the tub of snow presented to them and begin pelting their guests with snowballs.
The eight picnic tables are moved back. We pick up any trash left behind before getting into the Mexican Party Bus and heading for the Outdoor Art Club.