Pullman movies? and whimsical weddings

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Tabouli reported:

> the upcoming conversion of the Pullman books (which I 
>still haven't read) into films... by Tom Stoppard!  Well, well.

Wow.  I can't think of too many writers I'd entrust with books I love 
this much, but-- Tom Stoppard!  So far, so good.

> How about the rest of you merry OT types?  Any weird and wonderful 
>weddings you've been to, either your own or other people's?  Surely 
>you SCA types must have a few interesting medieval wedding tales to 
>tell, for example

I am not an SCA type, but one of the first weddings I solemnized (now 
*that's* a verb you don't get to pull out of mothballs too often) was 
for a couple who were, and they informed me that they and many of the 
guests would be in period regalia and asked me whether I'd like to do 
the same.  I said yes on the condition that I got to wear one of those 
tall pointy hats with the trailing veil.  (I asked what a clergyperson 
of the period would have worn, but they said a wedding wouldn't even 
have been performed by a clergyperson, so I could wear what I liked.) 
 It was a blast.  I wish I had good pictures from it.

Other than that, the most unusual wedding I've been involved in will 
be one next February, when the ceremony will take place on top of a 
mountain and the bride and groom will then snowboard down.  I will be 
taking the gondola, thank you very much.

Amy