Next Weekend: Gatsby Goes To Governors Island

Next Weekend: Gatsby Goes To Governors Island - Gothamist

'twould be a great place to wear those white flannels and have a wedding -- tired of black suits, I am...

I've always thought Governor's Island would be a great elopement spot.

Goth weddings - and why not?

I wrote about Vampire-themed weddings (in a less than enthusiastic way) below. But we DID recently have a small Goth wedding - in a cemetary, at dusk, in the mausoleum, surrounded by flowers and evenings birds. The bride carried purple and black flowers, and the invitation said "black casual - because that's all we have". The couple were sweet and poetic, and the bride's JOB is working at a funeral planning company (of course it is!). She said that they like wandering around the cemetary thinking of the lives of the people there, and they believe death is a part of life.

Very Victorian (but not steampunk) and very delightful.

Here are the poems we used:

Ancient Chinese poem, translation #1:
Take a lump of clay, wet it, pat it,
And make an image of me, and an image of you.
Then smash them, crash them, and add a little water.
Break them and remake them into an image of you
And an image of me.
Then in my clay, there's a little of you.
And in your clay, there's a little of me.
And nothing ever shall us sever;
Living, we'll sleep in the same quilt,
And dead, we'll be buried together.

From Adam Bede by George Eliot,

What greater thing is there for two human souls
than to feel that they are joined for life,
to strengthen each other in all labor,
to rest on each other in all sorrow,
to minister to each other in all pain
to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories
at the moment of the last parting?

Couple takes the 17-storey plunge - wall climbing wedding

Couple takes the 17-storey plunge
A Winnipeg couple has taken the ultimate leap of faith.
Claude Labossiere and Miranda Dorno were married Thursday afternoon on the roof of the RBC Building. Clad in a wedding veil and a black top hat, the newlyweds then rappelled down 17 storeys -- a nerve-wracking 200 feet -- to ring in their nuptials.
"We wanted to do something different," Labossiere said. "The opportunity came up with the Drop Zone event and we thought, 'what a great idea!' We have romance, adventure and it's all for a good cause." The couple was part of the sixth annual Easter Seals Drop Zone, joining more than 100 other participants who braved the 200-foot drop.
"We have a diverse group of people. All ages, all abilities. It's really a celebration that anybody can do anything, if they put their mind to it," said Armando Versace, marketing manager with the Society for Manitobans with Disabilities (SMD) Foundation.