Most weddings I know of do, but that doesn’t mean that there are some that don’t. As long as you aren’t the main bridesmaid, it is a pretty simple job. Just stand in your appointed spot and don’t lock your knees or faint (they recommend standing with your feet perpendicular to each other to prevent that).
Knowing kids that age, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Todd or the granparents have told her but it has passed in one ear and out the other without even registering that she has been told
In the real world “Our Lady of the Lake” is a fusion between Arthurian legend and French Catholicism; referring to Mary. The Lady of the Lake being the one who gives Arthur Excalibur. In my opinion, Dave is referencing the real world “Our Lady of the Lake” but removing the specific religion from it.
….as soon as wrote all that, that could be why Dave chose the name. Or could just be so they could have a church by a lake.
Well, when Selkie was dropped off, she asked Plo Quar ‘Is this church?’ indicating that at that age she knew what church was. And we know they lived in a closed body of water for a while, either a lake or a pond.
The actual bridesmaid’s role is to be pretty, but not as pretty as the bride and be supportive of the wedding. There used to be a lot more involved but modern weddings don’t have bride kidnappings and pitched battles defending the bride.
I didn’t realize that I should have requested a weapon for my sister’s wedding in order to defend the bride. I know feel like I missed out. Child me would have loved getting a quarterstaff to defend my aunt at her wedding.
I never heard of a bridesmaids defending the bride. The best man, on the other hand, was supposed to fend off the bride’s relatives until the wedding was over. You know if Romeo went and kidnapped Juliet to marry her, her family would have been annoyed because they didn’t like Romeo’s family, and her father would have gathered up all his brothers and sons and cousins and uncles and whatever and come charging over to rescue Juliet and kill Romeo. So Romeo would pick his best fighter – his best man – and he would stand at the door of the church to fight off the rescue party until the priest said “man and wife”. Once the priest married them, she would now be Romeo’s wife and would no longer be the child of a Capulet. And her family would turn around and go back home.
The one time I was a best man, I took my duty seriously. I had a pistol in my pocket, just in case her family decided to break up the wedding. 😎
Selkie, you job is decoy: During the early history of bridesmaids, ‘maids were tasked with not only attending to, but also protecting the bride from evil—whether that meant spirits or bandits/kidnappers. In ancient Rome, it was believed the bad spirts would descend upon weddings so bridesmaids wore similar outfits to the bride to confound the evildoers.
Break it down; bride’s maid. You are a maid for the bride, keeping things clean and tidy, running simple errands to take some of the pressure off the bride.
Panel 3 is definitely the time for a record scratch sound effect
Didn’t they have a practice run first?
Most weddings I know of do, but that doesn’t mean that there are some that don’t. As long as you aren’t the main bridesmaid, it is a pretty simple job. Just stand in your appointed spot and don’t lock your knees or faint (they recommend standing with your feet perpendicular to each other to prevent that).
Knowing kids that age, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Todd or the granparents have told her but it has passed in one ear and out the other without even registering that she has been told
…is this a reference to the pond Selkie and Plo Quar lived in before Selkie was given to the orphanage?
In the real world “Our Lady of the Lake” is a fusion between Arthurian legend and French Catholicism; referring to Mary. The Lady of the Lake being the one who gives Arthur Excalibur. In my opinion, Dave is referencing the real world “Our Lady of the Lake” but removing the specific religion from it.
….as soon as wrote all that, that could be why Dave chose the name. Or could just be so they could have a church by a lake.
Well, when Selkie was dropped off, she asked Plo Quar ‘Is this church?’ indicating that at that age she knew what church was. And we know they lived in a closed body of water for a while, either a lake or a pond.
The actual bridesmaid’s role is to be pretty, but not as pretty as the bride and be supportive of the wedding. There used to be a lot more involved but modern weddings don’t have bride kidnappings and pitched battles defending the bride.
I didn’t realize that I should have requested a weapon for my sister’s wedding in order to defend the bride. I know feel like I missed out. Child me would have loved getting a quarterstaff to defend my aunt at her wedding.
I never heard of a bridesmaids defending the bride. The best man, on the other hand, was supposed to fend off the bride’s relatives until the wedding was over. You know if Romeo went and kidnapped Juliet to marry her, her family would have been annoyed because they didn’t like Romeo’s family, and her father would have gathered up all his brothers and sons and cousins and uncles and whatever and come charging over to rescue Juliet and kill Romeo. So Romeo would pick his best fighter – his best man – and he would stand at the door of the church to fight off the rescue party until the priest said “man and wife”. Once the priest married them, she would now be Romeo’s wife and would no longer be the child of a Capulet. And her family would turn around and go back home.
The one time I was a best man, I took my duty seriously. I had a pistol in my pocket, just in case her family decided to break up the wedding. 😎
Mostly stand around and smile.
…while wearing a (usually) hideous dress.
They didn’t rehearse?
Selkie, you job is decoy: During the early history of bridesmaids, ‘maids were tasked with not only attending to, but also protecting the bride from evil—whether that meant spirits or bandits/kidnappers. In ancient Rome, it was believed the bad spirts would descend upon weddings so bridesmaids wore similar outfits to the bride to confound the evildoers.
Break it down; bride’s maid. You are a maid for the bride, keeping things clean and tidy, running simple errands to take some of the pressure off the bride.
That might be too literal. Maid used to mean “young woman” before it was used for cleaner. It’s just the bride’s friends.
“Your job is mainly to wear a dress that looks so ugly, the bride looks like a magical princess by comparison.”
“Oh fors fishes sakes!”