365 Days of Drabbles, Day One Hundred Forty-Three

[jeriendhal]

For rix_scaedu: “Here comes the bride”

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“You’re being intolerably smug about this,” Melanie said, tapping her stylus against a fang as she looked over the marriage contract.

“What? Groom prices are traditional,” Rolas said, not even trying to suppress his smile.

“Well, up until about four weeks ago I was richer than your family.”

“That was before Mum was granted the countess-ship.”

“I know. I’d say that was most unfair, but you all damned well deserved it.”

“Thank you,” he said.

“I still think it’s a barbaric practice, selling one’s son off.”

“You’re not buying?

She caught his wrist in her paw. “I’m buying. And keeping.”

Comments

[rix_scaedu]

Three cheers! Do we get to throw rice or nuts at the happy cou, of couple? (For fertility, of course. :) )

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Rice would be safer, but nuts more likely (nuts = trees = forest = comfy reminder of species origins). Local peanut equivalents if you're being nice, with jokes about chucking walnuts for couples you don't like. :) Then more jokes about the bride and groom tripping on them as they leave the worship grove.

I'm horribly tempted to see how much bondage I can slip into the ceremony itself, given the traditional vows of submission to one's wife might be supplemented with some traditional rituals for especially conservative services. ^_^

[rix_scaedu]

I know the Romans used nuts, and I think it might have been hazelnuts they used.