Re: Actual Miss Manners Column

["Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols" <sjvn@access.digex.net>]

Ah, the old conflict between wedding as public uniting of families 
v. wedding as a public uniting of individuals reappears in SCA  
guise. It's as old as marriage, and neither Miss Manners or anyone 
else, is going to come up with a solution that will make all happy. 
As for me, I left home at fifteen and have little sympathy with the 
family position. For those of you who are attached to families and 
forsee a SCA wedding in your future, be ready for angst and conflict. 
Don't worry too much if you offend your families though, you'll only get 
your own back in a few decades when your children refuse to go to 
those "stupid, funny costume events with you." Ah, sweet mystery and 
frustration of life in the current middle ages and beyond.

Alexii

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