The invitation on the mantelpiece isn’t to a wedding but a 60th birthday party. The venue is the Hat and Feathers – and so is the theme. I have no idea what to wear but I doubt it will be a hat. I didn’t even wear a hat to the daughter’s wedding.
And speaking of hats and weddings ….
The last book club meeting was hosted by one of the two soon-to-be mothers of a bride. So soon, in fact, that the wedding was taking place a mere three days after we met to pull Dave Boling’s novel Guernica apart.
Those of us whose heads weren’t full of timetables, manicures, providing lunch for the bridesmaids (it’s a late afternoon affair) and so on were astounded that anyone whose head was could still a) entertain and b) think about books.
But the most astounding thing of all – to me, at any rate – was to learn that as the mother of bride was, in a very short space of time, to fly halfway round the world to become a mother of a groom, she was planning to Fedex her very expensive wedding hat to Australia.
4 comments:
My heart rather sinks when I get an invitation and told how to dress. Not a style (black tie etc) but colours, something specific or, god forbid, fancy dress. You feel a killjoy if you don't join in but awkward if involves wearing something you aren't comfortable in. Are the men supposed to wear hats or feathers too?
I think so - which is why I chose a manly kind of hat for the illustration.
Gosh, I've never thought of how you'd travel far with a delicate hat. You'd even need a reinforced hat box for the Mother of the Bride hat. It looks like the wedding might have been and gone. Did the hat arrive safely?
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