Madadh Allaidh de Doineann's and Aingeal Faire's Wedding Page
Well met,
Welcome to my wedding site, it went online October 5, 2000, we are currently under construction, please check back soon.
Keep and open mind while reading this, there were many wonders that occurred, not just the joining of a man & woman before the eyes of the Gods.
I am assuming if you are here you already know me. If not my name is Madadh Allaidh de Doineann and my husband is Aingeal Faire. This is our wedding site meant to be viewed by friends and family or people who stumbled on to my other website and wanted to know first hand what a pagan wedding was like.
I met Aingeal Faire while going to school, his roommate was going to the same school I was and didn't have a car, so Aingeal Faire was giving him rides. I knew Aingeal Faire for at least 6 months before we ever went out. We started going out by accident, I was meeting with a friend at a popular coffee house in Tempe, when Aingeal Faire came walking by. My friend invited him to sit down, and we all started talking. Well, it began getting late, and my friend decided to play match maker (I don't know if this was really her intent or not). She called the young man she was interested in and I got roped into double dating to a movie, Godzilla of all movies!
Aingeal Faire and I exchanged e-mail addies, got engaged, and the rest is as they say history!
Now we finally set the wedding date, and were not going to move it come the sea bursting its bounds nor the earth opening up. You see we have had at least 5 different wedding dates that had been cancled for one reason or another. The latest set back was the Aingeal Faire was layed off of his former job, and we didn't have enough money to throw a wedding together.
Not this time we were going to do it. We decided that the wedding was going to be a camping trip and we would just invite close friends. So we told every one when the date was; September 23, 2000. Our friends cleared their calendars and we were off into the north country of Arizona, Payson.
We ended up having to set up camp at night. I have been camping before, but never with a tent, I was quite proud of myself when I put our tent up for first time. We got all set up and sat around the fire, and one of our friends told us about the Fire Faerys.
You know those sparks that fly off the fire? Well those are Fire Faerys, and the fire is their home. They fly off and if you are standing to near they will bite you to warn you that you are to near to their home, and you could get hurt. (This story was originally told to keep an inquisitive little girl from getting to close to the fire.)
The men folk stayed up and bonded into the wee hours (3:am) we women folk went to bed.
We were camped next to a stream. One of our party told me the next day we had been visited by mermaids (not such a strange thing if you know your Scottish Myths). He said that he could hear them talking, the water had been carrying their voices. When I went down to the wedding site to set up the altar, I found crawdad parts from where the mermaids had been eating them the night before.
On the way back and forth to set the altar up I saw a robin in the same place 3 times, I had always been taught by my grandmother that robbins were good, and studying Druidry I took the sighting as a good omen. I got the altar all set up and then went back to camp for lunch.
When Aingeal Faire and I cam back to rehears there were a bunch of folks camping with in eye and earshot. They quickly packed up and left when we whipped out the athames and issued the challenge to each other.
Well, it was almost time, I went back and put my outfit on. The outfit is suppose to be some sort a Asian attire, but it looks like a designers rendition of something Asian. Anyway, it had no sleeves. I was very nervous, not about the wedding, but about my tattoo of a dragon on my left arm that my parents had never seen. EEK!
My parents arrived right on time, and once they were settled in their spot to watch the wedding the first thing my mother said to me is, "I hope that isn't permanent." I then mumbled that it was.
Aingeal Faire and I took our places out side the circle, and the proceeded with the wedding. (please see the wedding ritual for the text of the wedding). When it was all over I passed around our guest book for everyone to sign.
Pagan weddings are different in that it is much more of a family affair. First it was a potluck, and everyone was hanging out in their camping grungies. Kids are free to play in the dirt, people are much more at ease. No one stood and talked about how marriage was such a great undertaking for 30 minutes. We had that summed up in 3 by issuing the challenge! I had a wonderful time, and I hope everyone else did too! I hope to do it again next year for our first anniversary!!