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Envelope Please! . . . And the Winners Are

lmoore

Jan 11 |17:28

My dear readers, I am so sorry I have been neglecting you. There are so many things going on at Full Circle Eventi right now, I’m not sure where to start. So I will begin where we left off on Friday. Although I have not reached all of the winners yet, I am going to announce them here.

For the Bridal Show in Dearborn, we have a Saturday and Sunday winner of our Day of Direction Package.

Congratulations

Jessica Gabbara & Mylene Yap

For the Bridal Show at Fern Hill in Clinton Township, we also selected 2 winners for the Sweet as Honey Favor Package.

Congratulations

Cecily Brandow & Heather Clancy

Brides to Be – Round 2

lmoore

Jan 8 |18:57

Hey ladies and gents! I have some exciting last minute news! Full Circle Eventi was cordially invited to showcase again this weekend at the Brides to Be show at Fern Hill Country Club! So if you missed us at last weeks show, you have another opportunity to say hello. We would love to meet you!

And if you saw us last week, stop by and say hello again, we always love to talk to our brides.

Mention the blog and there might be something extra special waiting for you!

See you on Sunday!

And the Winner is . . .

lmoore

Jan 7 |22:48

First of all I want to thank all of you for coming out to see us at the Brides to Be Bridal Show in Dearborn this weekend. Pam and I enjoyed every moment of the time we were there, and met so many wonderful brides with upcoming weddings. We chose to raffle off 2 Day of Direction Packages, one for Saturday and one for Sunday. The winners have been selected, and we are waiting to hear back from both of them before we announce the winner. Again, thanks to all the brides who entered and we look forward to being able to help you in your upcoming wedding planning process. I hope to have the winners for you tomorrow!

Stay Tuned!

12 Days of Christmas ~ Twelve Drummers Drumming

lmoore

Jan 6 |23:27

The final day of Christmas is upon us. I am sad to see this fun little tradition pass, but time to focus now on the upcoming wedding season. So I leave you with the final nuggets of information and images of inspiration for the 2009 Christmas season (yes, I know its 2010 now). It is the last night and what a night for a party! Taking from all the events leading up to this point, Twelfth night is a true Masquerade Ball!

This is a symbol for the twelve tenets of the Catholic faith laid out in the prayer, “The Apostles’ Creed”. The drummers may provide the cadence for reciting this prayer.

“The Twelve Days of Christmas” seems to have become a popular carol in its day without anyone ever figuring out that it really was the profession of a faith that England had made illegal.

With the twelfth day we have reached the end of the song and have arrived at the last day of Christmas known as Twelfth Night on which the partying and feasting continued. Twelfth Night is the night before Epiphany which is the day the three Wise Men, also known as the Three Kings or Magi, from the East arrived in Bethlehem bringing gifts to the Christ child.

By the Middle Ages the drum, which was probably introduced to Europe from the Middle East by knights returning from the Crusades, had become a common instrument. Among its other uses was to combine it with the trumpet to get people’s attention when making a big announcement such as the arrival of the king or the reading of an important proclamation. In this case the drum was used to announce the serving of the next course of the feast.

Among other customs in England as well as France and other West European countries was the making and serving of a special Kings’ Cake for this twelfth night celebration (the practice of making and serving a special King’s Cake survives today in the U.S. as a part of the Mardi Gras celebrations.

The song and the twelve day celebration have now come to an end. But it is not the end of the season. For the day after Twelfth Night is the Feast of the Epiphany, another religious holiday associated with Christmas. While mainly just a religious observance in the U.S., Epiphany is also a day of both religious and secular celebrating in other countries.

While the solstice has passed and the days are slowly beginning to lengthen again, winter still holds the land in its grip. The work of the peasant and noble is light as it is still too early to begin planting while the the cold and continuing short days remain an incentive to stay inside and party. So the party season will continue, with Epiphany and continuing through the season of Mardi Gras up until Fat Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday and the start of the Lenten season.

Adding spice to your life,

Lia

On the eleventh day of Christmas my true love gave to me, Eleven Pipers Piping . . .

On the tenth day of Christmas my true love gave to me, Ten Lords a-Leaping . . .

On the ninth day of Christmas my true love gave to me, Nine Ladies Dancing . . .

On the eighth day of Christmas my true love gave to me, Eight Maids a-Milking . . .

On the seventh day of Christmas my true love gave to me, Seven Swans a-Swimming . . .

On the sixth day of Christmas my true love gave to me, Six Geese a-Laying . . .

On the fifth day of Christmas my true love gave to me, Five Golden Rings . . .

On the fourth day of Christmas my true love gave to me, Four Colly Birds . . .

On the third day of Christmas my true love gave to me, Three French Hens . . .

On the second day of Christmas my true love gave to me, Two Turtle Doves . . .

On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me, A Partridge in a Pear Tree . . .

12 Days of Christmas ~ Eleven Pipers Piping

lmoore

Jan 5 |09:23

We are only two days away from the conclusion of the Twelve Days of Christmas, and it has certainly been an enlightening experience for me to journey through this song. Finding new inspirations for the various boards has also been a lot of fun. So let’s enjoys the final days.

The religious interpretation is quite predictable, and in some ways actually ties well into the other views. Since the eleven faithful apostles who followed Jesus spread his message after his death, there is a natural correlation between pipers, who announce information and these followers. You may be saying to yourself that there were 12 apostles, but remember, only 11 were faithful, one betrayed him.

Sitting around, watching your sheep was a pretty boring job. So, shepherds often would play their pipes. It is believed that on the night Jesus was born, shepherds were playing. There is also a rumor that while Rome burned, Nero wasn’t fiddling, rather playing the bagpipes!

By the 9th century, the bagpipe was the instrument for all medieval celebrations. This music had only one single line of melody, which suited the bagpipe quite nicely, especially for dances called caroles.

At the big feasts held during the holiday celebrations the guests were often entertained by musicians, dancers, jugglers, etc. as well as singing and dancing themselves. Bagpipes and their younger cousins the musette (an instrument similar to a bagpipe but the air for the sound came from bellows rather than blowing into the instrument) were popular instruments for dance music. While we usually associate the bagpipe with Scotland, they were also a common instrument in France as well. In France, the bagpipe was popular as an accompaniment for dance. Many French musicians often played the musette as entertainment for Twelfth Night celebrations. Since Queen Elizabeth I was succeeded by the Stuart kings of Scotland, bagpipes and other aspects of Scots culture were common among the upper classes in England as were elements of French culture due to intermarriage of the English and French nobility.

Bride, photographer W. Scott Chester; décor, Walters & Walters; Scottish horseshoe, The Irish Jewelry Company; bride & groom, Church Times; bridesmaids, Linda Cliford; boutonnière, Dream Time; navy dress 1, House of Brides; navy dress 2, Alvina Valenta; bride and groom, Scottish Weddings made simple; bow shoes by French designer Alexis Mabille,; ring bearer, Photographer: Paul McVitty

And for you who feel cheated that there are no bagpipes in our imagination board!

POPS Extras!