What has been your biggest surprise in an Open Space annual meeting?

[Funda Oral]

OK Michael,  i will let you (and the list) know when i start looking for an
OS wedding facilitator.
Thank you,
Funda

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pannwitz, Michael M" <mmpanne at boscop.de>
To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 5:17 PM
Subject: Re: What has been your biggest surprise in an Open Space annual
meeting?


> Well, in case you are looking for a facilitator for your next
> wedding, Funda,
> I am game
> and I know that there are others on the list that have facilitated
> open space weddings
> but also
> open space birthdays
> open space funerals
> ....
> ....
> Greetings from Berlin
> mmp
>
> On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 15:45:26 +0300, Funda Oral wrote:
>
> >Why are weddings
> >such wonderful things?!  They are, aren't they?.....Therese
> >
> >I didn't support weddings for sometime after getting divorced but now
> >i am having fun again. I liked the idea of self organized wedding
ceremony.
> >
> >Funda
> >
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message ----- 
> >From: "Therese Fitzpatrick" <therese.fitzpatrick at gmail.com>
> >To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
> >Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 4:02 AM
> >Subject: Re: What has been your biggest surprise in an Open Space annual
> >meeting?
> >
> >
> >Felicidades y buena suerte, Fremy. . . y a su esposa nueva, tambien.
> >(I hope I have correctly recalled that you are a Spanish teacher.)
> >
> >Last August, we had a wedding at Spirited Work.  The bride and groom
> >had gotten unexpected advice from their immigration lawyer to marry as
> >quickly as possible just a week before SW/August 2004.  They asked me
> >what i thought of a SW/open space wedding because, as the bride put
> >it, if someone was going to find something wrong with a wedding at SW,
> >it would be me.  Could that mean she considers me querulous?!  I
> >immediately said yes and pointed out that the wedding would be in open
> >space and only those who wanted to come would.
> >
> >We had a regular SW weekend, with a Thursday evening circle and then
> >we opened the space on Friday.  The bride posted a topic that Friday
> >morning on planning the wedding for Saturday evening, which was just
> >fine because we pretty much always had a party of some kind of
> >Saturday.  A bunch of folks got into the wedding planning.
> >
> >I threw an all girl sauna party Friday night in lieu of a bridal
> >shower.  The men disappeared that Friday evening so they did not see a
> >few women prancing in the woods au naturelle late into the night.   A
> >few people that were not a part of the SW event turned up after our
> >regular Saturday night dinner just to come to the wedding.  There was
> >cake.   There was bubbly.  Flowers all over the place.  The whole
> >event was self-organized by the people interested in organizing it and
> >the rest of us just showed up.  And there were 'regular' marketplace
> >sessions throughout each day. . . just some of the sessions were about
> >wedding.
> >
> >A few folks felt that a wedding didn't belong at SW so they did not
> >attend the wedding that Saturday evening although they came down later
> >for the dancing and drumming.  We almost always had drumming and
> >dancing on Saturday night at SW, with or without weddings.  As a
> >matter of fact, I don't think our party looked very different than
> >usual.
> >
> >Thanks, Fremy, for telling us about your wedding.  Why are weddings
> >such wonderful things?!  They are, aren't they?
> >
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