Philip Howells
March 2nd, 2010, 08:29 PM
I attended a wedding fair last Sunday at which one of the exhibitors was a Bird Wrangler.
It appears a new fashion has been started by a local soccer player (bear in mind this is Manchester) who's perhaps spent too long watching Harry Potter movies and has maybe too much money in his budget. This is to have a white owl (Snowy Owl?) fly from the back of the church down the aisle with the rings in its beak.
Obviously this means the Best Man has to wear a heavy leather gauntlet over his white suit, though if that was white too perhaps it wasn't too incongruous.
Apart from all the possible mishaps which one could imagine, some of which I suppose one could avoid by not feeding the bird immediately before the wedding, the Best Man wearing a gauntlet must make the steadicam operator feel less conspicuous.
There's a 19th century saying in the UK that what Manchester does today, London thinks tomorrow. I hope for the sakes of my London colleagues it's no longer applicable.
It appears a new fashion has been started by a local soccer player (bear in mind this is Manchester) who's perhaps spent too long watching Harry Potter movies and has maybe too much money in his budget. This is to have a white owl (Snowy Owl?) fly from the back of the church down the aisle with the rings in its beak.
Obviously this means the Best Man has to wear a heavy leather gauntlet over his white suit, though if that was white too perhaps it wasn't too incongruous.
Apart from all the possible mishaps which one could imagine, some of which I suppose one could avoid by not feeding the bird immediately before the wedding, the Best Man wearing a gauntlet must make the steadicam operator feel less conspicuous.
There's a 19th century saying in the UK that what Manchester does today, London thinks tomorrow. I hope for the sakes of my London colleagues it's no longer applicable.