The day finally arrived. Time slows to a crawl once you've finished your dress for the ball (but speeds up exponentially if you procrastinate until the day of). We met up at a friend's house to get ready (ribbons, curls, and bobby pins oh my!) and headed off to the ball.
I interrupt this story to suggest that you turn on the Pride and Prejudice soundtrack by Dario Marianelli. Finding the whole playlist would be even better. Okay, you can keep reading now.
But wait! We need to stop at the store to pick up the lemonade!
We get to go shopping in our Regency dresses! xD We ended up going to two stores and buying them out of lemonade.
Responses to our get-ups?
Besides the second glances, stare-downs, compliments, questions about our unusual garb, and a gal helping us carry lemonade to the car, we also caught snippets of funny conversations about us
Little girl: Mommy, why do those people have so much lemonade?
Mommy: Honey, I think they just really like lemonade.
And...
Dude to his friend: Don't worry, you're in Portland now. You're going to see some pretty weird stuff.
And...
Some dude sitting in his car whistled at us.
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| It's not every day that you see a gaggle of giggly girls dressed up in 'unusual' clothing pushing a cart full of lemonade |
So. After our little shopping trip adventure, we were :really: on our way to the ball! It was for real this time. ;) My guesstimates puts the guest total to 200 (just in case you were wondering while looking at the pictures).
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| The littlest dancers |
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| I loved the location |
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| Someone ditched their shoes. The poor lost soles... |
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| Mari's Wedding with a double circle |
One of my favorite moments of the evening?
Gentleman #1 asks me to a dance. Okay, nothing weird there. Part of the dance involved doing an 'orbit' around the set. Still nothing new there either. It's when Gent #1 was 'traded' with Gent #2 (who was nonchalantly walking by) during the orbit. Come in for a two-hand turn, and it's not the person I was dancing with before. Haha! Okay, got me! They then proceeded to trade off during each of the 'orbits' for the rest of the dance. We all had a good laugh afterwards. What I don't know is if it was pre-planned or not. Hmm...
Update: They had plotted the whole thing. They had looked at the dance list to see if it would work with any of the dances, and then they looked for someone who would be able to take the joke.
Venue - Summerfield Farms in Salem, OR
Pictures are from ECD Oregon, Noah Holte, and yours truly
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