The Bohemian Embassy

🌈 Where bohemia meets academia 📚

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💜 Bridesmaid — Via Osgood Strong — @strong.via
💜 Bridesmaid — Laura Styler — @AwakenYourPower

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The Bohemian Embassy Weddings Book I: The Harvard Library Wedding Album ♥️

BRIDE & GROOM
👰🏻‍♀️ Bride — @JuliaAllison
🤵🏼‍♂️ Groom — @ProfessorNoahFeldman

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WEDDING PARTY
🧜‍♀️💜 Mermaid (& Maid of Honor) — Starielle Hope — @StarielleHope
💜 Maid of Honor — Cailleach De Weingart-Ryan — @CailleachDe
💜 Bridesmaid — Annie Lalla — @LallaBird
💜 Bridesmaid — Natasha Martin — @NatashaMartin2020

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The gown changed how I felt: I felt like a BRIDE. And it kept bringing me back to what I *most* wanted to remember: “This is a wild & sacred day that will never come again.”

♥️

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Even needing other women, sisters I have loved for years, to support me felt symbolic: we do not cross the great thresholds of life alone.

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Between the corset, heat, nerves & sheer weight, I was so worried about fainting that I brought smelling salts. (Which I actually used!)

But all of that was a feature, not a bug. The more unlike ordinary life this day became, the more meaning it held.

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The Bohemian Embassy Weddings Book I, Ch. IV: The Gown♥️

There are very few moments left in modern life when an ordinary person gets to dress ceremonially (too few, IMO), to wear something gloriously impractical because the occasion calls for it.

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The finished concoction was so big-big that I couldn’t do much without help. My bridesmaids had to arrange me inside the gown, carry the train & eventually unleash me from its satin confines.

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As I climbed the steps, I turned to the crowd & shouted: “TRUE LOVE IS POSSIBLE!” (It is.)

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The Bohemian Embassy Weddings Book I - Chapter III: The Wedding Morning ♥️

I woke up at 7 a.m. The weather had been miraculously taken care of (thanks to my frantic prayer & a strategically placed rosary, perhaps?), but I was nervous.

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My childhood best friend Natasha rode w me to the library as “Going to the Chapel” played. We arrived, bridesmaids waving, crowd cheering. My ♥️ exploded.