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Shauna's Wedding
Who: Open to Bulstrodes, Greengrasses, Montgomerys, Puceys, Smiths, Zabinis and their plus-ones
What: Shauna Capper's wedding
Where: Church in Ceres followed by Pineview Hall
When: Saturday 1st August [backdated]
Rating: SFW

Shauna Capper's wedding was an intensely traditional affair. The church ceremony itself was small - family and closest friends only. More distant friends gathered outside the church to greet the married couple when the emerged for the first time. Shauna wore a white dress that looked like something out of the regency era, her blonde hair pinned up with white and light purple flowers. The rest of the wedding party wore robes, so as not to detract attention from the bride. Invitations had clearly indicated that guests should abide by the same rules, and the few women who'd dared wear robes closer to the modern style than the traditional had an instant mark against their name as far as Iris Capper was concerned.

After the ceremony, everyone - including guests who had not been notified of the exact time or location of the church ceremony - was invited to apparate back to Pineview Hall for an elegant 'breakfast'. There was good food, and wizarding wine of a good vintage - with the occasional glass of whisky for the men. There were no speeches, no wedding cake or throwing of the bouquet - none of the muggle traditions that so many wizarding families were adopting nowadays. After lunch, the gentleman briefly retired to the drawing room while the women and children walked or sat in the gardens. While everyone was out, house-elves cleared the tables and chairs away to make room for dancing.