And, I'm married now. The whole wedding party (i.e., my household -- including the dog) wore matching buffalo-plaid onesies, and I had ordered a Fruit Bouquet, some bundtinis, and Thai for the foods.


Script:::::
B:

Welcome to Jic and Cedar's Wedding. Here's what's happening today. First we're going to do introductions, then talk about how this event doesn't conform to the dominant social narrative, and then folks are going to sign some papers. Someday after COVID is mitigated, there will be a party.
I'm B (he/him), Jic and Cedar's roommate and officiant, and your em-cee for the evening. Jic told me to tell a joke. Did you here about the nuclear reactors who got married? They were radiant. Feel free to also tell a joke when you introduce yourself. We'll start with the wedding party, aka, the people who live here. Jic?

Jic:

I'm Jic, my pronouns are they and them. I spawned half the people who live with me and the other two are marrying me. What do you get when you cross a cow with a trampoline? A milkshake.

Emery:

Hi I'm Cedar, I use they/them pronouns. I'm the one with all the parents, only four could make it here today. Why don't polar bears get married? Because they all have cold feet.

Son 2
Son 3
Remotely:
Son 1
Jic's Mom
Cedar's Mom
Cedar's Mom's Partner
Cedar's Mom's previous husband
Cedar's Mom's previous husband's current wife
Cedar's other partner (and Jic's friend)

B:

So tell us about what we're doing?

Cedar:

What exactly are we doing?

Jic:

We're taking advantage of the government. It's dumb that only certain partnerships are privileged with institutional benefits, but we need those benefits and they're available to us if we jump through these hoops, so, there you go.
What are we not doing?

Cedar:

Conforming to history.

Jic:

Why not?

Cedar:

Because people aren't property. "Traditional" -- by which I mean historically accurate -- marriage is nothing like the dominant social narrative, and marriage by _that_ definition is heterocentric, mononormative, and constrained to only one "success" outcome (and anything else is deemed failure).
Who are these people and why are they here?

Jic:

LOL. We joked about eloping, because the legal part is not the part we're holding near and dear to us. However, because of how society views the legal part, and the scripting that is imposed by our culture that society uses to make people do certain things and feel certain ways about other people doing certain things....

Cedar:

Ugh, the scripts are dumb, but we care about you and we know you care about us, and so we decided to include you in our observance of this formality. It's okay if you hold this occasion as more "special" than we do; your feelings are valid. And really - we are pretty happy about committing to the long-term. So how about we sign some paper?

Sign the paper
High-five to seal

Hey, so when all of this COVID stuff is well-managed, what do you wanna do for the reception?

And, apparently the reception (or a reception) will be in Victoria after I get a passport.