Veronica Vallejo is one of my very dearest friends. We go back more than 20 years!!! We are so thrilled that she has found THE ONE. She is the bride-elect of Dr. Daniel Cano, another native of Victoria, TX, and from what I've heard, one terrific guy! (I haven't gotten a face to face audience with Doc yet, but I did send him a questionnaire in order to determine his awesomeness and compatibility factors. Girls gotta look out for eachother!) Needless to say, he passed with high marks, and we really look forward to meeting the man that my friend has fallen head over heels in love with!
So, back to Emma and Alec's involvement. They will be the Arras. In Spanish tradition, I believe that these are some kind of coins that are symbolic and bring the bride and groom good luck. Veronica, please comment to shed more light on this. Basically, think like little jr. flower girl/ring bearer type duties. All I know is that they are supposed to look cute, act cute, walk down the aisle, and (I'm praying) sit quietly with Daddy and G'ma Wanda through the mass. I never actually said "yes, they can participate in the wedding," because I was concerned about how young they are (they'll be 22mos. at the time of the wedding, Feb. 13, 2010). However, Veronica has been adamant that they MUST be in the wedding...so, they are going to be in the wedding.
She found a few different styles of dress that she likes, and so we went to try those on. The biggest issue is that many of the dresses' smallest size is a 2T. Well, Emmy is rather petite, and I was thinking that we'd be doing good to get her into a size 24mo. There is a pretty big difference between those two sizes, which you can see below. So, here are the two they had in stock for us to try. She was a little tentative with the first one, because she was wierded out by the tiny fitting room with no mirror. I took her out into the open area with the mirrors in the salon, and she got SO excited when she saw herself. But then she just wanted to run and play in her beautiful dress all over the store, which of course, I couldn't let her do. So then, when we had to go back into the tiny claustrophobic fitting room to change dresses, she was not happy, as you can cleary see in picture #2.
I think I'm going to try to hold off until Sept to order something, because then she'll have grown a little more. But, here is my pretty princess in her dresses.
Mom, why are we in this little tiny box?
Mama! Take me back out to the mirrors and the wide, open space!
2 comments:
my emma is so pretty! i laughed pretty hard at alec's politician pose too:)
here is everything you ever wanted to know about arras:
The arras, a tradition which originated in Spain, are thirteen coins, traditionally gold or silver. They may have originally been a symbol of the bride's dowry, an amount of money or property given to a groom by the family of his bride. Though the link to the dowry alludes to the money the bride brings to the marriage, typically the groom in some way presents the coins to his bride. It is said to symbolize that he will be there to protect and provide for her, and also symbolizes that he ("they" in modern times) shares all his worldly processions with her – his wealth is her wealth. The thirteen coins are said to stand for love, trust, commitment, respect, joy, happiness, harmony, wisdom, wholeness, nurturing, caring, cooperation, and peace – traits the couple would want their marriage to be filled with. Tradition also states that the number of thirteen coins is chosen to symbolize Jesus and the twelve apostles.
The traditional blessing given by the priest as the couple pour them into each other's hands is:
“Bless and sanctify your children in your love. May these arras be a symbol of their mutual fidelity and help. Your word says that wealth is “the reward of humility and the fear of the Lord”. We pray that they never forget the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, who said “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” Help them use their resources in service to their family, the Church, and the community. This we pray in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.”
Pretty sure that's more than you ever wanted to know:)
That's awesome. Thank you for the clarification!
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