By Sheena Vernon
Everyone told me that weddings were stressful but I hadn’t realised what this meant until my betrothed daughter turned from being amenable and easygoing to being Bridezilla overnight. However, while we fought over how much the catering, the wine, the dress, the marquee, the band, the yurts and all the other totally over the top accessories were going to cost, there was one area in which peace reigned. Both of us were going to be allowed to be ‘artistic’ when it came to decorating the marquee. My job was to to rusticate glass jars and cram then with flowers that looked sort of meadow like; her’s was to name each table after a Handel opera and dab the paper on which the seating plans were written with tea bags to make it look like parchment. She created a Handelian corner where scores of his sat under where the seating plans were hung. She knew that at the time I was trying to write a novel about a young rake who sang for Handel but this venture was rarely talked about (novice writers are retiring creatures) and certainly had no connection to her own choice of theme for the dinner tables. However, once John Hunt had accepted the novel and the question of cover design came up,I revisited the many photos that had been taken of my daughter and son-in-law’s wedding marquee before the guests arrived and thought what an excellent cover the ‘Handel corner’ she had created would make. My thanks to Ria Mischaal, for allowing me to use one of her photos, and to Stuart Davies, the designer, for knowing what to do with it.
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