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We can be heroes, just for one day!
Thats probably how the Georgians roll: They're wearing jeweled crowns.
And another wedding custom is sharing wine from a silver cup (piala).
Vows are spoken and the couple circles the sanctuary three times.
When I asked a Georgian friend of mine about their customs he told me that the traditonal dances, are still a very important part of the ceremony too.
Even today they perform a traditional dance like this.
I would need a lot training though to get my feet moving that fast.
Oh my god, they look like so much fun!
Liv would love to wear a wedding crown, maybe not the traditional one,
but a feather one would do.
So lets be king and queen, just for one day!
It really was time to do another world wedding tradition post!
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I have been tossing up if I wanted to share Faye's birth story with the world or to keep it private.
It's her story too, after all...
But then I remembered how much I had been empowered & inspired by all the positive birth stories that other women had shared. Sharing these stories feels very important to me, especially since there are always so many horror stories being told about birth.
One word upfront: I wrote this story down when it was all very fresh. Lying in bed, typing it with one hand on my phone. It has not been edited nor been creatively written. It just the words as they came to me at the time. Real and raw...