Couples about Wedding Webpages (Bwedd.com)
Ron & Debbie’s Penny Pinchin’ Page
DMOZ.org – Open Directory Project: Society: Relationships: Weddings: Personal Websites:
Wedding Jokes Marriage Jokes Relationship Jokes – JokeSpin.com
Al’s Wedding Jokes and One-Liners
Romance 101 Presents: Book Suggestions
Lovingyou.com: 1200+ Romantic Ideas
OpenHere Network – Search For Anything!
Type in ‘ROMANTIC IDEAS’ in the Search Query field
PREFACE: For those of you finding this webpage from internet searches … Please feel free to ‘borrow’ any information you find here if it helps you promote your Medieval and / or Renaissance Wedding Website. But Pleeease – post a message to let us know you are doing that! We hope you find both Our Medieval Links Page and Our Costume Links Page helpful to you. The content below was written Prior to our Medieval Wedding August 31, 2002. Thank-You.
Costumes
– You don’t have to buy,
you don’t have to rent – perhaps you have some clothes hanging in your own
closet that might look somewhat like anything in the following sites on the WWW!
Medieval/Renaissance Costumes – For Women
Medieval/Renaissance Costumes – For Men
Somebody’s Medieval Wedding Pictures
Recommended Medieval Costumed Movies
What to Wear – Newcomers Guide
The Medieval Muse – Ladies and Wenches
The Medieval Muse – Knights and Knaves
Ravensmoon Replicas Online Catalogue
The Purple Unicorn HomePage – Renaissance Clothing for All
Silks and Velvets – Historic Gowns, Fantasy Clothing and Corsets by Yosa
Medieval Wedding Theme Page (Clothing Ideas)
By the Sword, Inc. – Online Catalog
The Original Medieval Moccasins – Footwear
Visabella Mythic Clothing Catalog
SacredClothing.Com – A Medieaval Baebe’s Website
Maiden Faire – Affordable Renaissance Clothing Attire
Jewelry: Celtic, Dark-Ages and Medieval Jewelry – By-The-Sword
Renaissance Jewelry, Medieval Clothing, Elizabethan Wedding Headpieces and More!
Victorian Charm Gallery – Main Menu (Catalog)
Medieval Merchants – Clothing, Fabrics & Sewing Supplies
MILIEUX: Online Costume Sources and Supplies
RenMerchants: Renaissance Inspired (Wedding) Attire
LEARNER.ORG – The Middle Ages – Clothing
Sofi’s Stitches – classic gowns, doublets, wench and rogue wear, accessories, and more!
Patterns and Instructions for MEdieval Russian Costumes
Almost Authentic Patterns for Renaissance Festival Garb
strictly to illustrate the various types of costume looks that are around the internet
PREFACE: For those of you finding this webpage from internet searches … Please feel free to ‘borrow’ any information you find here if it helps you promote your Medieval and / or Renaissance Wedding Website. But Pleeease – post a message to let us know you are doing that! We hope you find both Our Medieval Links Page and Our Costume Links Page helpful to you. The content below was written Prior to our Medieval Wedding August 31, 2002. Thank-You.
THE WEDDING PARTY WILL BE COSTUMED UP!!
Costume garb is optional. Be adventurous! We encourage all who wish to DRESS UP for our wedding
follow the Medieval and/or Renaissance styles.
WHAT IS MEDIEVAL? WHAT IS RENAISSANCE?
There is a practical difference between Medieval and Renaissance
(Medieval covers approximately from 4th to 14th Century CE,
Renaissance approximately from the 15th to 17th century),
with of course some overlapping occurring.
However, for all practical intents of our themed wedding,
a mix of these styles is perfectly all right to maintain the general theme of the day.
Medieval dress runs from skirts, blouses and
bodices for ‘wench’ type costuming,
to elaborate gowns with draped sleeves and veiled hats.
For men, woodsman-style vests, shirts and pants
to richly brocaded tunics and hose.
Renaissance tends to more flowing gowns for women
and elaborate coats and breeches for the men.
FRAME OF REFERENCE
What we’re calling the “medieval era” is huge, stretching from 450 to 1600 A.D. The period includes:
The borderline ancient/medieval period (mid- to late 400s A.D.), when Attila the Hun ruled.
The early medieval period (500 to 1050 A.D.), when knights sat at the round table, Prince Valiant was valiant, and Excalibur was lodged in that big stone.
The Middle Ages (1050 to 1450 A.D.), when the Crusades were in progress, William Wallace (a.k.a. Mel Gibson in Braveheart) was taking back Scotland, and Robin Hood was taking from the rich to give to the poor.
The Renaissance (1450 to 1600 A.D.), when Columbus sailed to the New World and Henry VIII reigned in England.
BASIC MEDIEVAL ATTIRE
Basic medieval attire can consist of:
Royalty: the era’s most over-the-top, formal clothes
Merchant: pretty but not showy, indicating modest prosperity
Peasant: casual, carefree, outdoorsy, and largely unembellished
Classic medieval: women in long, slim-fitting gowns; men in tights and tunics
Classic renaissance: women in tight bodices and full skirts; men in tights, breeches, pirate shirts, and lace vests
Remember that simple styles will be most comfortable — some formal
medieval clothes are heavy and confining. Where to find the clothes? Order them from catalogs, have them custom-made, or rent them from local costume shops.
WHERE CAN I GET A MEDIEVAL OR RENAISSANCE COSTUME IN WINNIPEG?
375 Hargrave Street
Winnipeg, Manitoba
R3B 2K2
PH: (800) 823-6706 toll-free
Fax: (204) 943-7013
Ask MIKE to assist you, if you plan to rent from this company.
We are not demanding that you rent (or buy) attire for our wedding.
If you want to join our celebration in theme, but don’t really
want to go full costume .. try a cape, cloak, and hat
or even hairpiece or a wig could be used to add a ‘Medieval flavor’.
There are also many ideas you can get from the internet
to creating your own costume … and don’t worry…. it will look great!
In the links sections, you will see Costume sites .. feel free to
browse and get a better idea of what the clothes looked like in this era
If you browse the COSTUME link there are several
neat-O websites that you can see many examples and types of Medieval and Renaissance
clothing ..
Costumes
– Mike Schiedel was very full of ideas
and well informed about the Medieval / Renaissance style garb effect we are looking
forward for – for the entire wedding party – including ourselves. We will be going
back in early June 2002 for final selection. We are also recommending that if any
of you want to rent costumes, or accessories … see Mike as, he will be familiar with
the many other people’s choices that are also being rented for our themed wedding affair.
OTHER MEDIEVAL / RENAISSANCE LINKS FOUND AROUND THE ‘NET
Medieval and Renaissance Wedding Page
Medieval and Renaissance Marriage
Internet Medieval SourceBook – Full Text
Medieval Wedding Site – Links and Resources
Montanaro’s Medieval Period (and links)
OpenHere Network – Search For Anything!
Type in ‘MEDIEVAL RENAISSANCE’ in the Search Query field
The Medieval Times – News Spanning Three Millenia
The Internet Renaissance Band – Medieval Music (mid,wav)
Musical Inspiration (midi sequencing)
An Index of Classical Music Web Site Links
Sixteenth Century Renaissance English Literature (1485-1603)
The NIXNET Medieval Art History Homepage
Things Medieval in the Modern World (MSN Group)
Gander Academy: Medieval Times Theme Page
Here are all the pictures taken by Derek Smith, cousin to the Bride, on his digital camera.
So, we scanned them all and put them up on our website!!
You can see them here …..
The above link is to our general Photo Gallery. If you prefer a direct link, click on the link below:
If you prefer to sit back and watch a slideshow, in its entirety, I have created this slideshow page for your perusal…. Enjoy!
Here are all the pictures taken by David Sanders, a co-worker of the Bride, on his digital camera.
So, we scanned them all and put them up on our website!!
You can see them here …..
The above link is to our general Photo Gallery. If you prefer a direct link, click on the link below:
If you prefer to sit back and watch a slideshow, in its entirety, I have created this slideshow page for your perusal…. Enjoy!
Here are all the pictures taken by Victor Erickson, our Marriage Commission, on his digital camera.
So, we scanned them all and put them up on our website!!
You can see them here …..
The above link is to our general Photo Gallery. If you prefer a direct link, click on the link below:
If you prefer to sit back and watch a slideshow, in its entirety, I have created this slideshow page for your perusal…. Enjoy!
Here are pictures of our Wedding Invitations we printed and sent to our invited guests. Pictures include the invitation, the RSVP cards, a map card, and a sample of caligraphy we used on the out envelopes. Yvonne did the caligraphy, I licked the envelopes.
For our invited guests that were flying in from out of town, .. we asked our parents to hand deliver a “Welcome to Winnipeg†sheet I printed off of my printer along with a basket of goodies. This way, everyone would be aware what was planned for the weekend, and where to meet for the pre-arranged shuttle busses. It was a weekend to remember!
So, we scanned them all of this and put them up on our website!!
You can see them here …..
The above link is to our general Photo Gallery. If you prefer a direct link, click on the link below:
These are pictures taken by Bette Singer, the Groom’s mother, on her camera. They were taken at the bachlorette party, the out of town parties and the wedding.
So, we scanned them all and put them up on our website!!
You can see them here …..
The above link is to our general Photo Gallery. If you prefer a direct link, click on the link below:
If you prefer to sit back and watch a slideshow, in its entirety, I have created this slideshow page for your perusal…. Enjoy!
There are about 360 “Official Wedding Pictures” taken by photographer Doug Little of Douglas Little Photography. When we were deciding at the time which pictures we liked and wanted to put on the internet, we concluded that we liked some of them, we didn’t like others, others like the ones we didn’t like, I liked Yvonne’s pictures, she didn’t like some of them, Yvonne liked my pictures, but I didn’t like some of them, …. and so on and so on …
So, we scanned them all and put them up on our website!!
You can see them here …..
We broke them up into 10 sections, one for each roll of film, and they are all listed in the order they were taken. They show what our Wedding Day was like. If you prefer to see them by section, here they are ..
If you prefer to sit back and watch a slideshow, in its entirety, I have created a page with background Medieval Music that we played at our wedding … Enjoy!
We got married August 31, 2002 and this was really the basis of this entire website and domain. But, that was then! This is now! In conversion of our website to a blog, all entries that related to our wedding in a Medieval themed style setting.
We had fun! And have created a photo gallery and uploaded many pictures and videos. Click on the Site Map at the top or in the sidebar “Pages” section for specific linked pages.
HART