Sounds lovely, LadyJean!

The Quaker wedding ceremony is always something that appealed to me (at least, the liberal, unprogrammed, kind): Everyone dresses in their best clothes, but without needing to resort to buying an UmpteenK dress, or subjecting bridesmaids to horrorific fantasies of the ego. The bride and groom wait until they are moved, and then speak their vows from the heart. All those present sign the licence (a decorative version can be made to hang on the wall, later), rather than a single priest. I never indulged in those girly fantasies about being a princess on my "special day" (I was a princess every day, thankyouverymuch ;-)).

Yeah, like I said before, I think Quakers (like all human beings) have been artistic and musical from the start. There is, after all, that song "Merrily Danced the Quaker," from way back.   I think a few, staunch, die-hard leaders may have tried to do everything the way George Fox did, and frankly, I suspect he was a wee bit mad (aren't we all?).

Does anyone have any ideas why he was so adamant agsainst the arts?