#handfast

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Soulbonding

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The wedding cake at the handfasting wedding I'm attending

[tylerknott]

Typewriter Series #2489 by Tyler Knott Gregson

[renee-writer]

I Hear You Are Always Drunk in the Afternoon Chapter 26

Jamie slips back in Lambert's house a few hours later. He smiles when he sees Claire asleep in the chair beside her uncle's bed.

"I tried to get her to go to bed. She is a stubborn woman."

"Aye, she is." He walks over and is going to lift her up and carry her to the guest bedroom but, Lambert stop him.

"Can you hold on a minute son. She may wake and I want to talk to you a moment."

"Of course sir." He takes a seat on his other side.

"I need you to promise me something. That no matter how hard she pushes, and she will, it is the Beauchamp side of the family, we are stubborn. Ah, promise that no matter how hard she pushes, that you will stick by her, keep her safe."

"Ye have my word."

"It will get hard after I am gone. She may want to drink again. You are strong enough to handle that?"

"I am sir. Us Fraser's are a stubborn lot too."

"Good. I never had a child of my own but Claire was/ is my daughter. She is the best thing I ever did. Taken her in. I tried to leave her at a boarding school, once. She threw such a fit, I had no choose but to take her with me. It wasn't a proper upbringing for an English lady but, well; I honestly regret none of it. And, I can rest easy knowing she has found someone who loves her as much as I do."

"I do. She is everything to me."

"When will you do the handfasting?"

"Tomorrow."

"Tomorrow is good. I am very tired. I will see you two in the morning."

"Ye will?"

"I will. I will see her settled."

He has found a judge, an official officiate, to oversee the ceremony. He wants it as legal as they can make it, for Lambert's sake. He presents Claire with a simple white dress and surprises her with a kilt. He would like his family here. To be wearing his families tartan and colors. To have a true binding cord. But, they haven't the time. He ken's a week is optimistic. So, simple ribbons will do. It is the Ghaildhig vowes that are important anyway. He had went over them with Claire earlier. She may stumble a bit but will be able to get them out.

Claire stands beside her uncle at the start of the cermony. There is one thing outside the traditional handfasting he has insisted on.

"Who gives this woman to be joined to this man?" The judge asks to Claire's surprise and Lambert's delight. He looks at Jamie through his tears and mouths "thank you' before answering.

"I do." He takes her hand and places it in Jamie's. They join both hands and the judge ties their joined hands together, tying the knot.

"Ready?" Jamie asks her. She nods and whispers 'yes'.

"Tha thu full mo flauil agus. Cnaimh mo chnaimh. Tha mi a tairt dhuaimh. Tha mi a tairt dhuibh mo chorp gum faod sinn dithis a bhith aon. Tha mi a toirt seachad bhair mimo spiohad dhut gus am faod ar beatha a dheanamh."

They repeat the vows to each other and Jamie slips a gold band on her finger and offers one to her to slip on his. She does with slightly shaken hands after they are freed.

"Ye are joined." The judge says. "Ye may kiss if ye wish." They do.

"Jamie, are we married? Really married?" She asks after.

"We can be. All we have to do is sign the certificate. I dinna do it to trick ye. I just wanted to make it as official as possible for yer uncle. Do ye wish to?"

The Ghaildhig

You are.blood of my.blood and bone of my bone. I give you my body so we two may be one. I give you my spirit until our lives be done.

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Jake x MC moments💖

O h w e l l h o t d a m n how to breathe?????

Honeymoon with Jake! Super worthy scene and oh heaven it was steamy af... we were blessed guys! This chapter particularly made me feel lucky that we got to marry him! And everything about that chapter was precious; the ceremony, the honeymoon, the feelings, the gang's picture, our friends, MC's attire, Jake's outfit and the blessed art of him dressed formally❤ in few words, it was an amazing and beautiful chapter

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[lifeinpoetry]

She is the point of any sky.

Vahni Capildeo, from “Handfast,” Measures of Expatriation

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Jamie as the Sassanech Part 22 Handfast

"I can't get married in my dressing gown." Claire tells Mrs Fitz as Murtagh talks to Jamie.

"No lass. Let's get you properly outfitted." They move into the next room, her dressing room. Mrs Fitz hews and hums as she searches through Claire's dresses. "Ah here. Tis perfect." She pulls out a gown of richest ivory. It's skirt is covered in crocheted flowers. The bodice cuts straight across and hangs cery low.

"If it will fit." Claire says with a frown looking down at her chest. It has grown in pregnancy..

"We will make if fit. After all lass, ye shalln't be wearing it for long."

Claire blushes as Mrs Fitz pulls the dressing gown off and helps here get into the gown. She does have to adjust the bodice a bit. Her breast hang over the top a little. She then arranges her hair so it falls shiny and thick down her back. Maiden's hair for her wedding.

Jamie's mouth drops open and stays that way. She is a vision. Absolutely stunning. Murtagh nods with approval and Willy swallows hard.

"Claire you are so beautiful." Jamie whispers.

"Thank ye. Ye are too." He wears a kilt and the standard linen shirt. But someone(Murtagh?) had added a plaid of Fraser colors as well as a brooch. She walks closer to see what it was and smiles.

"Je suis priest. I am ready. The Fraser motto. Are ye ready lad?"

"I think I have been ready since I laid eyes.on you Claire."

"I told the lad he needs to marry ye under the Fraser name. Ye both need to stay Scottish, ye ken?"

"Are ye okay with this Jamie?"

"I am. It os the name of my mum's kin after all."

"Okay. Join hands. Face each other. Say whatever it is ye wish to say to each other." Murtagh instructs.

"Claire from the moment I dropped into your life, I have wanted no one else. I knew I shouldn't. That it was complicated. But, I still wanted you, a future with you. I thought I knew love before but I didn't, not until my eyes meant yours. I love you Claire Elizabeth Mackenzie-Fraser. My wife."

"Jamie, I didn't ken where you came from and why ye dropped into me life. I thought life was complete. That I would be married to one of me clansmen have bairns. Maybe.not a life full of love, but.okay. until you. I ken'd from.our first meeting that ye would turn me world around. And.ye have. I.ken whatl ove be now and won't go back to a life without it. I love ye, James Alexander Beauchamp Fraser. Me husband."

Murtagh draws the dirk hanging from Jamie's belt. He had warned the.lad as Claire was getting prepared so it wouldn't be a shock. Jamie presents his arm, his eyes still locked on hers. Murtagh draws the dirk across his wrist and then does the same with Claire.

"Repeat after me lad."

The Gailec words stick in his throat but he forces them out as Murtagh tightly binds their wrists together so the blood can mingle. They flow more easy from Claire's lips. And it is done.

"Ye be married. Now treat her right Sassanech."

"I will." He directs to him before turning to his wife and.claiming her lips.