#receptions

[chasingrainbowsforever]

~ Green and Gold ~

[princesscatherinedaily]

The Princess of Wales, who is patron of the Rugby Football Union, said she enjoyed playing the sport with all her three children — including her ten-year-old daughter.

“Charlotte is playing rugby, but at home with the family. She isn’t yet at school, and I was asking how many schools are actually incorporating [it]. It’s such a great game, actually, they shouldn’t necessarily need to pigeonhole boys and girls into particular sports too early. Obviously as they get physically stronger … now, if I play at home, I do not want to get tackled by George, but … up to a certain age it’s great. Sports like swimming at school [are] still very much co-ed.”

-The Princess of Wales from The Times

[mckendrickslove]

[vox-anglosphere]

Cleaning the Waterloo Chamber: first, you move 90 feet of furniture

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Mayor LaGuardia and Marian Anderson at a reception in Anderson''s honor, April 16, 1939. Earlier in the year, the Daughters of the American Revolution had refused to let Anderson sing in Constitution Hall in Washington, which they owned, because of her race. The Secretary of the Interior, with President Roosevelt's blessing, then invited her to sing at the Lincoln Memorial, which she did on April 9 (Easter Sunday) before 75,000 people and a radio audience of millions.

Photo: Everett/Fine Art America

[vikkates]

January 25, 2023: King Felipe and Queen Letizia host a diplomatic corps reception at the Royal Palace in Madrid.

[terrence-silver]

What do you think Terry and Beloved’s wedding ceremony/reception would look like?

Keep in mind that while the tables may be set for a whole posse of people and there is plush seating galore:

Tens of thousands of dollars worth of decor.

Meticulously put together, import flowers. Not a stem out of place.

Arrangements that cost a literal fortune.

Some coveted location that costs a literal wealth to rent.

With the finest dining, food, desserts, cake and entrees.

Terry wants this moment to be selfishly his and his beloved's in spite of all this luxury, pomp, circumstance and monogrammed commissioned handkerchiefs embroidered in actual silver thread for all we know (and well over a million dollars spent just on aesthetics alone, if need be). And so, they're mostly there alone, not counting whatever witnesses, a group of handpicked, award-winning photographers who will go through hell trying to appease Mr. Silver's very specific vision, officiators and lawyers he absolutely must have there. Man is rich (and possessive) enough not to invite anyone and still go all out.