A glorious weekend in An Tir.

Good day to you all, far too long since we've had an actual honest to goodness chat. Suppose I should fix that.

Lets start with this weekend past.. Many of you already know about this, but there are those who do not, and its to you and any comers after that speak.

Zahrah and I are officially engaged, I proposed on 10/07/06 before the Baron and Baroness of Dragons Laire, and the gathered people of An Tir and Dragons Laire at 'Last Chance Tourney'. As it turns out their Excellencies were engaged in the same fashion, which truly explains his willingness to make it happen in court.

Zahrah had just become Lady Zahrah, having been awarded an 'Award of Arms', becoming an Armiger of An Tir in her own right, and while she was still recovering from this surprise I came forth and asked their Excellencies permission to request their subjects hand. Having recieved their blessing, I turned to the populace, and told them how much inspiration I'd found in Dragons Laire, but that the greatest of those inspirations was the lady herself. Fatima Al-Zahrah bint Khalid. Most of you know her as Elengil, or Andrea, or even Zahrah. She's always been Zahrah to me, and always will be.

I knelt and told her that I came with no title, no lands, just me, all I had to offer was forever hers to keep. I was a bit concerned when she turned to her Excellecy Brigid, and asked 'Whaddya think?'. I can only be grateful to the people of An Tir as they cheered her on 'Say Yes! Say Yes!'.. I am happy to announce that she did just that.

As I was beginning to rise, her Excellency turned to me and said 'Aodhan... About that title? I can help you with that.. Take a knee." And I did, only to recieve, completely unexpectedly, my own AoA. We are now Lord Aodhan, and Lady Zahrah. A good day was only made better, to be followed by an excellent feast. For those of you who have never sampled the food of the Dragons Laire Culinary guild... GET TO ONE OF THEIR FEASTS. I have rarely eaten better (except for that my lady makes of course).


So this is the tale of our happy weekend, though I am sad to announce that there are no pictures, the memories live on in the telling. Many congratulations were recieved, and we couldn't have been happier to recieve them.

Since I Know you'll ask.. The wedding is the first weekend in June of next year, at June Faire. The very event at which we met.