Name: RogueSlytherin (Signed) · Date: 18 Feb 2022 02:27 AM · For: Wedding Day

Hey There! Here for the Space Race :D 

This is such a fun and endearing drabble! This kind of story always makes me so excited because they are always so inventive. Telling a story in so few words, but still being able to create a vivid picture in someone's mind - awesome awesome job! 

I love that you really expressed the idea of age and almost nostaglia with the way the dress has aged and the humor at the end is so cheeky! XD

I also really like the voice of this story, I'm not sure if it was intended or if there was a specific sort of 'You' this was written with in mind, but I like that it took on that tone. It almost sounds like a daughter explaining the day to a parent who couldn't be there or had passed on. 

 

- Jacquelin

Name: HufflepuffBookworm1990 (Signed) · Date: 22 Mar 2021 03:46 AM · For: Wedding Day

Hey Tasha,

I didn't realize this was OF at first. I liked it just the same though. I felt all the emotion.

I always liked the thought of wearing an heirloom dress. I love the pendant it sounds so pretty and blue.

I hope the tiara brings her luck.

I also love the earrings too.

The last line was funny too. 

Name: Noelle Zingarella (Signed) · Date: 21 May 2020 01:07 AM · For: Wedding Day

Hi Tasha! I’m here because I want to be :D

 

This drabble is so adorable! I really liked the simplicity with which the bride is reminiscing about what she wore on her wedding day. There’s something so special about an heirloom wedding dress—it speaks to an intense connection to family and to the original owner of the dress in particular. It doesn’t matter that it’s yellowed with age—it’s only become more singular and special.

 

 The jewelry she wore makes me think she has fine classic taste, and the way she ruefully pointed out that she didn’t show too much cleavage made me smile. I wondered if she was worried about putting her listener at ease, or if she was actually sort of amused by the whole thing.

 

I hope the borrowed tiara brought her lots of luck—and the blue of the bridesmaid’s dresses and the ribbons sounds like a dreamy summer color. I don’t think she needed the penny at all, and it probably would have been uncomfortable to walk the whole time.

 

Nice work on this sweet story!

 

Yours,

Noelle

Name: MuggleMaybe (Signed) · Date: 13 Sep 2019 12:59 AM · For: Wedding Day

Hi Tasha!

 

I nominated this for best drabble, but I never got around to reviewing it. Shame on me!

 

I think this story is very clever, and reveals a lot in so few words.

 

There's a humilty to the something white, and an honesty. White turns over time into something else. But the history of the object matters more than the color, really.

 

The line about not showing cleavage made me laugh. It's almost like, a southern belle vibe? Like, trust me, I'm a lady.

 

Th borrowed tiarra makes me think of that quote "real queens fix each others crowns." We can't be our best without good friends <3 

 

The something blue makes me think about how much planning must have gone into this wedding. When I stop and think about it, weddings really re amazingly elaborate. So much care and hope invested.

 

And then the last one, and lucky penny. Oh my gosh, Tasha! I love this part! Because at the end of the day, the wedding is about the marraige, and I love how this is cute and silly, but also sort of hints at the ominous unknown that lies ahead. Because no matter how the wedding goes, the marraige must strive to last a lifetime. It just gives me this feeling of a monster lurking and maybe i'm weird but I really enjoy that.

 

You really have a knack for drabbles!

 

xoxo Renee

Name: nott theodore (Signed) · Date: 08 Sep 2019 05:47 PM · For: Wedding Day

Hi Tasha!  Here for the HC opener!

 

I didn't realise that you'd posted OF but this was such a cute drabble, and I really enjoyed reading it!  I thought it was very cleverly written and I'm impressed with the way that you managed to convey so much information about the protagonist in so few words.  You captured her voice really well, and I'm intrigued about her character - the twist at the end of this story has made me want to read more about her and find out what happened next.

 

Using the different lines of the poem as sort of paragraph headings was really effective - it broke up the drabble into very clear sections but it also shaped the way that the protagonist was reminiscing about her wedding day, which I thought worked really well.  The details that we got about her wedding as a result of that format helped to build up this interesting picture about the bride and what had been important to her on her big day.  I really loved the details about her wearing her grandmother's wedding dress, and that she borrowed a tiara from her best friend because she hoped it would bring her the same luck and happiness her friend had in marriage.  They were two little hints at the bigger picture of her life and I thought you incorporated them really well into a story so focused on her wedding day.

 

I'd actually never heard the last line of the rhyme, so I liked the way that you introduced that as a twist at the end, with the bride as surprised as the reader (mostly) to hear that the penny was supposed to be part of it.  The question at the end introduced a sense of panic and worry, as well as humour, and I think that's why I want to know whether her non-completion of the superstition had an effect or not.  If you write more about this bride then I'd definitely love to read it!

 

Sian :)

Name: Oregonian (Signed) · Date: 20 May 2019 06:30 PM · For: Wedding Day

Hi Tasha,

 

I'll write  a couple of reviews for our review swap, since these recent pieces are all kind of short.

 

This is so cute. The printed format is good -- each of the well known categories written as a little title, followed by a sentence or two of description of the item with a bit of commentary that helps bring into focus not only the wedding outfit but also the personality of the bride.

 

And then it ends with a little twist (that's hard to do in a word-limited drabble) that provides a bit of humor and a smile on the lips of the reader.  It refers to the fact that when we recite the old formula of "Something, old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue," we often leave off the final item, the coin in the shoe.

 

I don't know if very many people who are aware of the line about the coin actually do put a coin in their shoe -- it might be uncomfortable to walk on.  But I believe that in the far olden days in England, where all these items probably had some sort of good luck symbolism, the final line was "...and a silver sixpence in her shoe."  I'm just guessing that that would have been a token to ensure financial wealth in the marriage, since in those days a silver sixpence would have been worth a lot of money, sufficiently vauable to endure the pain of walking on it!  

 

But alas, we don't have silver sixpences here in America nowadays; in fact, it would be hard to get your hands on any coin actually made of silver.  So maybe it doesn't matter, in the end, that this bride forgot her lucky penny.  :)

 

 

 

A cute drabble and a clever idea.  Thank you for writing. 

 

Vicki