Chapter 12: Brandon - A Wedding Celebration

Chapter 12 Deep Dive

Outline:

2nd week of September, Brandon joins brothers in upper field to plant crops
Lower field Rodrick and his brothers
Much showing off into who is better
Rick tries to rile them up but Pip then Brandon an then Ed and Thomas start laughing so they lose
When done with planting
Rodrick goes to Vilberg for mead for Rick's wedding - his guest list is reduced
Wedding just small band of Hobsons and Marshams
Rodrick leaves Brandon at the forge
Week before Rick's wedding all the lads return to farm (Hart & Dec from other farms, Thoimas from brother Christopher, Brandon from Kitters)
Scrub the farm down for wedding
Once everything to Rodrick's standard they were all scrubbed down too
Rodrick announces has surprise for them
Pours mead and gives toast to Rick ahead of his wedding tomorrow
Despite Rodrick telling village the wedding is a small affair - half the village shows up anyway
They bring food and ale
Rodrick only accepts it since the people say its for themselves and Rick and Annie
Rodrick asks Brother Christpher to bless the food
Grandmother Sharrow brought honey & herbed wine
Sharrow aunts gave Annie ribbons, flowers, and sewed coin satchlets to her dress
Hobson Aunts and uncles brought roasted pig, bottles of mead, two fluffy lambs, and the deed to half an acre of the neighboring farm
Master kitter brought candelabra he had forged with Brandon’s help
Marshams brought music, more drinks, more food, and deed to a second half an acre
All the guests cheered despite Rick and Annie not saying their vows yet
Rick and Annie are drunk when they finally say their vows
Hart and Dec sing and even get Grandmother Sharrow to sing
Rodrick danced with Annie and Widow Mulvey
Dec and Pip dance with girls and kiss them
Brandon steals several bottles of mead for himself, Thomas, Ed, Dunstan, and Mary
Hart does duet with Aleyth Glissher
Annie hands Aleyth her bouquet
Sharrows and Hobsons stay to help clean
Grandmother Sharrow offers to take younger sons but Rodrick tells them they prepared the croft ahead of time
Annie enters her new home quite pleased
She thanks her new brothers and agrees to a final drink with Rodrick and Rick
Everyone else goes to bed
Brandon wakes up because he has to pee
Rodrick is still awake, in his chair, smoking a pipe
Brandon returns from the privy and see father has been crying
Rodrick thinks of his own wedding and when Rick was born and how Margery would have wanted to be there
Rodrick says he feels like all the time and no time has passed - Brandon might understand when its his own wedding
Brandon doesn't think him marrying would be likely since last son
He doesn't like to think of time when he wouldn't live on the farm
Brandon thinks of his life in 8-10 years time
Will he still be with the Kitters? He likes Dunstan but the forge and marrying a Kitter girl would not make him happy
He could go out to other farms like his uncles and Dec and Hart have and save up for his own farm
He images his own farm years from now with Mary cooking dinner