The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 10.1930  Tuesday, 9 November 1999.

From:           Ronald Benoit <
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Date:           Monday, 8 Nov 1999 12:13:16 -0500
Subject:        The Wedding Proposal Has Taken Place

I want to thank everyone for their suggestions for Shakespearean-type
speeches to make for my wedding proposal.  I read through and considered
all of them and, in the end I decided to use my own words with which to
ask her.

Here's what happened:

I rode across a center green at my condo complex to my back porch on top
of a beautiful white horse.  I wore a White Prince's costume (hand sewn,
immaculate) and was followed by my squire, two Renaissance girls and 14
costumed minstrel singers from a local high school.  Of course,
following all that were my family and friends, many of whom were also in
costume - there were 80-90 of us with me at the point.  My girlfriend
(now fianc