A wedding

This weekend, we celebrated the wedding of two very lovely friends in a warm, cozy home in Mount Pleasant, one of my favorite neighborhoods in the District.  It was a small gathering of friends. The ceremony was informal, interactive, and quite funny.  At one point in the ceremony, one of the bride's long-time friends, a foreign exchange student from Germany who had stayed with her family years and years ago, brought out a roll of ribbon and performed a German ritual on the exchange of the rings.