Meeting #2 with Joe Sola, Wedding Officiant
It already feels as if a fog has lifted regarding the role Joe will play, and its only our second conversation. It feels slightly useless to me now that I spend any time worrying about things like the coming together of the aesthetics, the officiant's interaction with the couple and the guests, when/where the dinner is and the flow of the day. I chose all of these artists for a reason and I admire and trust them - I pleasantly reminded myself of that while talking to Joe. He pulled open the dark curtains in my brain by simply saying that he would work between and around the other artist's ideas - it will be a part of his work to play off of the structure we create for him. In other words, it doesn't matter where the table/s are and how the guests move through the space and what the timing is like - Joe will be privy to all the relevant conversations about these things over the months ahead; his subsequent ideas/words will be the glue that binds it all together. But to put it simply, his role will be how to structure the monologue/dialogue with Jon and Liz and the guests.
Every time we meet something else will become clear. This process is certainly not boring.
Also this same evening, over a lovely glass of wine, Joe, Tif and I had the pleasure of meeting Linda Williamson, a freelance writer who is interested in the machinations of Get Hubbied, perhaps enough to write about it. Her questions about this project's process, its origins and its eventuality, and then my resulting answers served to underscore my own interest in the whole thing and belief in its ability to captivate, entertain and communicate.
PS - My multi-talented friend Tif is back from Denmark and has agreed to help me this month with the project. Everyone will benefit from this!